HP and has collaborated with Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd, India’s largest conglomerate, which has resulted in CRL building the “fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world” thus marking a major milestone in world class supercomputing.
HP has been working with CRL to evaluate and plan for an advanced HPC facility in India over the past year. This close partnership has now culminated in a vast computational capability - the most powerful in Asia Pacific and Japan - a top ranking entry into the TOP500 Supercomputer list, which catalogs the world's 500 most powerful installed technical and commercial computer systems. CRL will use the system to push scientific and industrial discovery to unprecedented limits.
HP and CRL consider this system, named "Eka", which means the "one" in Sanskrit, a stepping-stone for CRL’s Petaflops Project. The groundwork has been laid in terms of advanced interconnects, on hybrid architectures, and algorithms and more milestones are on the anvil from the partnership between CRL and HP.
“HP is honored to partner with Tata CRL, a leading name in the field of High Performance Computing, from the inception stages of the project, all the way through its production. We are proud to work collaboratively with Tata CRL to take forward their vision of being a global leader in HPC, building scalable and cutting-edge supercomputer architectures while making affordable research in India a reality,” said Mr. Balu Doraisamy, Managing Director, HP India Sales.
This new initiation will now allow engineers to be able to model particle dynamics at ultra high resolution allowing for significant breakthroughs in fields such as nano-photonics and medicine.
“This project, based on standard infrastructure building blocks from HP, will herald the availability of affordable research in India. This will pave the way for growth in the Indian research industry by providing affordable access to computational infrastructure to the vast existing research talent pool across verticals and domains,” said Mr. S Ramadorai, Chairman, CRL.
CRL said HP's c-Class BladeSystem technology enabled it to put this supercomputer capability in place in a one-month period.
"HP BladeSystem technology tangibly shortened the physical installation and integration timeframe and got us into production incredibly fast," said Dr. Ashwini K. Nanda, CRL Program Manager.
"HP’s unique differentiator here is the combined value proposition and affordability of leveraging standard building blocks to build a Supercomputer for a variety of applications so as to lower the cost of research and next-gen application building. We were able to get the fastest processors from Intel and the fastest interconnect from Voltaire & Mellanox, packaged in a dense, efficient and well managed environment from HP.” |
