The software, however, was conceived, designed and executed prior to that by scholars of M S University's Computer Centre and the department. Further development will find it indispensable in complicated and delicate jobs like weather predictions, image processing and time-series analyses of national import.

Anulib comprises four computers fitted out with ethernet cards, which can be instructed to work simultaneously on huge number-crunching operations.

The Applied Maths department was also planning to develop a library of parallel alogarithms and such routines, which could be used by the apex R&D bodies and educational institutions, department readers V D Pathak and D C Vakaskar and Centre director S Ramamohan said.

``We are expecting a positive response to a project proposal we have sent to the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India'', Ramamohan said. ``If the DST approves of the project and backs it up with Rs 25 lakh, the library might come in handy for all agencies that have to deal with huge scientific computations and don't possess such a network.''

According to Vakaskar, the scientific headway was significant also because the development had cost the university nothing. ``It is only the expertise of the dedicated staff and the students who planned the project, and the BARC and CDAC experts, who did not charge anything for their services, that made this possible'', Pathak said, adding that the computers themselves were part of the department's extant laboratory.