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BARC Transfers Technology to M/s. Senergy Intellution The technology of On Line Set Point Servo System (OLSPSS) developed by Reactor Control Division of BARC has been transferred to M/s Senergy Intellution Pvt Ltd., Mumbai . OLSPSS provides facility to test trip points of plant safety system by servoing the input signals around the set point strictly one at a time. It provides steering facility to connect a floating current source to different inputs of the system under test . This automated system aids the plant maintenance, as wiring need not be disconnected to calibrate or to test safety signals. OLSPSS works on the principle of current injection through floating source of 0-25 mA having current step resolution of 14 Bits and has three modes of operation viz. Response test, Accuracy test and Calibration mode. OLSPSS can be used for applications for test and monitoring computer for plant safety system for on line live checking and to make hand held live field calibrators . |
BARC develops faster supercomputer version
BARC has developed ANUPAM-PIV 64-node supercomputer with a sustained speed of 43 giga flops (floating point instructions per second) which is 30 to 40 times faster than the parallel computer developed indigenously by other institutions, and more than 10 times faster than the fastest supercomputers imported from abroad.
ANUPAM-PIV is designed using Pentium IV personal computers operating at 1.7 GHz with 256 MB memory each. The computing speed is expected to improve further with the use of ultra-fast communication hardware.
So far, BARC has commissioned 37 earlier designs of the supercomputers at Trombay and other institutions namely Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bangalore, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, Indian Institutes of Technology at Mumbai and Kanpur, UICT and SNDT Women’s University in Mumbai, and National Centre for Monitoring & Research in Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) in Delhi.
BARC is using the supercomputer for solving very large complex computational problems in the fields of condensed matter physics simulations, electronics structures and molecular dynamics simulations, radiation chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, finite element analysis of non-linear problems, computational fluid dynamics, gamma ray simulations, electromagnetic simulations and laser-atom interactions.Super computers are extensively used for solving very large computational problems in scientific research, engineering, industry, defence and business for a variety of applications such as molecular dynamics, simulation of reservoir, simulation of collision of galaxies and crash studies for automobile, aeroplane and nuclear technologies.
VASVIK Award to CMD, IRE Shri T.K. Mukherjee, CMD, IRE has been honoured with the VASVIK Award for the year 1999, for his contribution in the area of material and metallurgical science & technology. The Award carries the price of Rs. 50,000/- and a citation. The award has been instituted by the Vividhluxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra, Mumbai. Enterprise Excellence Award The Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE), Mumbai has conferred Enterprise Excellence Award 2000-2001 on the Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL). |
Remembering Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha : Rangoli creation by Shri S.B. Jadhav, an employee of the DAE’s Directorate of Construction, Services and Estate Management. |
14th All India Essay Contest on Nuclear Science and Technology
Winners of the DAE’s 14th all India essay contest with Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, AEC. Other dignitaries (left to right, chair row) are Dr. J.P. Mittal, Director, Chemical & Isotope Group, Shri S.L. Kati, former Managing Director of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), Dr. M.R. Srinivasan former Member, Planning Commission and former Chairman, AEC, Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India , Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet and former Chairman, AEC, Shri B. Bhattacharjee, Director, BARC, Shri V. K. Chaturvedi, Chairman cum Managing Director, NPCIL and Shri S. K. Sharma, Director, Reactor Group and Engineering Services Group, BARC.
DAE organized the 14th All India Essay Contest on Nuclear Science and Technology for undergraduate students. The topics for the contest were : 1. Electricity Generation from Nuclear Energy - Present Status and Future Scenario 2. Applications of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technologies for Societal Development Following were the prize winners Topic 1: First Prize : Shri S Rama Swamy, a Second Year BSc student of the Aditanar College of Arts & Science, Tiruchendur, T N. Second Prize : Shri Asutosh Pathak, a Final Year BE student of YCCE Nagpur, Maharashtra. Third Prize : Shri Sunil Kumar Chhipa, a Final Year B Tech student of College of Diary and Food Science Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan. Topic 2 : First Prize: Shri V Sankara Narayanan, a Third year BE student of the Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, TN. Second Prize : Shri NVNS Srinivas, Third Year B Tech student at the Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, AP Third Prize : Shri Pravin Pohekar, a Second Year BSc student at the Adarsha Science, Jairamdas Bhagchand Arts and Birla Commerce Mahavidyalaya, Dhamangaon, Maharashtra. The remaining 23 students were awarded consolation prizes. The two first prizes were given away by Ms Vasundara Raje Scindia,the Minister of State for the Department of Atomic Energy and Space The second and third prizes for both the topics, were given away by Dr Anil Kakodkar, Chairman Atomic Energy Commission on Founder’s Day (October 30) |
