EKA (supercomputer)
Encyclopedia
EKA is a supercomputer
built by the Computational Research Laboratories
(a subsidiary of Tata Sons
) with technical assistance and hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard
.
Eka means the number One in Sanskrit
.
, Mellanox and Voltaire. It was built within a short period of 6 weeks.
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems including quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling A supercomputer is a...
built by the Computational Research Laboratories
Computational Research Laboratories
A member of the prestigious TATA Group, Computational Research Laboratories is a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Sons Limited. CRL is headquartered in Pune, India and has a branch office in US...
(a subsidiary of Tata Sons
Tata Sons
Tata Sons is a promoter of the key companies of the Tata Group and holds the bulk of shareholding in these companies. It was established as a trading enterprise by Group founder Jamsetji Tata in 1868...
) with technical assistance and hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
.
Eka means the number One in Sanskrit
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
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Design
EKA uses 14,352 cores based on the Intel QuadCore Xeon processors. The primary interconnect is Infiband 4x DDR. EKA occupies about 4000 sq. feet area. It was built using offshelf components from Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
, Mellanox and Voltaire. It was built within a short period of 6 weeks.
Ranking History
At the time of its unveiling, it was the 4th fastest supercomputer in the world and the fastest in Asia. As of 16 September 2011, it is ranked at 58.See also
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, a 220 TeraFLOPFLOPSIn computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
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- Computational Research LaboratoriesComputational Research LaboratoriesA member of the prestigious TATA Group, Computational Research Laboratories is a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Sons Limited. CRL is headquartered in Pune, India and has a branch office in US...
(CRL)