chandigarh the computer centre of panjab university would now be known as dr a p j abdul kalam computer centre former president late dr a p j abdul kalam had inaugurated the national high performance scientific computing facility a tifacdst project at the pu computer centre on february 19 2000on occasion of kalams first death anniversary director terminal ballistics research laboratory tbrl and pu alumnus dr manjit singh and panjab university vicechancellor arun kumar grover unveiled the plaque of the rechristened computer centredr manjit singh delivered a special lecture at pu he shared his memories and experiences while working on various projects with dr kalam he said that dr kalam was a highly honoured man but was very down to earth he said that dr kalam was available to all and was a perfect fusion of modern technology and traditional values pu vc recalled the contributions of dr kalam he paid rich tributes to dr kalam and called upon students to take inspiration from his life and great contributions referring to the computer centre director of the computer centre professor r k singla said that the centre was established in 1988 with vax8350 system to cater the universitys computational facilities later mainframe computers microcomputers workstations and clientserver systems were added