India's Supercomputer Fastest in Asia
India has broken into the Top 10 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, marking a giant leap in
its push towards becoming a global IT power. A cluster platform at Pune’s Computational Research Laboratories, a Tata subsidiary, has been ranked fourth in the widely anticipated Top 500 list released at an international conference on high performance computing in Reno, Nevada. The Indian supercomputer has been adjudged the fastest in Asia.
It is the first time India has figured in the global Top 100, let alone Top 10. The list, usually dominated by the US, is also notable this time because it has five new entrants in the Top 10, with supercomputers in Germany and Sweden up there with the one in India.
The No. 1 position has again been claimed by the BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and the US department of energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Although BlueGene/L has occupied the No. 1 position since November 2004, the current system is much faster at 478.2 teraflops compared with 280.6 teraflops six months ago before its upgrade. At No. 2 is a Blue-Gene/P system installed in Germany at the Forschungszentrum Juelich; it achieved a speed of 167.3 teraflops. The No. 3 system at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, posted a speed of 126.9 teraflops.
The Tata supercomputer, named EKA after the Sanskrit term for one, is a Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system. CRL has integrated this system with its own innovative routing technology and achieved a speed of 117.9 teraflop. A teraflop is a trillion calculations per second.EKA has been built at Tata's Pune facility. It uses nearly 1,800 computing nodes and has a peak performance of 170 trillion floating-point operations per second.Supercomputer had been built with HP servers using Intel chips with 14,240 processor cores. The system went operational last month and achieved a speed of 117.9 teraflops.
The second ranked supercomputer in India, rated 58th in the Top 500 list is at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Others are ranked 152, 158, 179, 336, 339, 340 and 371. Horst Simon, associate laboratory director, computing sciences, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, and one of the Top 500 list authors, told that it was exciting to see India’s entrance into the Top 10 and because the country has ‘‘huge potential’’ as a supercomputing nation.
US is clearly the leading consumer of high power computing systems with 284 of the 500 systems, Europe follows with 149 systems and Asia has 58. In Asia, Japan leads with 20 systems, Taiwan has 11, China 10 and India 9.
its push towards becoming a global IT power. A cluster platform at Pune’s Computational Research Laboratories, a Tata subsidiary, has been ranked fourth in the widely anticipated Top 500 list released at an international conference on high performance computing in Reno, Nevada. The Indian supercomputer has been adjudged the fastest in Asia.It is the first time India has figured in the global Top 100, let alone Top 10. The list, usually dominated by the US, is also notable this time because it has five new entrants in the Top 10, with supercomputers in Germany and Sweden up there with the one in India.
The No. 1 position has again been claimed by the BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and the US department of energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Although BlueGene/L has occupied the No. 1 position since November 2004, the current system is much faster at 478.2 teraflops compared with 280.6 teraflops six months ago before its upgrade. At No. 2 is a Blue-Gene/P system installed in Germany at the Forschungszentrum Juelich; it achieved a speed of 167.3 teraflops. The No. 3 system at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, posted a speed of 126.9 teraflops.
The Tata supercomputer, named EKA after the Sanskrit term for one, is a Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system. CRL has integrated this system with its own innovative routing technology and achieved a speed of 117.9 teraflop. A teraflop is a trillion calculations per second.EKA has been built at Tata's Pune facility. It uses nearly 1,800 computing nodes and has a peak performance of 170 trillion floating-point operations per second.Supercomputer had been built with HP servers using Intel chips with 14,240 processor cores. The system went operational last month and achieved a speed of 117.9 teraflops.
The second ranked supercomputer in India, rated 58th in the Top 500 list is at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Others are ranked 152, 158, 179, 336, 339, 340 and 371. Horst Simon, associate laboratory director, computing sciences, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, and one of the Top 500 list authors, told that it was exciting to see India’s entrance into the Top 10 and because the country has ‘‘huge potential’’ as a supercomputing nation.
US is clearly the leading consumer of high power computing systems with 284 of the 500 systems, Europe follows with 149 systems and Asia has 58. In Asia, Japan leads with 20 systems, Taiwan has 11, China 10 and India 9.
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