Established in March 1988, as a Scientific Society of the Department of Information Technology (formerly, Dept. of Electronics), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (formerly, Ministry of Information Technology), Government of India, The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), is primarily an R & D institution involved in the design, development and deployment of advanced Information Technology (IT) based solutions.

In a little over a decade since inception, C-DAC has developed and supplied a range of high performance parallel computers, known as the PARAM series of supercomputers. C-DAC's development activities in this area have been mission oriented and driven by its mission objectives, both in technology and application developments.

C-DAC, as a result of its pioneering developments, evolved the Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology (GIST), with a view to extend the benefits of Information Technology to the vast and diversified multilingual population of India. Use of the GIST range of software and hardware products has led to the proliferation of the use of computers and their applications in all major Indian languages, with hundreds of thousand of users countrywide.

Over the years, C-DAC has diversified its activities to address requirements in various areas, consequently, our expertise also extends to other advanced areas of Information Technology, enabling IT based solutions in areas like Financial and Capital market simulation and modeling, Network and Internet Software, Healthcare, Real Time Systems, eGovernance, Data Warehousing, Digital library, Artificial Intelligence and Natural language processing.

As part of its development activities C-DAC has been awarded a number of sponsored R & D projects, by the Department of Information Technology, Department of Official Language (DOL), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Department of Culture, Department of Biotechnology etc.

Driving business through its R & D, C-DAC has undertaken and executed projects for a number of organizations in Government, both Centre and States, and Corporates. These are categorized in the areas of:

High Performance Computing & Communication for scientific and business applications Networking
Turnkey Solutions for Power, Telecom, Health, Financial Market etc. Third party products based value - addition in products and services Geomatics
eGovernance
C-DAC's Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS) is dedicated to creating high quality manpower for C-DAC in particular and the IT industry in general through the designing and delivering various courses. The courses are offered through a network of 100 plus Authorized Training Centres (ATC's) in India, besides the C-DAC's own centers in Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad & Bangalore.

Over 30,000 students pass out every year from these courses. They are today successful employees of many Multinational and premier Indian IT companies, and many of them have also become successful entrepreneurs also.