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The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is an Autonomous Scientific Society of Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. The National Centre for Software Technology, ER&DCI and CEDTI were merged into C-DAC in 2003.

After being denied a Cray supercomputer by the United States in 1987 due to a fear of it being used for military purposes, India started a programme to develop an indigenous supercomputer in collaboration with Russia. Supercomputers were considered a double-edged weapon capable of assisting in the development of nuclear weapons. For the purpose of achieving self-sufficiency in the field, C-DAC was established by the Department of Electronics in 1988. Vijay Bhatkar was hired as the Director of C-DAC. The project was given an initial run of 3 years and an initial funding of ?30,00,00,000 as the same amount of money and time was usually expended to secure the purchase of a supercomputer from the US. The final result of the effort was the PARAM 8000, which was installed in 1991. It is considered India’s first supercomputer.