EKA (supercomputer)

EKA ( a short form of Embedded Karmarkar Algorithm, which 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.

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]

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, 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. "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. Retrieved 16 September 2007.
  5. "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
  6. "eka-(Sanskrit) Meaning".
  7. "Top500: EKA(Supercomputer)". 14 November 2007.
  8. "Supercomputer another feather in Tatas` cap". 14 November 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
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