| EKA | |
| Dates: | October 2007[1] |
| Location: | Computational Research Laboratories, Pune, India |
| Operators: | Computational Research Laboratories, Tata Sons |
| Memory: | 28.7 TeraByte[2] |
| Storage: | 40 TeraByte |
| Speed: | 172.6 TeraFLOPS[3] |
| Cost: | US$30,000,000 INR 1,800,000,000 (assuming US$1 = 60 INR)[4] |
| Chartdate: | 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]
To enable design of new software, a previously proven hardware platform was needed. This was provided in the EKA system using 14,352[2] cores based on the Intel QuadCore Xeon processors. The primary interconnect is Infiband 4x DDR. EKA occupies about 4000square feet area.[7] It was built using offshelf components from Hewlett-Packard, Mellanox and Voltaire Limited.[2] It was built within a short period of 6 weeks.[8]
At the time of its unveiling, it was the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world and the fastest in Asia.[7]