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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)