What is the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)?

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About Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC):

It is the apex research and development wing of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
It was established in the year 1988.
Its main purpose was to carry out research and development in Electronics, IT and other associated areas.
It was setup to build Supercomputers in context of denial of import of Supercomputers by USA.
C-DAC build India’s first indigenously built supercomputer Param 8000 in 1991.

Param 8000:

It is India’s first supercomputer.
It was developed by C-DAC in 1991.
PARAM 8000 is the first machine in the PARAM supercomputers series built from scratch in 1991.
All the chips and other elements that were used in making of PARAM were bought from the open domestic market.
Applications: long-range weather forecasting, remote sensing, drug design and molecular modelling.

Q1) What is a Microprocessor?

Microprocessor is a controlling unit of a micro-computer, fabricated on a small chip capable of performing ALU (Arithmetic Logical Unit) operations and communicating with the other devices connected to it.

Source: C-DAC developing India’s first indigenous microprocessor