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EKA, The Fastest Supercomputer In Asia
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Also ranked the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world in the Top500 Supercomputer list.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007:
EKA, the supercomputer built at the Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) facility at Pune, has been ranked as the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world and fastest supercomputer in Asia, as per the Top500 Supercomputer list. EKA uses nearly 1800 computing nodes and has a peak performance of 170 Teraflops (TFlops or Trillion Floating Point Operations per Second) and a sustained performance of 120 Teraflops based on the LINPACK benchmarks which are used by the worldwide community to rank supercomputers based on performance.
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The Top500 Supercomputer list was announced at SC07, the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis at Reno, Nevada, USA. The supercomputer facility at Computational Research Laboratories is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd.
EKA follows a near-circular layout of the data centre unlike the traditional Hot Aisle and Cold Aisle rows. This near-circular layout enables the building of densely packed supercomputers and this is the first time this architecture has been tried out on this scale.
Commenting on the occasion, Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata group, said, "High-performance computing solutions have an ever-increasing role in the scientific and new technological space the world over. The Tata group has supported this development activity and is extremely proud of the team that has developed and built this supercomputer, which is now ranked as the world's fourth fastest. I am sure this supercomputer and its successor systems will make a major contribution to India's ongoing scientific and technologicalm initiatives."
"EKA gives us the ability to address applications in multiple disciplines including software development and research," said S. Ramadorai, chairman, CRL, and CEO and MD, Tata Consultancy Services. "The successful launch of the supercomputer has been driven by an exemplary team at CRL working collaboratively with scientists across the Tata group.
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