India's first supercomputer

First Indian supercomputer

In the late 1980 ,India  wants to buy Cray Supercomputer  and technology of supercomputer from united state  but US banned the export of Cray Supercomputer because of continuing technology embargoes. Other European countries had developed it at the end of 1980. these countries denied India to deliver the knowledge of creating supercomputer because they know 'india is a under developing country'. 

Indian govt. decided to develop indigenous computing technology. In November 1987  they created the Center for Development of Advanced computing technology (C-DACT) . 

In 1990 Dr. Vijay p. Bhatkar successfully developed a fastest supercomputer. He is an Indian computer scientist, IT leader and educationalist. He is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing

The PARAM 8000 was the first machine in the series and was built from scratch. A prototype was benchmarked at the 1990 Zurich Super-computing Show: it demonstrated that India had the second most powerful, publicly-demonstrated , supercomputer in the world after the United States.

The computer was a success and was exported to Germany, UK and Russia. Apart from taking over the home market, PARAM attracted 14 other buyers with its relatively low price tag of $350,000.

The computer was also exported to the ICAD Moscow in 1991 under Russian collaboration.