Active | October 2007[1] |
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Operators | Computational Research Laboratories, Tata Sons |
Location | Computational Research Laboratories, Pune, India |
Memory | 28.7 TeraByte[2] |
Storage | 40 TeraByte[2] |
Speed | 172.6 TeraFLOPS[3] |
Cost | US$30,000,000 INR 1,800,000,000 (assuming US$1 = 60 INR)[4] |
Ranking | 14 November 2007 |
Purpose | Multipurpose[5] |
EKA (abbreviation of Embedded Karmarkar Algorithm, 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.
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]
India has broken into the top tier of supercomputing after a new machine built by Tata[dead link]