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CRL Overview
Computational Research Laboratories (CRL)
a fully owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd engaged in cutting
edge research and development in the area of high
performance computing. CRL’s interests include computer
system architecture, parallel system design, parallel
systems software, hardware design and interconnection
networks, parallel scientific, engineering, digital media,
communication and business analytics software libraries and
applications. Aiming this goal and to be among the top
research, technology and business leaders in the world in
high performance computing CRL has decided to build a 100
plus teraflop sustained performance system based on parallel
processing architectures.
With its core objective CRL has built
the fastest supercomputer in Asia, and the 4th fastest
supercomputer in the world. CRL's supercomputing facility
hosts the ‘EKA’ supercomputer with 170 TeraFLOPs peak
performance, and 120 TeraFLOPs sustained LINPACK performance
built using dense data center layout and novel network
routing and parallel processing library technologies. Built
in just 6 weeks, EKA has 1800 nodes having dual-socket
quad-core Clovertown CPUs from Intel. The nodes are
connected using Infiniband 4X DDR switches. The system has
high performance Storage Area Network using Infiniband with
Lustre file system.
The facility aims to provide
easy-to-use HPC development environment and a 24X7
application services, with a user friendly problem solving
environment. The facility will provide time cycles on EKA
with value added services combined with application domain
expertise. A range of services from simple "CPU cycles for
application development" to "hosted application services"
for various domains of client interest are offered.
CRL also provides HPC system
integration, HPC facility design, High Performance Storage
design and HPC consultancy services. Future plans also
include application porting services using multi
core/multithread optimizations and optimal parallel
processing techniques
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