EKA (supercomputer)

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EKA
ActiveOctober 2007 [1]
OperatorsComputational Research Laboratories, Tata Sons
Location Computational Research Laboratories, Pune, India
Memory28.7 TeraByte [2]
Storage40 TeraByte [2]
Speed172.6 TeraFLOPS [3]
CostUS$30,000,000
INR 1,800,000,000 (assuming US$1 = 60 INR) [4]
Ranking14 November 2007
PurposeMultipurpose [5]

EKA (abbreviation of Embedded Karmarkar Algorithm, also means the number One in Sanskrit [6] ), is a supercomputer built by the Computational Research Laboratories, a company founded by Dr. Narendra Karmarkar, for scaling up a supercomputer architecture he designed at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research with a group of his students and project assistants over a period of 6 years.

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CRL became a subsidiary of Tata Sons after their investment into the company. The hardware platform required for initial software development was built with technical assistance from Hewlett-Packard. [5]

Design

To enable design of new software, a previously proven hardware platform was needed. This was provided in the EKA system using 14,352 [2] cores based on the Intel QuadCore Xeon processors. The primary interconnect is Infiband 4x DDR. EKA occupies about 4,000-square-foot (370 m2) area. [7] It was built using offshelf components from Hewlett-Packard, Mellanox and Voltaire Limited. [2] It was built within a short period of 6 weeks. [8]

Ranking history

At the time of its unveiling, it was the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world and the fastest in Asia. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Tatas' supercomputer Eka adjudged world's fourth fastest". 14 November 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Top500: EKA (Details)". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
  3. ↑ "Top500: EKA(Performance)". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "Tata's supercomputer Eka is fastest in Asia". The Economics Times. 14 November 2007. Archived from the original on August 12, 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2007.
  5. 1 2 "India breaks into supercomputing elite". Times Online. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2007. India has broken into the top tier of supercomputing after a new machine built by Tata[ dead link ]
  6. ↑ "eka - Sanskrit Meaning".
  7. 1 2 "Top500: EKA (Supercomputer)". 14 November 2007.
  8. ↑ "Supercomputer another feather in Tatas` cap". 14 November 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
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