EKA ( a short form of Embedded Karmarkar Algorithm, which also means the number ''One'' in
Sanskrit.
), is a
supercomputer
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built by the
Computational Research Laboratories
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, 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
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
.
Design
To enable design of new software, previously proven hardware platform was needed. This was provided in the EKA system using 14,352
cores based on the
Intel QuadCore Xeon processors. The primary interconnect is
Infiband
InfiniBand (IB) is a computer networking communications standard used in high-performance computing that features very high throughput and very low latency. It is used for data interconnect both among and within computers. InfiniBand is also us ...
4x DDR. EKA occupies about area.
It was built using offshelf components from
Hewlett-Packard
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,
Mellanox and Voltaire Limited.
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.
See also
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SAGA-220
SAGA-220 (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 teraflops) is a supercomputer built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
It was unveiled on 2 May 2011 by Dr K. Radhakrishnan, chairman, ISRO. As of 8 January 2018, ...
, a 220-TeraFLOPS supercomputer built by
ISRO
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PARAM series of supercomputers by the
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an Indian autonomous scientific society, operating under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
History
CDAC was created in November 1987, initially as the Centre f ...
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Supercomputing in India
Supercomputing in India has a history going back to the 1980s. The Government of India created an indigenous development programme as they had difficulty purchasing foreign supercomputers. when ranking by number of supercomputer systems in the T ...
References
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External links
Eka Top 500 Supercomputer list
Computational Research LaboratoriesTCS acquires Computational Research Laboratories
X86 supercomputers
Hewlett-Packard supercomputers
Information technology in India
Supercomputing in India