EKA (supercomputer)

EKA
ActiveOctober 2007[1]
OperatorsComputational Research Laboratories, Tata Sons
LocationComputational 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.

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. ^ a b c d "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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Top500: EKA (Supercomputer)". 14 November 2007.
  8. ^ "Supercomputer another feather in Tatas` cap". 14 November 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2017.