In a recent Interview which appeared in The Hindu Commodore K. Subramaniam, Chairman and Managing Director of Cochin Shipyard has informed that Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) -1 of the Indian Navy will be floated on August 12 by the Union Defence Minister A. K. Antony.
It will be taken...
when the first supercomputer was built by india....indians themselves didnt believe it was a supercomputer coz it was too small...Dr. Vijay Bhatkar went to geneva to standardize that supercomputer....and then every1 started praising
true....but its not hard to make any voice....entering the supercomputing club is not as difficult....mostly ready made chips are procured by india...but yes...electronics industry is an integral part
Saving humanity from a mega-asteroid strike could be the next big effort in co-operation between USA and India.
The American space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is looking to actively co-operate with India on how best to avert the possibility of humans...
The firm's III-V multi-junction solar cells will be deployed to assess commercial geostationary telecommunications and scientific earth observation satellite missions
Emcore Corporation has entered into a supply contract with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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Global technology companies are bullish on business prospects in India but want regulators to accelerate the process of approving their proposals for upgrading communication networks across the country, participants at an IT event here say.
India would face telecommunication system stress...
getting a lil philosophical here...
i think too much of negativity and pessimism has blocked the progress...and mentality of people has become that way...go read any Indian newspaper or watch news...analyse the amount of positive and negative news....u will find that mostly negative news hogs...
well in India they are mostly interpreted as plans for resource allotments (in this case...funds)
and exascale computing is def a project forecasting into the future decades....
its India man....thats my answer....huge claims will always exist...
i am myself a lil skeptical about 2017 time....i guess 2020 seems to be a more realistic deadline....
as far as petaflop capability is concerned...i guess India is gonna gatecrash the club in 2014 by my best estimates....
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monsoons were predicted to enter to reach northern states by 17-18 june....
yea...india needs powerful supercomputers....i have heard chinese supercomputers tell you the number of rain drops and their size with 0.000001 mm accuracy...is it true??
on topic: Uttarakhand floods: Google app to...
well unfortunately...yes...this govt does fail to have a long term vision....completely agreed on this point
didnt really understand your first sentence
well it will completely depend on capability
and the people in india who buy chinese phones mostly are those cheap ones which have basic facilities like calling messaging (and nowadays internet)...
well micromax (which imports from china and rebrands them as "INDIAN") is an exception which has...
now....let me explain you something.....
FUNDS in this context means the amount of money being invested in supercomputing research.....
the funds allocated for research were insufficient to make a world beating supercomputer (which we are talking about here)....
and as far as i...
*yawn*....
on topic: well its kinda unachievable according to present time by 2017....but by 2020 its def within range....only prob with such supercomputers are the cooling tech and power required....for exascale computing....i think nuclear power is the only way out....what say people??
m not aware of any actually....just two weeks back i started following supercomputing in india
and IT industry is way way way wayyyyyy different from electronics industry....
India's IT boom is fuelled by software demand....India's electronics industry is way behind....still trying to catch up
similar statements were made about india and china in 50s, 60s and 70s
there were similar statements forcing budget cuts in american space programme during kennedy's time
and today there are similar statements for indian space programme too....
and IMO all these statements are useless...
nope....the processors n chips are mostly bought from either nvidia or intel (there might be other companies involved but these two are main)
and slowing down is due to lack of funds....thats for sure