India has entered into the list of world's top ten supercomputer developers, this year.EKA, meaning one in Sanskrit, has become the fastest supercomputer in Asia and ranked fourth worldwide.This has been announced in the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis at Reno, Nevada, USA.
Developed by a group of engineers of Tata group company Computational Research Laboratories,Pune , Eka, the supercomputer facility incorporates cutting edge technologies like dense data center layout, novel network routing and parallel processing library,designed by the scientists of CRL and the project was actively supported by the engineers at Tata Consultancy Services.The computing giant is capable of performing 117.9 teraflops ,which is almost one fourth of world's fastest supercomputer BlueGene/L.
Ratan Tata , the chairman of Tata Group figured out that high speed computing facility is gaining its increasing importance in the fields of science and technology along with other fields of major interest ,all over the world.He hoped that this breakthrough invention will boost the ongoing Indian scientific initiatives.
In the recent future the system is targeted to develop applications for neural simulation, molecular simulation, computational fluid dynamics, crash simulation, and digital media animation and rendering.The long term applications ares will be financial modeling, seismic modeling, geophysical signal processing, weather prediction, medical imaging, nano technology, personalized drug discovery, real-time rendering, and virtual worlds among others.
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(the picture shows a part of BlueGene/L, world's fastest supercomputer)
(one teraflop=one trillion floating point operations per second)
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