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How India Made Its Own Supercomputer
India asked the US to allow them to buy a cray Supercomputer. They feared it could be used for more nefarious purposes like developing missiles and nuclear weapons so Request denied. Instead India decided to make its own supercomputer one actually powerful in efforts needs The Center for development of advanced computing or CDAC was born in 1987. A major turning point for technology and everybody else in the country.
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