EKA (supercomputer)
EKA is an Indian supercomputer . It was ranked 389 on the TOP500 list of the fastest computers in the world from November 2013, but was dropped from the list in June 2014. EKA was the first supercomputer from an emerging country that made it into the top 10 places on the TOP500 list (in 2007). The term EKA is Sanskrit and means "number 1".
In addition, when it was commissioned, EKA was the world's most powerful industrial system (the other computers in the top 20 of the list at the time were all financed by government funds). EKA is used for neural and molecular applications (e.g. molecular design , molecular dynamics ), crash simulations and computer animation . EKA was developed at Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) in Pune , which is a subsidiary of the Indian Tata Group .
EKA based on one of HP designed and delivered Xeon - Cluster (Platform 3000 BL460c) in which nearly 1,800 compute nodes with 14,240 so-called " Clovertown " processors ( quad-core -Xeon processors), clocked at 3 GHz can be used. An InfiniBand network in the double data rate variant (DDR) is used to connect them , and for the first time in the world using fiber optic technology (fiber optic cable). Linux is used as the operating system .
The layout of the data center is almost circular, which enables an extremely compact design. Such a computer architecture was first used on this scale at the EKA.
The system has a peak power ( Rpeak ) of up to 170 Tera flops (170 trillion floating point operations per second) and a continuous output of 117.9 Teraflops according to LINPACK - benchmarks .
Web links
- Supercomputer ranking list with the 30 fastest computers: Places 3 to 5 , Norbert Eicker, Tec-Channel, November 20, 2007