C-DAC: A frontrunner in IT revolution

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

Head of the Organisation: DR. HEMANT DARBARI
Designation: Director General

Services Offered: High Performance, Grid and Cloud Computing (HGCC), Multilingual Computing and Heritage Computing, Professional Electronics, VLSI & Embedded Systems, Cyber Security etc.

C-DAC is responsible to carry out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas. It is the premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). 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.

In order to tackle cyber security and supercomputing needs in India, C-DAC has introduced three new technology solutions. One of the technologies is a new cyber security facility that will be offered as a service to other organizations. The other two are software solutions that will help developers adapt code for newer hardware. The cyber security centre will offer “end-to-end security solutions" and managed security services.