`The Hindu' in its Chennai edition dated 28-4-2004 carried an article titled `India's fastest academic computer to vie for top spot', and sorry I could not get any online links to the article.
It has been reported that the Dept. of Atomic Energy made a grant of Rs. 3.5 crores to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, out of which the Linux cluster that clocked 1.382 teraflops was realised at the cost of only about Rs. 2.5 crores - a fraction of what supercomputers of this pedigree would cost.
AB, you wrote about working on a similar project - is that a connected project?