HP and Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd, have build a supercomputer, which is the 4th most powerful in the world and the most powerful in Asia Pacific.

Speaking on the occasion, S Ramadorai, chairman, CRL, said, "This project, based on standard infrastructure building blocks from HP, will herald the availability of affordable research in India. This will pave the way for growth in the Indian research industry by providing affordable access to computational infrastructure to the vast existing research talent pool across verticals and domains."

According to Balu Doraisamy, managing director, HP India Sales, "HP is honoured to partner with Tata CRL, from the inception stages of the project, all the way through its production.  We are proud to work collaboratively with Tata CRL to take forward their vision of being a global leader in HPC, building scalable and cutting-edge supercomputer architectures while making affordable research in India a reality."

HP's c-Class BladeSystem technology enabled CRL to put this supercomputer capability in place in a one-month period.

"HP Bladesystem technology tangibly shortened the physical installation and integration timeframe and got us into production incredibly fast," said Dr. Ashwini K. Nanda, CRL Programme Manager. 

HP and CRL consider this system, named "Eka", which means the "one" in Sanskrit, a stepping-stone for CRL's Petaflops project.