ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA - ZSI Locations

1- North Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong ( Meghalaya)

2- Western Regional Centre, Pune ( Maharashtra)

3- Northern Regional Centre, Dehradun (Uttar Pradesh)

4- Southern Regional Centre, Chennai ( Tamil Nadu)

5- Central Zone Regional Centre, Jabalpur ( Madhya Pradesh)

6- Desert Regional Centre, Jodhpur ( Rajasthan)

7- Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Patna (Bihar)

8- High Altitude Regional Centre, Solan ( Himachal Pradesh)

9- Marine Biology Regional Centre, Chennai ( Tamil Nadu)

10-Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre, Port Blair ( Andaman & Nicobar Is.)

11-Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Hyderabad ( Andhra Pradesh)

12-Sunderbans Regional Centre, Canning ( West Bengal)

13- Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Gopalpur-on-Sea ( Orissa)

14- Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode ( Calicut) (Kerala)

15-Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh)

16-Marine Aquarium- cum-Regional Centre, Digha ( West Bengal)

INDIAN MISSILES

AGNI -I

Agni is an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile. Agni-I used solid propulsion booster and a liquid propulsion upper stage, derived from Prithvi, essentially to prove the re-entry structure, control and guidance. The strap-down inertial navigation system adopts explicit guidance, which has attempted for the first time in the world. It uses all carbon composite structure for protecting payload during its re-entry phase. The first flight conducted in May 1989, established the re-entry technology and precise guidance to reach the specific target. Agni-I flight trials having proved the long-range technologies, an operational version of agni with solid-solid propulsion system was test fired in April 1999, which is Agni-II with mobile capability.

AGNI-II :

Agni-II Missile: The range for Agni-II is performance, repeated guidance more than 2000 km. The salient features of performance capability and salvo firing the test firings are mobile launch capability, capability. With the completion of above multi-staging, state-of-the-art control and flight trials, the design and development of guidance, re-entry technology and the Trishul Missile is complete. sophisticated on-board packages including (g) Nag Missile: Nag is a third generation anti-advanced communication. Agni�II has also tank missile with �top-attack� and �fire and been inducted into Services. forget� capability.

AKASH:

Akash System is a medium range Surface to Air Missile with multitarget engagement capability. It uses high-energy solid propellant for the booster and ram-rocket propulsion for the sustainer phase. The propulsion system provides higher level of energy with minimum mass, compared to conventional solid/liquid rocket motor, that has better performance with minimum weight of the missile. It has a dual mode guidance, initially on command mode from a phased array radar and later radar homing guidance with unique software developed for high accuracy. The phased array radar provides capability for multiple target tracking and simultaneous deployment of missiles to attack four targets at the same time, in each battery. Multiple batteries constitute a group centre. The system is highly mobile and has gone through a number of flight trials providing the command guidance.

BRAHMOS :

BRAHMOS is a supersonic cruise missile and can be used against ship and land targets. It has a range of upto 300 kms. The missile is uniquely configured for installing in ships, submarines & aircraft and on ground vehicles. It has been flight tested twice during June 2001 and April 2002 meeting all mission objectives.

PINAKA:

Multi-Barrel Rocket System PINAKA, an area weapon system to supplement the existing artillery gun at ranges beyond 30 kms, having quick reaction time and high rate of fire has been accepted by the user after extensive trials

PRUTHVI:

Prithvi is a Surface-to-Surface Battle field Missile. It uses a single state, twin-engine liquid propulsion system and strap-down inertial guidance with real-time software incorporated in the onboard computer to achieve the desired accuracy during impact. Prithvi has higher lethal effect compared to any equivalent class of missiles in the world. Prithvi is a unique missile today having manoeuverable trajectory and high level capability with field interchangeable warheads. Its accuracy has been demonstrated in the development flight trials. Flight trails for Air force has been completed. This system is now being configured for launching from ship, increasing its capability as a sea mobile system.

TRISHUL:

Trishul is a Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile. It can also be used as an anti-sea skimmer from a ship against low flying attacking missiles. It employs dual thrust propulsion stage using high-energy solid propellant in a maraging steel flow chamber, and is operated on command guidance initially with ka-band gathering and then transferred to the tracking radar. It has necessary electronic counter-counter measures against all known aircraft jammers.

Trishul, with its quickest reaction time, high frequency operation, high manoeuverability, high lethal capability and multi-roles for three services, is state-of-the-art system providing considerable advantage to the Armed forces. This system has gone through development flight trials for army and sea skimmer trials for navy. The final evaluation is in progress before user trials.

RANDOM DEVELOPMENT

Technology Achievements

• Composite Pitot Adapter Development for better EM performance
• Qualified Composite Pitot Adapter with Lightning Test on Full Scale Radome
• Standardized Painting Scheme for Blister Free Surface
• Established the process for achieving �15� Angular tolerance requirement on Pitot Adapter Holes

Project Milestones/Achievements Delivery of Radome Assembly with due Airworthiness Certification for PV1 Aircraft 4 VTR Mouldings for PV4, PV5 & 2 Flight Standby completed Coupon level Mech., EM & Environmental Tests for QTAT completed which will be followed by Full Scale Radome Level Tests RE-ENTRY VEHICLE STRUCTURE Established Non-impact fastening of bulkheads SHELL-on-SHELL Technology Established Designed & developed tape wound CP shells Bonding technique of CE / CP shells (Shell-on-Shell) NDT techniques for Shell-on-Shell RVS sections Completed Autoclave (small)control up gradation N2 pressurization system for 3 autoclaves Civil works realized for RVS assembly facility

The world's 10 fastest supercomputers

1.

The world's first fastest supercomputer is Cray XT5, also known as “Jaguar”. Located at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for achieving another supercomputing milestone. With a peak speed of 2.33 petaflops (over two thousand trillion calculations per second),

The new 1.64-petaflop Cray XT Jaguar features more than 180,000 processing cores, each with 2 gigabytes of local memory. The resources of the ORNL computing complex provide scientists with a total performance of 2.5 petaflops. Which beating IBM's Roadrunner, who has been holding the top crown since past 18 months.


2.

Roadrunner is a supercomputer built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA.

Currently the world's second fastest computer. The supercomputer was designed and developed for the DOE and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) under the DOE/LANL project name "Roadrunner."

In November 2008, it reached a top performance of 1.456 petaflops, retaining its top spot in the TOP500 list.


3.

Cray XT5 system, also known as "Kraken" was ranked as world's 3rd fastest supercomputer. Located at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (University of Tennessee), Kraken supercomputer achieved a speed of 832 teraflop/s. A teraflop/s is a trillion calculions per second. Both Kraken and Jaguar are Cray XT5 supercomputers.


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IBM's BlueGene/P was ranked as world's 4th fastest supercomputer. Located at the Forschungszentrum Juelich in Germany. The BlueGene/P is the fastest computer outside United States. It achieved 825.5 teraflop/s.


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Tianhe-1 supercomputer, and was ranked as world's 5th fastest supercomputer. Tianhe-1, which means River in Sky, is located at the National Super Computer Center in Tianjin, China. The system is used for research in petroleum exploration and simulation of large aircraft designs.

Tianhe-1 achieved a speed of 563 teraflops in the tests, but it is capable of 1.042 petaflops, and is a hybrid design with Intel Xeon and AMD graphics processors used as accelerators. Each node consists of two AMD GPUs attached to two Intel Xeon chips. Tianhe-1 runs an operating system based on the Linux kernel.


6.

SGI Altix supercomputer known as Pleiades, was ranked as world's 6th fastest supercomputer. The supercomputer is located at NASA's Ames Research Center (NAS).


7.

The seventh fastest supercomputer in the world is again from IBM, BlueGene/L. The supercomputer is located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Terascale Simulation Facility. After an upgrade in 2007 the performance increased to 478.2 trillion floating operations per second (teraFLOPS) on Linpack.
BlueGene/L had been used widely for materials science calculations such as assessing materials at extreme temperatures and pressures.


8.

IBM BlueGene/P was ranked as world's 8th fastest supercomputer. The supercomputer was installed in 2007 in US-based Argonne National Laboratory.


9.

Sun Microsystem's Ranger was ranked as world's 9th fastest supercomputer. The Ranger supercomputer belongs to Sun's Blade System family. The supercomputer is located at Texas Advanced Computing Center. Running on AMD x86_64 Opteron Quad Core 2300 MHz processor, Rangers main memory is a mammoth 125952 GB


10.

Juropa was ranked as world's 10th fastest supercomputer. Companies from Europe and the United States have joined hands with Forschungszentrum Jlich research centre in Germany, to enter the future of high-performance cluster computing.

The system was designed by experts of the Jülich Supercomputing Center and implemented in conjunction with partner companies Bull, Sun, Intel, Mellanox and ParTec. Es besteht aus 2208 Rechenknoten mit einer Gesamtrechenleistung von 207 Teraflop/s. It consists of 2208 compute nodes with a total computing performance of 207 teraflop / s.

Technology Development and Related Programmes

The Department of Science and Technology under its scheme on "Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Research" supports collaborative Research and Development projects jointly submitted by drug companies and the academics national R&D institutes. The programme aims towards the development of new drugs and cleaner process technologies for known drugs/key intermediates for drugs. The programme covers all systems of medicine - Allopathic, Ayurvedic, Homeopathic, Siddha and Unani. In addition to this, National Facilities essential to undertake R&D have also been set up under this programme. Specific mention may be made of the Medium Throughput Facility, Pharmacological Testing Facility and Centre for Pharmaco-kinetic and Metabolic Studies at CDRI, Lucknow, Immunomodulatory Potential Testing Facility at IICB, Kolkata; National Facility on Transgenic and Gene Knockout Mice at CCMB, Hyderabad; and National Centre for Bio availability at National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Mohali. So far 45 projects including 7 national facilities have been funded by creating industry-institutional alliances among 20 institutions (national labs. and universities) and 19 drug industries. The programme has resulted filing of 12 patents in India and abroad.

The Department has guided 24 socio-economic ministries in the setting up of Science and Technology Advisory Committees (STACS) for formulation of long/short-term joint technology development programmes. For coordinating the efforts of STACs and to take stock of activities of various ministries, the Department has also set up an Inter-Sectoral S&T Advisory Committee under the Chairmanship of Secretary, DST. A quarterly newsletter STAC SCAN is being brought out by IS-STAC to disseminate information.

The Department has been catalytic in identifying, formulating and implementing a number of technology development programmes with the help of industries and socio-economic ministries. Efforts of the Department in this direction have helped in initiation of multi-institutional programmes in the emerging areas of technology. As a part of this programme, projects were continued to be supported in the areas such as instrument development, advanced materials, critical technology, sugar technology, fly ash utilisation, advanced composites and in higher technical education.

The Department has set up an autonomous body- Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (External website that opens in a new window) (TIFAC). The main objectives of TIFAC include generation of Technology Forecasting, Technology Assessment and Techno Market Survey (TMS) documents and enabling a Technology Information System. TIFAC has brought out more than 280 specialised reports covering most of the sectors of economic relevance, ranging from Agriculture to Advanced Sensors and from materials to biotechnology. These reports have also focused on the upcoming and frontier technologies like transgenic seeds, biochips, RDNA products, transgenic animal models, surface engineering, etc. The reports provide a vision and options for technology trajectories for industries, institutions, entrepreneurs and experts. TIFAC has also brought out a series of reports giving a comprehensive picture of 16 areas of scientific research carried out in our country in last 50 years.

TIFAC carried out a long-term Technology Vision (Forecasting) exercise known as "Technology Vision for India up to 2020", covering 17 sectors important to Indian economy. The reports include realistic technology road maps for achieving desired goals as well as intermediate milestones. A few of the recommendations of these reports are being implemented through projects in different sectors. This has resulted in follow up actions on a limited scale towards demonstration projects of technology for wider replication in six identified sectors namely: Agriculture and Agro Food Sector, Road Construction and Transportation Equipment, Upgradation of Textile Machinery/Textile Industry, Health Care Services and Herbal/Natural Products, Upgradation of Science, Engineering and Professional Institutions relevant to Industry (Mission REACH), and Targeted Programmes in other important areas like Hydrogen Energy, Waste to Energy, Emerging Energy Sectors, Electric Power, Rural Connectivity, SMEs, etc.

Mission REACH has been launched by TIFAC with the objective of upgrading select science and engineering colleges so as to create Centres of Relevance and Excellence (COREs) in achieving new heights in selected institutions at par with the world's best. 26 such centres have been set up across the country on a wide range of emerging areas of relevance to industry & society. A unique features of these TIFAC-COREs is a very active participation of Industry in the form of training programmes, research projects and consultancy. Details of Institutions/Areas, etc. could be seen on www.missionreach.org .

A Patent Facilitating Centre (PFC) has been set up in TIFAC with the objectives of introducing patent information as a vital input in the process of promotion of R&D programmes, provide patenting facilities for scientists/ technologists of the country on a sustained basis, keep a watch on developments in the areas of intellectual property rights, create awareness and understanding relating to patents and undertake studies and analysis of policy related to TRIPS Agreement and other agreements under World Trade Organisation, etc.

The Centre has been organising awareness workshops to sensitise scientists/technologists from various universities, government, R&D institutions and industries. The PFC has also brought out two CD ROM databases containing data from 1995. The website www.indianpatents.org.in provides comprehensive details of the service and facilities provided by the PFC. The PFC has also brought out a report on patenting of micro-organisms and has developed a video programme on patent awareness titled "Patents Made Easy".

To promote innovation among entrepreneurs, a new golden jubilee initiative called "Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP)" has been initiated and implemented jointly by TIFAC with DSIR. The main thrust of TePP is to tap the vast untapped innovative potential of the Indian innovators. The support is provided to projects of individual innovators towards scaling up the idea/invention/know-how/designs to working models/prototypes/pilot plants. Besides financial support, the endeavour is to link and couple them to the most appropriate existing R&D facilities and expertise; assist them in patent search/filing of patents; interface for tying-up with financial institutions for commercial exploitation, etc.

To encourage grass-root innovators, National Innovation Foundation (NIF) of India has been established with the main goal of providing institutional support in scouting, spawning, sustaining and scaling up grassroots level green innovators and helping their transition to self supporting activities.