PARAM 8000 supercomputer
Supercomputador PARAM 8000
- Date
- 1991 · confidence high
- Place
- C-DAC, Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Credited to
- Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (Vijay Bhatkar)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Massively parallel-processing supercomputer with 256 transputer processors, developed after the United States refused to export a Cray. It showed that parallel architecture could compete at low cost.
What it led to
- PARAM series of supercomputers
- high-performance computing for meteorology and science in India