NEW DELHI: India will soon take the first exploratory steps towards realising its plan to put an Indian on moon. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Madhavan Nair told TOI that by 2008-end, India plans to start feasibility studies on a manned moon mission in what is sure to put a seemingly ambitious project on a concrete footing.
There is no timeline yet because the project is deemed very expensive.
WASHINGTON: India has surprisingly broken into the Top Ten in a much-fancied twice-yearly list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, marking a giant leap in its push towards becoming a global IT power.
A cluster platform at Pune’s Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a Tata subsidiary, has been ranked fourth in the widely anticipated TOP500 list released at an international conference on high performance computing in Reno, Nevada.
Intel Corporation unveiled 16 server and high-end PC processors promising increased computer performance and energy savings. The company says these processors also eliminate eco-unfriendly lead and, in 2008, halogen materials.
Called the biggest transistor advancements in 40 years by Intel Co-Founder Gordon Moore, the processors are the first to use Intel’s Hafnium-based high-k metal gate (Hi-k) formula for the hundreds of millions of transistors inside these processors.
