After proving its mettle in areas like steel, automotive and IT services on the global arena, corporate behemoth Tata group has now developed the world's fourth fastest supercomputer EKA that can do 117.9 trillion calculations per second.

EKA - A supercomputer developed by Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd, at a cost of $30 million (Rs118.11 crore) has been ranked the fourth fastest in the world by Top500, a project that ranks world’s 500 most powerful computers.ka, the supercomputer, is also ranked the fastest computer in Asia, and is based on a Hewlett-Packard Co. system.This is the first time that an Indian supercomputer has been ranked among the top 10 in this list.

International Business Machines Corp.’s (IBM) super computer Blue Gene/L, installed in the US, ranked first in the list with a benchmark performance of 478.2 teraflops.CRL develops applications in areas such as neural simulation, molecular simulation, computational fluid dynamics, crash simulation and digital media animation and rendering.

the open source (Linux)- based supercomputer Eka is housed at the Computational Mathematics Laboratory (CML) of TIFR, located at the Pune University campus. The computer has a speed of one tera floating point operations per second (flops), equivalent to Param Padma, the fastest and most powerful in the Param series of supercomputers developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), and allows CML to run various complex algorithms with upto one billion variables. It is cool to see India's fastest supercomputer under top 10 in the tentative list of 500 . Surely , We will build fastest supercomputer in the world in recent years .

The supercomputer rankings are compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.Bloomberg’s Mathew Miller contributed to this story.source : IBEF