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We Indians have dignity and self respect at its peak and a gentle push is to be needed which sparks our ego and create that fire

In 1988, India require supercomputers for research work, to manufacture satellites, for weather-forecasting, to manufacture military weapons.
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In universities, for scientists to continue their research, we required supercomputers. At that time an American company CRAY was manufacturing supercomputers.
So, India wanted to buy supercomputers from that US company for 70 crores.
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For a company to sell any high-technology goods to another company, it needs to take the permission of government of that country. So, CRAY company asked the permission of American government to sell supercomputers for India. But US government didn’t give the permission.
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US claimed that ‘If we give this technology for India, it will use it for military purposes, instead of educational purposes’. So, America disagreed to sell the supercomputer technology to India. But, for research purposes India require supercomputer urgently.
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At that time, Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister of our country. He arranged a meeting with the scientists. In that meeting, a famous scientist named VIJAY BHATKAR was also present.Rajiv Gandhi asked whether we can manufacture a supercomputer.
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Then Vijay Bhatkar answered “ I did not use a supercomputer till now. I saw CRAY supercomputer also just in a photo. But we have the capacity to manufacture a supercomputer”.Then Rajiv Gandhi asked “How long does it takes?”
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Vijay Bhatkar replied “ It would take less time than that of what it takes if we import it from America.” Then Rajiv Gandhi asked “How much it costs to manufacture a supercomputer?”
Vijay Bhatkar answered “ The cost of building the institute, developing the technology and
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manufacturing the supercomputer would take less cost than that of importing frm CRAY company.”Then Rajiv Gandhi ws impressed& gave green signal fr the SUPERCOMPUTER PROJECT.For this project, in 1988 an institute ‘Centre for Development of Advanced Computing’ (C-DAC) ws build.
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Many scientists started working on this project.Just in 3 yrs, Indian scientists got the fruit for their hard work. In 1991, India succeeded in manufacturing a supercomputer. It was named as PARAM.But America doubted the Indian supercomputer PARAM.
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It claimed that ‘it is not a supercomputer and it doesn’t have the capability’. Then India took the PARAM supercomputer to International Exhibition. PARAM was tested there. Then they came to know that PARAM was the second most powerful supercomputer in the world.
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Then the world came to know the capability of India. Next day in a newspaper headline, about PARAM was
“DENIED SUPERCOMPUTER- ANGRY INDIA DOES IT” Supercomputer which is manufactured by India hs some special features.CRAY supercomputer costs 70 cr, but PARAM costs just 3 cr.
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That’s why, 14 universities belonging to Britain, Canada&Germany bought our supercomputer. By can’t withstanding the competition frm India, CRAY company was forced to reduce the prices of its supercomputer,the power of PARAM was 28 times more than the supercomputer of CRAY.
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Like this Rajiv Gandhi and Vijay Bhatkar made India into the list of countries having a supercomputer with just one spark in their heart and mind for which they begged it from USA at 25 times's the cost CRAY supercomputer.
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