Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2012 Nominee

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC) SUPERCOMPUTING PROJECT


Description

Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology has installed High Performance Computing (HPC) facility to provide applications that will alleviate poverty and advance science. The project is utilizing HPC facilities which have number crunching capability and ported with applications which can be applied in Soil Analysis for agriculture, Weather Research and Forecasting in Climate Change studies, Bioinformatics in DNA forensic and drug discovery, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics, Seismic application in Mining, Cryptography Analysis, and Materials Modeling. The project will foster regional collaborations in cutting edge research in the area of poverty eradication and economical development.

Project website

http://www.dit.ac.tz/coeictnew/


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development 2012
Millennium development goals related to this project
  • Goal 1: Eradicate poverty and hunger

Coverage

Status

Ongoing

Start date

07 September 2009

End date

Not set


Entity name

Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology

Entity country—type

United Republic of Tanzania Government

Entity website

http://www.dit.ac.tz

Partners

CDAC of India