SAGA-220 is a supercomputer built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
EKA
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s and were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and later at Cray Research. While the supercomputers of the 1970s used only a few processors, in the 1990s, machines with thousands of processors began to appear and by the end of the 20th century, massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of "off-the-shelf" processors were the norm.
Currently, IBM Sequoia is the fastest in the world
- As of May 2011, it is the fastest supercomputer in the nation[1] with a maximum theoretical speed of 220 TFlops.
- It was unveiled on May 2, 2011 by Dr K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO.[2]
- The name SAGA-220 stands for Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 teraflops
- It is located at the supercomputing facility named Satish Dhawan Supercomputing Facility at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram.
EKA
- is a supercomputer built by the Computational Research Laboratories (a subsidiary of Tata Sons) with technical assistance and hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard.
- Eka means the number One in Sanskrit
- EKA uses 14,352 cores based on the Intel QuadCore Xeon processors. The primary interconnect is Infiband 4x DDR. EKA occupies about 4000 sq. feet area[7]. It was built using offshelf components from Hewlett-Packard, Mellanox and Voltaire Ltd.[2]. It was built within a short period of 6 weeks.[7]
Ranking history
At the time of its unveiling, it was the 4th fastest supercomputer in the world and the fastest in Asia[7]. As of 16 September 2011, it is ranked at 58
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s and were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and later at Cray Research. While the supercomputers of the 1970s used only a few processors, in the 1990s, machines with thousands of processors began to appear and by the end of the 20th century, massively parallel supercomputers with tens of thousands of "off-the-shelf" processors were the norm.
Currently, IBM Sequoia is the fastest in the world
| Year | Supercomputer | Peak speed (Rmax) | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | IBM Roadrunner | 1.026 PFLOPS | New Mexico, USA |
| 1.105 PFLOPS | |||
| 2009 | Cray Jaguar | 1.759 PFLOPS | Oak Ridge, USA |
| 2010 | Tianhe-IA | 2.566 PFLOPS | Tianjin, China |
| 2011 | Fujitsu K computer | 10.51 PFLOPS | Kobe, Japan |
| 2012 | IBM Sequoia | 16.32 PFLOPS | Livermore, USA |
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