C-DAC Releases Five New Products

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has announced the release of five new products. The five products that have been released include Cyber Investigation and Analysis Tools for Network Forensics, KYN - Know Your Network, Anuman- Real Time Weather System, Black Box and BOSS Server Version.

Know Your Network (KYN) is an open-source based integrated platform exclusively for Network Monitoring and Measurement for diagnosing network health. KYN provides monitoring mechanisms for verification of QoS, network performance, diagnosis by analysing various network parameters such as link statistics, interface details, latency, delay, packet loss, jitter, bandwidth utilisation, application data rates etc. KYN also provides measurement mechanisms both using active and passive measurement strategies.

Anuman is an enabling tool designed to provide the user a real time forecast of weather parameters over local scale (sub urban region). The global model forecasts of atmospheric states such as Temperatures, Pressure, Humidity, mean sea level pressures etc are used to initialise regional weather forecasting models. These regional forecast models are then used to obtain the very high-resolution forecast of atmospheric parameters. The output obtained from this tool can be used for understanding the condition of the atmosphere over the region as small as 1 Km X 1 Km. Anuman has a service-oriented architecture, which assists in predicting high impact weather events.

Bharat Operating Systems Solutions (BOSS) Server Version can be used in Government departments as an Intranet Server. The BOSS Linux Server has features including a user-friendly GUI Front end that has Fire fox, Thunderbird and also supports printers and USB devices such as cameras. Presently it supports Intel and AMD x86/x86-64 architecture and is being tested on other architectures. Another key feature of BOSS Linux is the ability to remotely control the server.

BOSS Linux Server is mainly targeted towards Government departments / SME’s and also towards Linux distro (distribution) developers for further development on Linux. Black Box for automobiles is a device that provides information on the circumstances in which an automobile may have been involved in an accident. The product enables us to judge the conditions, in which the vehicle was being driven, both from the point of view of the driver who was driving the vehicle and the investigating/controlling agency in case of an accident. It includes features like speed detection, alcohol breath detection, overload detection, front camera, etc.

Commenting on the launch S Ramakrishnan, Director General, C-DAC said, “C-DAC is increasingly focused on research that is technologically challenging, nationally relevant and commercially viable. To be able to fall back on our inherent capabilities and convert the technology into a product form has been successfully realised at ELITEX 2008 with the release of our products by the hands of our Hon’ble Minister. It gives me immense pleasure to inform you that C-DAC is traversing a diversified crossroad leading to multiple technical areas and I am confident that we shall surely continue to make our presence felt in the global IT market.”