HP and TATA group build APAC's largest supercomputer

Pune

November 15th, 2007

HP has announced a new system in supercomputing working collaboratively with
Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA
group. This flagship win has resulted in CRL building the fourth most powerful
supercomputer in the world, which is also the most powerful in Asia and APAC. HP
and CRL have codenamed this system 'Eka.'

With 'Eka', scientists and engineers can perform 120 trillion floating-point
operations per second. HP High-end compute building blocks have been used by CRL
to build the supercomputer.

The result of one year's endeavor, CRL will use the system to push scientific
and industrial discovery model particle dynamics at ultra high resolution in
fields such as nano-photonics and medicine.

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

Said Balu Doraisamy, MD, HP India Sales, "We are proud to work
collaboratively with TATA CRL for building 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 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 Program
Manager