| Active | October 2007 |
|---|---|
| Operators | Computational Research Laboratories, Tata Sons |
| Location | Computational Research Laboratories, Pune, India |
| Memory | 28.7 TeraByte |
| Storage | 40 TeraByte |
| Speed | 172.6 TeraFLOPS |
| Cost | US$30,000,000 INR 1,800,000,000 (assuming US$1 = 60 INR) |
| Ranking | 14 November 2007 |
| Purpose | Multipurpose |
EKA (abbreviation of Embedded Karmarkar Algorithm, also means the number One in Sanskrit), 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.
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.
Design
To enable design of new software, a previously proven hardware platform was needed. This was provided in the EKA system using 14,352 cores based on the Intel QuadCore Xeon processors. The primary interconnect is Infiband 4x DDR. EKA occupies about 4,000-square-foot (370 m) area. It was built using offshelf components from Hewlett-Packard, Mellanox and Voltaire Limited. It was built within a short period of 6 weeks.
Ranking history
At the time of its unveiling, it was the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world and the fastest in Asia.
See also
- SAGA-220, a 220-TeraFLOPS supercomputer built by ISRO
- PARAM series of supercomputers by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
- Supercomputing in India
References
- "Tatas' supercomputer Eka adjudged world's fourth fastest". 14 November 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
- ^ "Top500: EKA (Details)". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
- "Top500: EKA(Performance)". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
- "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.
- ^ "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
- "eka - Sanskrit Meaning".
- ^ "Top500: EKA (Supercomputer)". 14 November 2007.
- "Supercomputer another feather in Tatas` cap". 14 November 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
External links
- Eka Top 500 Supercomputer list
- Computational Research Laboratories
- TCS acquires Computational Research Laboratories