About C-DAC Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is the premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas. Different areas of C-DAC, had originated at different times, many of which came out as a result of identification of opportunities. The setting up of C-DAC in 1988 itself was to built Supercomputers in context of denial of import of Supercomputers by USA. Since then C-DAC has been undertaking building of multiple generations of Supercomputer starting from PARAM with 1 GF in 1988. Almost at the same time, C-DAC started building Indian Language Computing Solutions with setting up of GIST group (Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology); National Centre for Software Technology (NCST) set up in 1985 had also initiated work in Indian Language Computing around the same period. Electronic Research and Development Centre of India (ER&DCI) with various constituents starting as adjunct entities of various State Electronic Corporations, had been brought under the hold of Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (now MeitY) in around 1988. They were focusing on various aspects of applied electronics, technology and applications. With the passage of time as a result of creative ecosystem that got set up in C-DAC, more areas such as Health Informatics, etc., got created; while right from the beginning the focus of NCST was on Software Technologies; similarly C-DAC started its education & training activities in 1994 as a spin-off with the passage of time, it grew to a large efforts to meet the growing needs of Indian Industry for finishing schools. C-DAC has today emerged as a premier R&D organization in IT&E (Information Technologies and Electronics) in the country working on strengthening national technological capabilities in the context of global developments in the field and responding to change in the market need in selected foundation areas. In that process, C-DAC represents a unique facet working in close junction with MeitY to realize nation’s policy and pragmatic interventions and initiatives in Information Technology. As an institution for high-end Research and Development (R&D), C-DAC has been at the forefront of the Information Technology (IT) revolution, constantly building capacities in emerging/enabling technologies and innovating and leveraging its expertise, caliber, skill sets to develop and deploy IT products and solutions for different sectors of the economy, as per the mandate of its parent, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India and other stakeholders including funding agencies, collaborators, users and the market-place. Headquaters: C-DAC Innovation Park, Panchavati, Pashan, Pune - 411 008, Maharashtra, India Vision To emerge as the premier R&D institution for the design, development and deployment of world class electronic and IT solutions for economic and human advancement. Mission C-DAC's Mission statement has evolved after deep thought and in consultation with the members of C-DAC. The Mission Statement as defined below, reflects the fabric and character of C-DAC and integrates in the fulfillment of C-DAC's Vision. Expand the frontiers of Electronics and Information Technology. Evolve technology solutions - architectures, systems and standards for nationally important problems. Achieve rapid and effective spread of knowledge by overcoming language barriers through application of technologies. Share experience and know-how to help build advanced competence in the areas of Electronics and Information Technology. Bring benefits of Electronics and Information Technology to society. Utilize the Intellectual Property generated by converting it to business opportunity. Research and Development The primary activity in all centres of C-DAC is research and development in specific areas of information and communication technology and electronics (ICTE). Across all these centres, we span a wide range of topics in ICTE. Broadly, we can divide the R&D activities into two broad classes: the enabling technologies and application verticals. The research activities are usually driven by specific application areas, and hence mostly applied in nature. Based on the vision charted by the parent ministry (MeitY), international trends, Indian requirements, etc CDAC identifies significant thrust areas for focus across the various centres. The thrust areas, at present, are: High Performance Computing including the series of supercomputers, Garuda national grid initiative, development of scientific computing applications on these platforms, and cloud computing. Multi-lingual Computing spanning the entire range from fonts and encoding to speech and language translation, which includes fonts for Indian languages, encoding standards, information extraction and retrieval, machine aided translation, speech recognition and synthesis, etc. Professional Electronics covering electronic devices and embedded systems. This area covers work such as underwater electronics, software radio, ubiquitous computing. Information and Cyber Security including intrusion detection and prevention, malware analysis, cyber forensics, network security, etc. Health Informatics including hospital information systems, electronic medical records, telemedicine, and cancer networks. Software Technologies including e-governance solutions, e-learning technologies, geomatics, open source software, accessibility, etc At present, most of the R&D activities in the various centres fall into these categories. You can gather more information about the specific projects and systems by clicking on these thematic areas on the left of the screen. We are building a more organised, searchable repository of such information - watch this space! As mentioned earlier, most of the R&D work has a driving practical application of importance. Most of the works are, therefore, actually deployed and in use by concerned user agencies - which include the common people of India as well. The research focus has resulted in a number of publications in national and international conferences/journals. Products & Services wide range of products, services and solutions are designed to cater to a large market ranging from health care systems, datawarehousing, multimedia and multilingual technologies, networking solutions to technical consultancy, training and eGovernance solutions. High Performance Computing Quantum Computing AI & Multilingual Computing Strategic Electronics Software Technologies Health Informatics Education and Training Cyber Security and Forensics C-DAC Centers Bengaluru Chennai Delhi Hyderabad Kolkata Mohali Mumbai Noida Patna Pune Thiruvananthapuram Source: C-DAC Official Website