{"id":2668,"date":"2023-02-04T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T03:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:03:52","slug":"what-is-the-centre-for-development-of-advanced-computing-c-dac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-centre-for-development-of-advanced-computing-c-dac\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC):<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the<strong> apex research and development wing of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>established<\/strong> in the year <strong>1988<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Its main purpose was to carry out <strong>research and development in Electronics, IT<\/strong> and other associated areas.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>setup to build Supercomputers <\/strong>in context of denial of import of Supercomputers by USA.<\/li>\n<li>C-DAC <strong>build India\u2019s first indigenously built supercomputer Param 8000<\/strong> in 1991.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Param 8000:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>India\u2019s first supercomputer.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>developed by C-DAC in 1991.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>PARAM 8000 is the <strong>first machine in the PARAM supercomputers series<\/strong> built from scratch in 1991.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All the chips and other elements<\/strong> that were used in making of PARAM were <strong>bought from the open domestic market.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Applications<\/strong>:\u00a0 <strong>long-range weather forecasting, remote sensing<\/strong>, drug design and molecular modelling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Microprocessor?<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/money\/topstories\/c-dac-developing-india-s-first-indigenous-microprocessor\/ar-AA175Jko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>C-DAC developing India\u2019s first indigenous microprocessor<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-DAC is the apex research and development wing of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}