Tata Eka World’s Fourth Fastest Computer Puts India on Forefront

EKA, The Supercomputer developed by Tata’s Pune based Computational Research Laboratories, has been ranked the world’s fourth fastest and fastest in Asia. This information was disclosed in the 30th Top500 Supercomputer list. Its a proud moment for India and us Indians as its the first time such system from India has made it to the Top 10 =D>

A total of 9 supercomputers developed in India have appeare in the top 500list including one more system (179th) developed at Tata Sons’ wholly owned subsidiary Computational Research Laboratory (CPL) in Pune, where EKA was developed. Others include a system developed by Indian Institute of Science (58th) and 6 IBM systems (ranked at 152nd, 158th, 336th, 339th, 340th and 371st). The fastest supercomputer in the world is BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.

BlueGene/L System recorded a speed of 478.2 teraflops per second (trillions of calculations per second) while EKA recorded 117.9 teraflops per second. EKA is a sanskrit word and means Number One.More information about EKA:

Site
Computational Research Laboratories, TATA SONS

System Family
HP Cluster Platform 3000BL

System Model
Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c

Computer
Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c, Xeon 53xx 3GHz, Infiniband

Vendor Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard

Application area
Not Specified

Installation Year
2007


Operating System
Linux

Interconnect
Infiniband DDR

Processor
Intel EM64T Xeon 53xx (Clovertown) 3000 MHz (12 GFlops)