EKA ( a short form of Embedded Karmarkar Algorithm, which also means the number ''One'' in
Sanskrit
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.
), is a
supercomputer built by the
Computational Research Laboratories
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company with its headquarters in Mumbai. It is a part of the Tata Group and operates in 150 locations across 46 countries. In July ...
, a company founded by Dr. Narendra Karmarkar, for scaling up a supercomputer architecture he designed at the
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the ...
with a group of his students and project assistants over a period of 6 years.
CRL became a subsidiary of
Tata Sons
Tata Sons Private Limited is the parent company of the Tata Group and holds the bulk of shareholding in the Tata group of companies including their land holdings across India, tea estates and steel plants. It is a privately owned conglomerate of ...
, after their investment into the company. The hardware platform required for initial software development was built with technical assistance from
Hewlett-Packard.
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 4x DDR. EKA occupies about area.
It was built using offshelf components from
Hewlett-Packard,
Mellanox
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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
*
SAGA-220, a 220-TeraFLOPS supercomputer built by
ISRO
*
PARAM
Param may refer to:
* PARAM, a series of Indian supercomputers
* Param (company), a video game developer
* Param, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* Param, Mazandaran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
* Param, Chuuk, Microne ...
series of supercomputers by the
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
*
Supercomputing in India
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