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Dr [[Vijay P. Bhatkar|Vijay Bhatkar]] was hired as the Director of C-DAC.<ref name="1998-outlook" /> The project was given an initial run of three years and an initial funding of {{INR}}30,00,00,000, the cost of a Cray supercomputer.<ref name="1998-outlook"/> | Dr [[Vijay P. Bhatkar|Vijay Bhatkar]] was hired as the Director of C-DAC.<ref name="1998-outlook" /> The project was given an initial run of three years and an initial funding of {{INR}}30,00,00,000, the cost of a Cray supercomputer.<ref name="1998-outlook"/> | ||
A [[prototype]] computer was [[Benchmark (computing)|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.<ref name="1998-outlook" /> | A [[prototype]] computer was [[Benchmark (computing)|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.<ref name="1998-outlook" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pal |first1=Sanchari |title=The Little Known Story of How India's First Indigenous Supercomputer Amazed the World in 1991 |url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/82076/india-first-supercomputer-param-cdac-vijay-bhatkar/ |access-date=21 May 2022 |work=[[The Better India]] |date=13 January 2017 |language=en}}</ref> | ||
<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pal |first1=Sanchari |title=The Little Known Story of How India's First Indigenous Supercomputer Amazed the World in 1991 |url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/82076/india-first-supercomputer-param-cdac-vijay-bhatkar/ |access-date=21 May 2022 |work=[[The Better India]] |date=13 January 2017 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
The final result of the effort was the [[PARAM#PARAM 8000|PARAM 8000]], released in 1991.<ref name=supercomp>{{cite book | last=Rajaraman| first=V. | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=y9Nxe0SPeVkC|publisher=Universities Press| year=1999 | title=Super Computers| edition=1st | page=75| isbn=9788173711497 | access-date=15 September 2011}}</ref> It is considered to be India's first supercomputer. | The final result of the effort was the [[PARAM#PARAM 8000|PARAM 8000]], released in 1991.<ref name=supercomp>{{cite book | last=Rajaraman| first=V. | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=y9Nxe0SPeVkC|publisher=Universities Press| year=1999 | title=Super Computers| edition=1st | page=75| isbn=9788173711497 | access-date=15 September 2011}}</ref> It is considered to be India's first supercomputer. | ||