Active October 2007 Storage 40 TeraByte | Memory 28.7 TeraByte Speed 172.6 TeraFLOPS | |
Operators Computational Research Laboratories, Tata Sons Location Computational Research Laboratories, Pune, India | ||
EKA is a supercomputer built by the Computational Research Laboratories (a subsidiary of Tata Sons) with technical assistance and hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard.
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Eka means the number One in Sanskrit.
Design
EKA uses 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 m2) area. It was built using offshelf components from Hewlett-Packard, Mellanox and Voltaire Ltd.. 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. As of 16 September 2011, it is ranked at 58.
References
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