EKA (supercomputer)

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| Name = EKA

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| Dates = October 2007{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/article1674679.ece?ref=archive|title=Tatas’ supercomputer Eka adjudged world’s fourth fastest|date=14 November 2007|access-date=16 September 2011}}

| Location = Computational Research Laboratories, Pune, India

| Operators = Computational Research Laboratories, Tata Sons

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| Memory = 28.7 TeraByte{{cite web|url=http://www.top500.org/system/details/9504|title=Top500: EKA (Details)|access-date=16 September 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320010358/http://www.top500.org/system/details/9504|archive-date=20 March 2012}}

| Storage = 40 TeraByte

| Speed = 172.6 TeraFLOPS{{cite web|url=http://www.top500.org/system/performance/9504|title=Top500: EKA(Performance)|access-date=16 September 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320010428/http://www.top500.org/system/performance/9504|archive-date=20 March 2012}}

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| Cost = US$30,000,000
INR 1,800,000,000 (assuming US$1 = 60 INR){{cite news|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2007-11-14/news/27686717_1_supercomputer-computational-research-laboratories-crl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812020132/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2007-11-14/news/27686717_1_supercomputer-computational-research-laboratories-crl|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 12, 2011|newspaper=The Economics Times| title=Tata's supercomputer Eka is fastest in Asia|date=14 November 2007|access-date=16 September 2007}}

| ChartDate = 14 November 2007

| Purpose = Multipurpose{{cite news | title=India breaks into supercomputing elite| url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2863079.ece| newspaper=Times Online| quote=India has broken into the top tier of supercomputing after a new machine built by Tata|date=13 November 2007|access-date=16 September 2007}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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EKA (abbreviation of Embedded Karmarkar Algorithm, also means the number One in Sanskrit{{cite news |title=eka - Sanskrit Meaning |url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eka-}}), 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.