C-DAC bags award for innovation excellence

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an R&D organization under the Ministry of Communications and IT, govt of India has won the International Data Corporation (IDC) HPC Innovation Excellence Award, at the supercomputing conference 2011 held at Seattle.

The award was announced by the jury, representing the scientific, research, academia and government sectors across the globe, to Goldi Misra, group coordinator and head, HPC solutions group, C-DAC for its HPC product "CHReME" (C-DAC HPC Resource Management Engine).

The award recognizes significant achievements by users of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies in scientific, research, academia and government.

''This recognition by the IDC jury is a shot in the arm for our pioneering efforts to empower scientific research in the country. Our goal is not just to develop new technologies but also to create an environment for the acceptability and usage of the technologies we develop. CHReMe is an ideal tool that is paving the roadmap for HPC in the country, and truly deserves this honor," said Hemant Darbari, executive director, C-DAC, Pune.

CHReME has already been deployed in organizations at national and international level.The product allows the scientists and researchers to utilize their HPC system optimally for their research, without expending their energy towards the detailed workings of HPC thus resulting in more accurate results in their respective domains, said C-DAC.