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WOW! Best among the series. As a CS engineer I like computer. Currently C-DAC developing Petaflop supercomputers. First one will be ready by 2012. It will revolutionize India's capabilities in hi tech, atomic, space, weather and defence areas. :yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:


According to C-DAC director: "We will compete with the Americans in this supercomputing technology and offer it at a cheaper rate for the world market,” scientist SP Dixit, director of C-Dac and principal investigator of high performance computing centre, leading the 150 team of scientists, said.

With petaflop technology, the supercomputer can perform 100 lakh crore mathematical calculations per second, Joseph said. C-Dac’s latest PARAM Yuva supercomputer can calculate one lakh crore calculations per second.


Jai Ho!!!!!
 
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good work xinix...can you tell more about 2012 Petaflop computers ?
 
The other interesting aside is that in 1988, the Russians had made an offer of a supercomputer to India. However, the Indian team that visited Russia was not too impressed with the level of hardware etc. and finally India did not buy the supercomputers from Russia. So, India did not become dependent on the Russian technology. Russians themselves have now been importing the Indian supercomputers since early nineties.

The last issue is that we have a tendency to become relaxed, when the ban gets lifted or the export regulations become little lighter. For example, in 1991-93, when there was some relaxation from the United States, questions were being asked as to whether India should invest further in supercomputers at all.

Moral of story - India failed to create solid base in Aviation/aircraft R&D during last 40 years because Russian imports were available easily and we got relaxed.

By the way, USA has refused to share semiconductor fab technology just recently and India got angry again. Get ready for more feel threads.
 
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Whatever Xinix might be doing and his thread titles are certainly kind of derogatory; but the machines are awesome.

What is Tata using EKA for?
 
Dear Valued Pakistani Members,

I Dont intend to offend any one here.
I am simply trying to give u all a glimpse of what India has gained WITHOUT EVEN ONCE USING DELIBERATE NAMES OF ANY HOSTILE NATION.

I am an Engineer who loves Technology I dont want to Fire Guns or Create a situation in a "VERSES" Discussion that Leads to all Ill Words.

I want to Show Indian Might : Yes
I want to Show Pakistans Deficit : NO , I dont have to, i Dont Intend it to.

My feeling is the same like u when ...

You show photos from ur nation....
You Let us see those awesome f16 and JF17 Pics...
You Share Pics from ur Common streets...

I am doing the same things.. picking stuff from Technology Street and Showing u "My Technological Super Power - India"


XiNiX,

you are making arrogant posts these days and I am kind thinking how insecure you feel that you have to address even minor issues to arouse a sense of superiority upon Pakistan.

I have no Intention to put Pakistan anywhere mate.
All the weapons/technology i showed WILL BE USED AGAINST ANY HOSTILE NATION , NOT Only Pakistan.

I Just want to Educate My Fellow Country men and Your Countrymen about India's Technology Edge.

man what is wrong with this guy ive been seeing feel this and might that threads all over pdf lol

I have SERIOUSLY Read the Rules of PDF. I have Violated No Law.
Neither i said anything like "Going To Moon on a Su MKI" ....

I guess u Realised what i Intended you to.
Stay Tuned.. u'll Like more of These.


Well Xinx i hate to say this but your standards are extremely low.Posting such threads to gain a sense of Superiority over a 10 times smaller enemy.

It would be better if you would post these things in a Chinese Forum.They would give you appropriate reply.

In This Forum, we have many Chinese as well.
I anly meant to make u all understand that India is a technology Giant and Not "Crappy" , "Rubbish" as Mostly suggested... But I HAVE INSURED THAT THE THREADS DONT INCLUDE ANY THING AGAINST A PARTICULAR NATION .

Just like if You Show off F16s, Its Meant for Any Enemy of Pakistan... My Gadgets are NOT directed towards pakistan Alone.

Plus, India is a democracy.. so ur valuable opinion of "my low quality posts" surely counts as per our system.. But over 70 Thanks in 4 Threads Say otherwise.

Plz Dont be Offended,
I am NOT Telling u That India is Superior .. I am Just telling you what India Have...

XiNix, every title you put something like this, silly !!

"Feel The Might :: The Indian SAMs"
"Feel The Depth : Indian Radar Systems"
"Feel The Dominance : Indian Spy Satellites"
"Feel The Might : Indian Defence Review - 2009"
"Feel The IT Muscle : Indian SuperComputers "
etc.


:rofl:

Atleast you remembered those Silly Titles ... My Purpose is Solved.

Come on Mate.. Enjoy the "Troll Free".. "FlameLess" Content.
 
I am fortunate to have seen Param 10000 and met Dr Vijay P. Bhatkar 5 times in my life.

Ah.. Yes.. Very Fortunately i have actually Worked on It..... Though i had no idea what i could use it for

My Father was Incharge of the PARAM Facility when it was getting Installed at one of the NITs and It was just amazing..

As far as I remember ( i was too young at that time ) .. a Satellite Image of The City was Being Analysed by M.Tech/PhD Scholars using PARAM.. perhaps some Urban Development Project was there.

We used to even Dine with the pune Engineers and Guess what.. since my Mumma was away we used to cook food together.. as They didnt liked the Food at Hotels.

I am really Lucky to Pose have my personal PARAM pics.. They are Simply Awesome.

Infact at the NIT , i am referring to we have Both .. PARAM 8000 and PARAM 10000.
 
Geithner, US monetary maven, says India's economic policy is admirable

WASHINGTON: The most striking aspect about Timorthy Geithner as he walks into the room is how relaxed he looks, considering he carries the weight of the US – and pretty much the world's – economy on his shoulders. Perhaps that should have been "youthful shoulders." Geithner at 47 looks 32, fellow monetary maven Ken Duberstein once complained, adding that "you need to have in these compelling times gray hair and gravitas. It's not that he's not qualified; it's how he looks." His secret service code-name is fencing master, and his fitness and agility (he's said to be top notch in tennis, basketball, windsurfing, and snowboarding among other sports) is the envy of Washington's political salons and power corridors.

Indeed, from the time he took over as US Treasury Secretary in January 2009, the knives have been out for Tim Geithner. Congress, speaking for Main Street, accuses him of coddling Wall Street. Wall Street accuses him of abetting socialism. "Yet when the history books are written," Atlantic magazine said in a recent assessment, "Geithner will be recognized as Barack Obama's key lieutenant in the struggle to right the economy and fix the finance system."

Geithner himself is blasé about being on what many regard as the burning deck, having famously – and drily – remarked once that he "lives for such crises." On this particular spring afternoon he's meeting four Indian correspondents at the historic Treasury Department building ahead of his visit to India next week, Geithner has reason to be pleased. The US economy is finally showing a small uptick, adding 163,000 jobs in March. One of the oldest wings of the executive (The Dept of Treasury was established in 1779) is pulling its weight, and pundits are starting to extol the man they vilified only a few months earlier as a lackey of capitalism for pulling the US out of a trough, with the Treasury at the center of the grand rescue.

Geithner, who is the 75th Treasury Secretary, is as proximate to Obama (physically too, the Treasury Building is next to the White House) as his forbear Alexander Hamilton was to George Washington -- for more than one reason. Both share an NGO legacy. During the early 1980s, Geithner's father Peter Geithner oversaw Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia developed by Ann Dunham Soetoro, President Barack Obama's mother. Prior to that, Geithner Sr headed the Ford Foundation operations in India, which led to a toddler Tim spending his early years in New Delhi, where he had a crack at cricket but remained true to baseball.

He's returned to India a few times thereafter as he worked his way through Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Washington's lobbyists' lane K Street, Wall Street, and the government, and retains an unvarnished respect for New Delhi, praising its "steady hand" and steely resolve in meeting the economic downturn that shook much of the world. "I have huge admiration for India's policies in the economic, financial (sector) ... for what they have accomplished in dealing with this difficult time," he said in an interview. "One reason I am going to India is to get a better sense of what is happening there -- both in the economy and the broaden reform process in the financial sector and elsewhere. As always I am going to make sure that the leaders in Indian get to understand directly how we are managing our challenges here," he said. US learning economic lessons from India – who would have thunk?

The visit of a US Treasury Secretary to India may not seem as consequential as that of a Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) or Defense Secretary (Bob Gates), but it has the virtue of being totally delinked from AfPak issues, since those two countries are insignificant in the Treasury scheme of things. Instead, the visit seals India's hyphenation with China at least insofar as economic sweepstakes go. Geithner's main agenda in New Delhi is to launch the new US-India Economic and Financial Partnership, along with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, along the same lines as the one Washington has with Beijing.

But any comparison between the two Asian giants stops right there – and it's not because of the disparity in their economic clout that drives many Indians to despair. Instead, Geithner suggests, it is the level of comfort US has with India's transparency and fairness, compared with China, with whom Washington has been on the verge of an ugly spat over currency exchange rate manipulation. "The differences are mostly defined by the differences in our economies," Geithner said cautiously, reluctant to be drawn into a discussion on China. "We're not going to be talking in India about the exchange rate regime." India, he says, is "becoming more open, runs a flexible exchange rate regime. Its basic pattern in growth has been less export dependent, oriented over time. Different economy, different structure, different choices."

It's an agreeable consonance that pleases Washington, which is otherwise uncomfortable with some of India's diplomatic and political choices (vis-à-vis AfPak and Iran). But Geithner insists Obama has a "deep commitment" to strengthening the relationship with New Delhi and a "deep appreciation" for the challenges India is facing. That's the message, he says, that he will be bringing -- to the place where he first swung a bat.

Geithner, US monetary maven, says India's economic policy is admirable - US - World - The Times of India
 
India market soars for business jet makers

IANS, Apr 4, 2010, 12.11pm IST
NEW DELHI: With the number of billionaires and high net worth individuals in India growing, business jet makers are intensifying efforts to sell their aircraft in India which industry sources say will need over 250 aircraft in the next 10 years.

"We are very optimistic about India. We have good business here as India is an expanding market," said Roger Sperry, vice president, sales, of the US-based Gulfstream.

"Earlier most of our sales were in the US, but now at least 60 percent of our sales are outside. We have built new facilities for the production of our latest offerings," Jerry said.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics. It had a record sale of 250 business jets in 2008 when recession spread worldwide. It is looking to increase its presence in the Asian market.

"Asia is the first to recover from recession. We are meeting with prospective customers," Jerry had told IANS during the recent Hyderabad Air show.

Another player in the growing segment is Canada-based Bombardier. Its market forecast said that 1,030 deliveries will take place in the next 10 years (2009-18).

And this includes 250 business jets for India and 300 for China.

"India represents tremendous opportunity for business aviation," Avid Dixon, Bombardier's regional vice president, sales (Asia Pacific), told IANS.

Bombardier has a 24 percent market share in the region. It displayed Learjet 60 XR, Challenger 850 and Global 5000 business jets at the Hyderabad air show.

An Ernst & Young report had earlier said India forms 12 per cent of the worldwide business jets market, quoting the Brazilian executive jet manufacturer Embraer. The report said the demand for private or business jets in India is expected to grow at 50 per cent on an annual basis over the next few years.

Embraer, which has been showcasing its new mid-size jet, Legacy 500, in the country, is aiming to garner $1 billion by selling executive jets in the next 10 years.

Aviation industry reports say the demand for business jet is expected to go up by 14 percent a year in the next 10 years.

Experts say the main reason for the rise in demand is that a business aircraft is no more seen as a luxury but a tool for increased productivity. Private or business jets allow business leaders to use their time more productively.

And that's why they say the Tata Group entered the space to start aircraft charter and fractional ownership programmes in the country and picked up a stake in BJETS - a Singapore- and Mumbai-based personal aviation provider in 2008.

According to Gulfstream, India's present share of business jets fleet is less than one percent - 123 aircraft - of the 18,000 business jets worldwide.

The jet maker currently offers back-up support to its customers through Air Works, a maintenance, repair and overhauling (MRO) company in India.

The company will roll out by 2012 a new business jet, G650, which it says will be the biggest, fastest, longest range purpose-built business jet.

"We have successfully completed its first voyage aloft on Nov 25 last year and it is due to enter service in 2012. G650 can fly 51,000 ft and has a range of 7,000 nautical miles," said

India market soars for business jet makers - India Business - Biz - The Times of India
 
Nano has a Smooth Ride in first year

Tata Motors now eyes the US, European and African markets.
Ashok Raghunath Vichare's house in a quiet corner of suburban Mumbai is still abuzz with activity -camera flashes, television bytes, flurry of questions and curious journalists.

"People are flying thousands of kilometers just to talk to me. People from Australia, the US, France and Korea have visted my home. If it weren't for the Nano, who would have known me", asks the 56-year-old government servant and the first buyer of the world's cheapest car.

While Nano has brought unprecedented fame to the Vichares, it has revolutionised travel for more than 25,000 others - out of the 100,000 people selected through a ballot to be the first recipients of the car - till date.

To speed up delivery, the company is ramping up production at two manufacturing plants in Uttarakhand and Gujarat. It is hopeful of completing the delivery process (for 100,000 cars) and possibly reopen bookings well before the end of this year.

Company officials say the new Sanand plant in Gujarat, shifted out of Singur in West Bengal, with a capacity of 500,000 units per annum will start commercial operations later this month. The Pantnagar plant in Uttarakhand has the capacity to produce 70,000 units annually.

The Nano — cheaper by about 57 per cent to the nearest competitor, Maruti Alto, in the first 45 days of booking - is expected to fetch a resurgent demand this time too.

The demand for cheap and personal transport in India made some of the world's biggest and veteran car makers scamper to their drawing boards in an attempt to replicate the feat achieved by Tata Motors.

While some, like Korea's biggest automotive brand Hyundai, are striving to roll out a Rs 2,00,000 car that will have an engine capacity of less than 800cc, Bajaj-Renault-Nissan alliance suffered a setback following differences over the positioning of their low-cost car.

As many as six international auto companies -- General Motors, Nissan, Fiat, Hyundai, Volkswagen and Bajaj Auto -- are in the race to build mini cars to rival Nano in terms of pricing and quality.

Nano is expected to have its first competitor in the second half of next year when Hyundai's low-cost car hits the market, followed by Bajaj's small car in 2012.

Tata Motors is facing a tough challenge in terms of pricing. While the concept behind the car revolves around low-cost manufacturing, surging raw material prices has put added pressure on the company. Industry experts say that Tata Motors will have to make an upward revision in prices when bookings reopen later this year.

To add to its woes, the manufacturers faced negative publicity on safety issues — last year and early this year — with five Nanos reportedly catching fire.

The company was prompt to take action against the supplier of the electrical switch — believed to be responsible for the initial defect. However, when a moving Nano burst into flames late last month, company offcials had to little to say.

"We are investigating the matter" is all that Prakash M Telang, managing director, India operations, Tata Motors, said.

Several of the more than 200,000 applicants cancelled their bookings due to the prolonged period of delivery. Some customers sold their allotments at a premium. The car has also lost its premium tag in the used car market following the fire incidents. Nano commanded a premium of 20-25 per cent barely three months back but prices have now cooled to the on-road price.

Hurdles such as these, however, have not deterred the company in taking the people's car overseas to developed markets such the United States and Europe and Africa. Tata Motors is gearing up to launch the European version of Nano (Nano Europa) next year.

Nano has a Smooth Ride in first year
 
Develop fuel efficient cars for affluent Indians: Obama

Lalit K Jha/PTI / Washington April 03, 2010, 13:24 IST
Arguing that more Indians are interested in buying cars due to their rising living standards, President Barack Obama has emphasised the need to develop fuel efficient vehicles to overcome the possible acute shortage of oil.

During a discussion on jobs and economy in Charlotte in North Carolina, Obama said America should make sure that such cars are made in the US.

"Think about it. China, if they get even half of the number of cars per capita, per population, that we have right now. There are a lot of folks in India. And their standards of living are all starting to rise and they're all starting to be interested in buying cars," Obama said.

"The fact of the matter is, is that if they even approach the amount of car ownership that we have, oil will run out very quickly and on the way, prices will just spike up naturally, no matter what we do," he said.

Obama said there was a huge need to increase fuel efficiency and that is why he raised the national fuel efficiency standard.

"But, frankly, even with us raising those standards, I think consumers just in terms of their pocketbook interests are going to be even more interested in buying hybrids and electric cars," he said.

Obama said America should make sure that those cars are made in the United States and said the second thing the country needs to do is to create the electricity grid, also known as the smart grid.

"We have got kind of a creaky infrastructure when it comes to electricity, and that's one of the major investments that we want to start making. And that, by the way, is an investment that only government, working with the private sector, can help to make," he added.

"We are going to have to help create that infrastructure, just like broadband lines, just like a whole bunch of basic 21st century infrastructure, so we've got the platform in order to succeed and compete economically.

"That's what the Chinese are doing. That's what the Indians are doing. That's what the Germans are doing. That's what the United States is going to have to do," Obama said.

Develop fuel efficient cars for affluent Indians: Obama
 
'Living in India as a kid is great gift to me'

Set to embark on his maiden official visit to India next week, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says it was a "great gift" for him to have lived in New Delhi for five years during his childhood, where he learnt to play cricket.

"It was a great gift to me and a great gift to any American...To be exposed to India at an early stage," Geithner told a group of Indian reporters here.

Geithner lived in India from 1968-1973 when his father was the Deputy Resident Representative for the Ford foundation in New Delhi.

"I went to AIS (American International School), from second to sixth grade. I lived in Friends Colony," Geithner said.

"I grew up with my parents friends who were people involved in development at a time when it was a great era of optimism and development," he said, vividly recollecting his life in New Delhi.

The Treasury Secretary said "as a young child I was able to see how much of India lives to not just in extreme poverty but in a country with India's great opened dynamism tradition is a great gift for an American".

"To watch and see how the impact America had on the world for good and sometimes not so good is a great gift to have as a young kid," he said.

Geithner says it is in New Delhi that he learnt to play cricket and baseball.

"I was lucky, I learnt not just to play cricket but I learnt to play baseball," he said. He added that he no longer plays cricket.

After he left India in 1973, Geithner had been to India four times – all on official or business trip.

"I have not spent very much time there and I have not travelled extensively since then," he said.

'Living in India as a kid is great gift to me'
 
'India's economic dynamism opens door for UAE firms'

2010-04-03 21:20:00
3, (IANS) The economic dynamism of India opens door for the investors from United Arab Emirates, Dubai Export Development Coroporation chief Saed Al Awadi said Saturday.

'India is currently Dubai's major trading partner with over 40 percent of the emirate's exports going to the country. The economic and entrepreneurial dynamism in India opens door for our firms not only to consider entering the market if they have not already done so, but also to extend their reach,' Al Awadi said.

Factors that have led to India becoming a target export market is the opening up of its economy, including the rapid growth of the middle class segment which is a major attraction for exporters due to its increasing size and purchasing power, he said at a seminar on 'Exporting Opportunities in India'.

The seminar organised by the Dubai Export Development Corporation (EDC) was attended by the representatives of more than 40 UAE companies, WAM news agency reported.

Sanjay Verma, Consul General of India, A.J. Vidiaysagar, chief executive officer of State Bank of India Dubai Branch, and Navin Kapoor, managing director of Xpertise Unlimited, were also present on the occasion.

'India's economic dynamism opens door for UAE firms'
 
India Inc's M&A deal tally hits $19 billion so far this year

NEW DELHI: Driven by Bharti Airtel's $10.7- billion takeover deal for the African assets of Kuwait's Zain Telecom, the total value of merger and
acquisition deals in the country in the first quarter of 2010 has nearly quadrupled to a whopping $19 billion.

According to VCCEdge, the financial research platform of VCCircle, the value of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in India rose to $19.20 billion in the first quarter of this year, up from $5.19 billion a year ago.

The number of domestic transactions doubled from 39 deals worth $2.27 billion in Q1 of 2009 to 80 deals worth $4.06 billion in the same period of this year, VCCEdge said.

Further, there were 51 outbound deals in the period under consideration, while the figure stood at 24 a year ago. In terms of value, the increase was more than seven times, primarily due to the Bharti - Zain deal.

The number of inbound deals also rose to 29 in first three months of 2010 from 24 deals in the same period of 2009.

Going forward, the value and volume of Indian M&A activity is likely to increase as investor confidence and liquidity returns to the market.

"Strategic investors will try to take advantage of lower valuations in the midst of the crisis and strengthen their position across various sectors," the report said.

A sector wise analysis shows that telecommunication services, energy and healthcare were the most targeted sectors as these segments attracted deals worth $14.03 billion, $1.17 billion and $961 million respectively.

Big ticket deals dominated the M&A space this year as large deals (worth $100 million and above) accounted for as much as 90 per cent of total capital invested in the first quarter this year.

The top two deals in the first three months of this year were the $10.7-billion acquisition of Zain's African operations by Bharti Airtel, followed by the $1.8 billion acquisition of tower assets of Aircel by GTL Infrastructure.

Other major deals in the period under consideration include Fortis Healthcare' $685-million investment in Parkway Holdings, Essar Group's $600 million acquisition of Trinity Coal Corp and Telenor ASA's $433 million stake buy in Unitech Wireless.

The five major deals in the first quarter of this year accounted for over 71 per cent of the total M&A deals, the report added.

India Inc's M&A deal tally hits $19 billion so far this year-Corporate Trends-News By Company-News-The Economic Times
 

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