C-DAC Launches Param Yuva II - India's fastest supercomputer

C-DAC Pune launched India's fastest supercomputer - Param Yuva II.

J Satyanarayana, secretary of the department of electronics and information technology congratulated the people behind the development of Param Yuva II.

Param Yuva II is the fastest indigenous supercomputer of India, and the 62nd fastest in whole world. 

The new one will help us in areas like weather forecasting, seismic analysis and scientific data processing.

They says that the main beneficiaries will be the science and technology related academic centers and research and development laboratories of our country and more over they were planning to setup a network between the Indian institute of technologies and national institute of technologies to bring them all under single tent using Param Yuva II

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Google Science Fair 2013-Online science competition open to students between 13-18 instructions

Google science fair is an online competition for students in the age range 13-18. Students from anywhere in the world can participate GSF 2013 with their extra ordinary ideas.

Google science fair 2013 is now open for new ideas and innovations from little scientists.

Google science fair 2013  opens up great opportunities in-front of the  teen age students to show up their incredible ideas and innovations to the world.

The will get sufficient inspiration from Google science fair 2013 to develop and implement their futuristic ideas in the real world.

You can avail the permission for the participation by simply logging in and providing your email-id in the website googlesciencefair.com
If you are experiencing any issues in online registration, you can get the participation ticket by sending a permission request  by an email to gsfparentalconsent@gmail.com or a fax to +44 (0)20 7401 4000 or by a post to "Google Science Fair 2013, EdComs, Capital Tower, 91 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8RT, UK".

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Top 5 digital photography tutorials

Here are some tutorials of Digital Photography which may help you to improve your photography skills. These tutorials can be a beginners guide for novice photographers as well as a reference for the professionals.

Cambridge in ColourA Learning Community for Photographers

SLR Lounge

Picture correct - Photography tips and tricks

Kelby TV

Photography Mad - Tips, Techniques, and Tutorials

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How to clean your DSLR camera lens

Now a days people dealing with photography increasing numerously, either professionally or as a hobby. Professionals  as they are born for photography, most of them may be familiar with the technical and functional know hows of camera and its accessories. But in the other hand there exist a numerous novice people dealing photography as a hobby, they might not know about how to care or handle their cameras and accessories.

As lens is the main part of the camera, it deserves much care than some other parts of the camera. So the below link will help you to learn how to care a DSLR lens

In this tutorial the author trying to make people know how to clean your DSLR camera lens.

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FREE - Online labs for school experiments

Online Labs is an educational initiative by CREATE @ Amrita a part of famous Amrita University, the Center for Research in Advanced Technologies for Education at Amrita University in partnership with CDAC, Mumbai; under a research grant from the Department of Information Technology, Government of India. The lab hosts experiments in Physical and Chemical sciences for the students of classes 9 and 10 with content aligned to the NCERT/CBSE curriculum.

The Online Labs is based on the idea that lab experiments can be taught using the Internet, more efficiently and less expensively. The labs can also be made available to students with no access to physical labs or where equipment are not available owing to being scarce or costly. This helps them compete with students in better schools and bridges the digital divide and geographical distances. The experiments can be accessed anytime and anywhere, overcoming the constraints on time felt when having access to the physical lab for only a short period of time.

The 'learning-enabled assessment' through the Online Labs, facilitates in the assessment of; the procedural and manipulative skills of the experiment, the concepts and understanding of the experiment and a student's reporting and interpreting skills.

The development of online labs includes the study and use of mathematical techniques to demonstrate the various complex functions in diverse areas of science. The labs make use of cutting edge simulation technology to create real world lab environments. Thorough study and research is done by research personnel's for better understanding of the experimental procedures. Real lab scenarios are captured through live demonstration of the experiment so as to assimilate information on the procedures and lab equipment. Visualisation and development of the graphical symbols are done based on realistic situations and compared with the respective real equipment. Simulations are made interactive using various authoring tools, thus recreating and simulating a real lab environment.

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