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Super Computer to Support Cloud Computing Research|
- By CXOtoday Staff, Mar 25, 2008 1839 hrs IST
- Tags : Super Computer to Support Cloud Computing Research
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Researchers from India, in the field of cloud computing, will soon get to use a super computer, which will have significantly more processors than any supercomputer currently available for the purpose.
Yahoo and Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, have announced an agreement to jointly support cloud computing research. CRL will make available to researchers one of the world's top five supercomputers, as a part of this agreement. This Yahoo-CRL announcement has been made on the eve of the first ever Hadoop Summit.
This effort is the first of its kind in terms of the size and scale of the machine. Also, it is the first in making available a supercomputer to academic institutions in India. The Yahoo-CRL effort is intended to leverage CRL's expertise in high performance computing and Yahoo's technical leadership in Apache Hadoop.
Apache Hadoop is an open source distributed computing project of the Apache Software Foundation. This enables scientists to perform data-intensive computing research on a huge number of processor-based supercomputer.
CRL's supercomputer, called EKA, is ranked the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world. Apart from 14,400 processors, it has 28 terabytes of memory, 140 terabytes of disks, a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations per second (180 teraflops), and sustained computation capacity of 120 teraflops for the LINPACK benchmark.
Of the top ten supercomputers in the world, EKA is the only supercomputer funded by the private sector, and is available for use on commercial terms. This is expected to run the latest version of Hadoop and other state-of-the-art, Yahoo-supported, open-source distributed computing software - such as the Pig parallel programming language developed by Yahoo Research.
In the words of S. Ramadorai, chairman of CRL, "The Tata group has always contributed to scientific research in India, and the EKA will strengthen this cause further in the field of cloud computing. This partnership brings together Yahoo's leadership role in the development of Hadoop and CRL's expertise in high performance computing, and will help bridge the gap between traditional supercomputing and cloud computing research in India."
Gautam Shroff, member of the steering committee of CRL, informed, "We are excited to partner with Yahoo to advance cloud computing research in India as it opens up a new arena of exciting opportunities. We are initiating dialogue with leading Indian academic institutions to collaborate on research using cloud computing."
Ron Brachman, vice president and head of academic relations for Yahoo stated, "We have made our leadership in supporting academic, cloud computing research very concrete by sharing a 4,000-processor supercomputer with computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University for the last three months. With this supercomputing cluster, researchers were able to analyze hundreds of millions of Web documents and handled two orders of magnitude more data than they previously could."
He continued, "Launching our cloud computing program internationally with CRL is another significant milestone in creating a global, collaborative research community working to advance the new sciences of the Internet."
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by max on Jun 03, 2008 08:26 AMAt heart of Yahoo cloud computing is CRL's supercomputer, called EKA, is ranked the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world. Apart from 14,400 processors, it has 28 terabytes of memory, 140 terabytes of disks, a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations per second (180 teraflops), and sustained computation capacity of 120 teraflops for the LINPACK benchmark. sort of a semicndocutor angle
