India made Eka Super computer
. It is a cluster and each computer of this cluster is made by HP.
model of each node = HP Cluster Platform 3000BL.
each node is runnig on Intel XEON 3GHz processor. How do you claim that it is made by India. And secondly making a cluster is dead easy. I can make it. I even made it my home using 4 computers.
None of your super computers are made by your self. one is made by IBM and all others are made by HP.
and you are saying it is 4th fastest computer. very old news. it is now on rank 13. and the top500 super computer list is updated on November 2008. and you are telling us on Feb 2009 that it is ranked Forth in the world.
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i am giving you the link below.
Don't lie all the time.
dude...your knowledge is half-baked!
do you even know why a supercomputer is a supercomputer?
the cores are for commercial applications...for all...the chinese supercomputer which is the 10th or the 12th fastest supercomputer....the Dawning...is based on AMD processors...and is a cluster
Clustering can provide significant performance benefits versus price. The System X supercomputer at Virginia Tech, the 28th most powerful supercomputer on Earth, is a 12.25 TFlops computer cluster of 1100 Apple XServe G5 2.3 GHz dual-processor machines (4 GB RAM, 80 GB SATA HD) running Mac OS X and using InfiniBand interconnect. The cluster initially consisted of Power Mac G5s; the rack-mountable XServes are denser than desktop Macs, reducing the aggregate size of the cluster. The total cost of the previous Power Mac system was $5.2 million, a tenth of the cost of slower mainframe computer supercomputers. (The Power Mac G5s were sold off.)
The central concept of a Beowulf cluster is the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computers to produce a cost-effective alternative to a traditional supercomputer. One project that took this to an extreme was the Stone Soupercomputer.
However it is worth noting that FLOPs (floating point operations per second), aren't always the best metric for supercomputer speed. Clusters can have very high FLOPs, but they cannot access all data the cluster as a whole has at once. Therefore clusters are excellent for parallel computation, but much poorer than traditional supercomputers at non-parallel computation.
in short...
the ARCHITECTURE is What makes a supercomputer a supercomputer!
well india is not known for the hardware industry that we have...our softwares are world class...and so are our architecture capabilities...we manufactured a superrcomputer to suit our needs....and if it were just cores and operating systems that resulted in a supercomputer...then surely 8 indian supercomputer's in the world's top 500 supercomputers list would have been listed as american supercomputers..or not listed at all.
and if by picking off-shelf hardware and asenbling them components into a supercomputer of T-FLOP capability isso simple...then why is our great neighbor lagging in this venture?it is easy to shoot from the mouth.
here are some links you'd like to go through...
8 Indian supercomputers are in top 500 lists | Tech Productivity
i wonder why BBC callls EKA an indian supercomputer...
BBC NEWS | Technology | India enters supercomputing race
it's funny that the EKA is called a TATA computer and not an IBM one...
India supercomputer makes top-10 'most powerful' list
dont downplay the capability of a cluster supercomputer...for whoever you claim to be...if you have studied Microprocessors anytime in your life...you'd not speak shallow about the role of the architecture...it is THE MOST mind-boggling aspect of creating a computing machine of sorts.
and learn about the chineses supercomputing capabilities as well...there supercomputers are also cluster supercomputer using amercian hardaware components.