Eka Set to Cater to Customers from Nanotechnology to Drug Design

From nanotechnology to weather modeling, drug design to aerospace — Eka, the super computer built by Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a subsidiary of Tata Sons, is set to cater to global customers. After achieving the status of fastest supercomputer in Asia and the eighth fastest in the world, Eka is going for a paradigm shift. “Having achieved the milestone of building one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, CRL is now working to create meaningful applications that can solve future challenges in the areas of engineering, nanotechnology and drug design,” said S Ramadorai, chairman, CRL. The performance of Eka was recently upgraded to 132.8 Teraflops (TP) from 117.9 TP through software enhancements and is already used in various application domains that CRL is working on. Even when Ramadorai said that as of now... [read full story]