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    IAC-1 to be floated on August 12 : Cochin Shipyard

    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...
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    India will have 'super-supercomputer' by 2017

    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
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    India will have 'super-supercomputer' by 2017

    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
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    Afghan Students in trouble in Indian universities

    ive always hated that university....n this gives me one more reason to hate it....
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    To prep against a massive asteroid strike, NASA wants India's help

    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...
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    Emcore wins $22 million Indian space contract

    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). The specialist in...
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    Global Tech Companies Bet Big on India

    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...
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    4 supercomputers from India in world's fastest 100

    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...
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    4 supercomputers from India in world's fastest 100

    yup....true...India has had very few forward thinking leaders since independence....most of them meddle only with current affairs
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    4 supercomputers from India in world's fastest 100

    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....
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    4 supercomputers from India in world's fastest 100

    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.... as...
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    India: Thousands dead due to floods in Uttarakhand, 70,000 missing

    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...
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    4 supercomputers from India in world's fastest 100

    well unfortunately...yes...this govt does fail to have a long term vision....completely agreed on this point didnt really understand your first sentence
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    Countdown to launch India’s own GPS begins

    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...
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    4 supercomputers from India in world's fastest 100

    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...
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    India will have 'super-supercomputer' by 2017

    *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??
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    India Developing, but still a long way to go

    you can see this tower exactly before entering the airport
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    4 supercomputers from India in world's fastest 100

    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
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    Iran Plans to Send Astronauts into Space for Space Biology Studies

    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...
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    4 supercomputers from India in world's fastest 100

    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
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