Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

  • September 19, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Subject – Security

Context – Tamil Nadu Public Department comes under malware attack. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C­DAC) and the Computer Emergency Response Team are trying to retrieve the files.

Concept –

  • The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an Indian autonomous scientific society, operating under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas.
  • The setting up of C-DAC in 1988 itself was to build Supercomputers in the context of denial of import of Supercomputers by the USA.
  • Since then C-DAC has been undertaking the building of multiple generations of Supercomputer starting from PARAM with 1 GF in 1988.

India’s top five Super-Computers are –

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Security