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R&D Profile of the month

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), was established in March 1988, as a Scientific Society of the Department of Information Technology (formerly, Dept. of Electronics), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (formerly, Ministry of Information Technology), Government of India.

C-DAC went on to develop and supply a range of high performance parallel computers, known as the PARAM series of supercomputers. C-DAC's development activities in this area have been mission-oriented and driven by its mission objectives, both in technology and application developments.

As a result of its pioneering developments, C-DAC evolved the Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology (GIST), with a view to extend the benefits of Information Technology to the vast and diversified multilingual population of India. Use of the GIST range of software and hardware products has led to the proliferation of the use of computers and their applications in all major Indian languages, with hundreds of thousand of users countrywide.

Over the years, C-DAC has diversified its activities to address requirements in various areas. C-DAC’s expertise also extends to other advanced areas of Information Technology, enabling IT-based solutions in areas like Financial and Capital Market simulation and modeling, Network and Internet Software, Healthcare, Real Time Systems, eGovernance, Data Warehousing, Digital Libraries, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.
As part of its development activities

C-DAC has been awarded a number of sponsored R & D projects, by the Department of Information Technology, Department of Official Language (DOL), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Department of Culture, Department of Biotechnology etc.