8 Indian supercomps in world's top 500 list

Economic Times
BANGALORE

Hewlett Packard (HP), the world’s biggest maker of personal Computers, on Friday said that a total of eight entries in the list of top500
supercomputers are from India and six out of the eight entries are from HP. Among vendors, HP leads the list with a 41.8 % share of the systems, followed by IBM (37%), Dell (4%) and Cray (4%).

Supercomputer Eka, a HP-based System with a performance of 132.8 teraflops (floating point operations per second) has been ranked at number 13. Eka belongs to the Tata Group’s Computational Research Laboratories.

The rankings are released twice a year by researchers at the Universities of Tennessee and Mannheim, Germany, and at NERSC Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The HP-based Param cluster of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing has been ranked 68th.