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USDOC FOR 532/OEA/M. NICKSON-D/JAY HATFIELD 
USDOC FOR 3131/USFCS/OIO/ANESA/KREISSL 
USDOC FOR 4530/MAC/ANESA/OSA 
ICE HQ FOR STRATEGIC INVESTIGATIONS 
STATE FOR EB/ESP 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC IN
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SUPERCOMPUTER 
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER, INDIA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, 
BANGALORE, INDIA. 
 
REF: USDOC 10499 
 
¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is 
prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 
 
¶2. On May 7, 2008, Export Control Officer (ECO) Paul Cushman and BIS 
FSN Shailendra Srivastava conducted a Post-Shipment Verification 
(PSV) at the Super Computer Research and Education Centre (SCREC), 
Bangalore. 
 
¶3. BIS requested a PSV at SCREC located at the Indian Institute of 
Science, Bangalore.  SCREC was listed as the ultimate consignee for 
an IBM BLUE GENE High Performance Computer.  Export License: 
D371696.  ECCN: 4A003. 
 
¶3. ECO and FSN Srivastava met with Professor Govindarajan Ramaswamy, 
Chairman, Dr. R. Krishna Murthy, Principal Research Scientist, and 
Mr. Harish, Purchasing Officer, SCREC.  Mr. Randhir Jaiswal, Deputy 
 Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, arranged and was present at 
the meeting. 
 
¶4. SCREC representatives were familiar with BIS regulations.  This 
was the second visit by BIS officials to SCREC.  ECO Michael Rufe 
visited the facility in April 2005 and conducted PSVs for licenses 
D308728 and D326052.  Chairman Ramaswamy provided copies of 
documents pertaining to this transaction including IBM Commercial 
Invoice, IBM Proforma Invoice, SCREC Purchase Order, Air Waybill and 
Delivery Challan confirming receipt of the IBM BLUE GENE High 
Performance Computer. 
 
¶5. Chairman Ramaswamy stated that the computer was delivered to the 
facility on September 26, 2007 from IBM.  Engineers from IBM USA and 
IBM UK completed the installation in October 2007.  Chairman 
Ramaswamy confirmed the stated end-use.  The computer is being used 
by IIS students and faculty for research in the areas of atmospheric 
science, molecular biology, computational chemistry, and 
computational fluid dynamics.  99% of this research ends up in 
published academic works. 
 
¶6. GOI Central Industrial Security Force personnel control access to 
the SCREC building.  The computer is installed in a secured interior 
room within SCREC.  Only authorized personnel can enter this room. 
Access to the room is controlled through an electronic badging 
system.  In order to use the computer, IIS personnel are required to 
submit a formal request in which a demonstrated need must be 
established.  In conjunction with the request, applicants must sign 
a declaration agreeing not to use the computer for any activities 
prohibited in the license conditions.  Once the request has been 
approved by Chairman Ramaswamy, an account is established and the 
researcher can log into the computer from anywhere on the IIS 
campus.  It is not possible to log into the computer from outside 
the campus. 
 
¶7. After the meeting, the BIS team was given a tour of the SCREC 
facility where ECO verified the IBM BLUE GENE High Performance 
Computer serial numbers as 010014EA, 010014FA, 0100151A and 
0100150A. 
 
¶8. SCREC falls under Indian Institute of Science within the Ministry 
of Human Resource Development.  It was founded in 1990 to provide 
state-of-the-art computing capacity to the faculty and students of 
IIS. 
 
¶9. Recommendation: At the time of this visit, Super Computer 
Research and Education Centre appeared to be a reliable recipient of 
this controlled technology.  The item on check was physically 
verified and was being used in a manner consistent with the license 
conditions and the Export Administration Regulations. 
MULFORD