India putting as "A"

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High-tec innovations are putting INDIA on the "A" list:
Super computers and india had never really been synonymous. The best the country could offer till now was the centre for development of advanced computing's PARAM series, of which the fastest was padma with the speed of one teraflop or one trillion operations per second.Nevertheless, it still ranked a lonely 171 on the top 500 list of the world's fastest computer's in 2003.Recently,how ever, the TATA -Owned computational research laboratories in pune has installed a super computer system named Eka that managed to achieve a speed of 117.9 teraflops.

This makes it not only the fourth fastest machine of its kind in the world but the fastest one in Asia.built in a little less than 2 years at a cost of approxmaitly $30 million.Eka has the distinction of being the first supercomputer to have been developed totally by a corporation without any government help,using mainly off-the shelf components.Given its spectaculear speed.it can be used for a variety of tasks-including long-range weather forecasting ,financial modelling ,data mining, animation, drug discovery and computing intensive task like oil and gas exploration.Its operation time can also be sold commerically. Market research firms forecast that spending on the high performance computing market will rise from over $10 billion worldwide in 2006 to $14.3 billion by 2010.

The development also propels INDIA in to a different leaguealtogether. Far from being labelled "CYBER COOLIES" of the IT world who carry out only back end work in "BPO's" call centres and out sourcing offices ,it demonstrate's how the nation is steadily beginning to climb up the value chain. What's more,its happening in other fields too.For example the country's largest CAR maker Maruthi also revealed its plans for unveiling A-star, its brand new concept car a prototype which basically showcases innovation in styling,engineering and technology.

After being displayed at the ninth edition of Auto expo in the capital in janaury 2008,its expected to make the rounds in all major expos across the world before going in to production. That's not only a long way off from the day's of being dumped with obsolete models of ambassadors and fiats but vastly different from India being perceived as a srcewdriver nation with a cheap work force assembling auto mobiles originally designed by others. These are great trends gaining momentum by the day.

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