Indian super comp is 4th fastest in the world

New Delhi: An Indian supercomputer has been ranked fourth in a list of the fastest super computers in the world, making this a giant step in India's efforts at becoming a global IT power.
The effort by Pune's Computational Research laboratories, a Tata subsidiary, marks the first time India's figured in the global top 100.

The list was released at an international conference for high performance computing at Reno in the US.
The Tata supercomputer, called EKA after the Sanskrit term for one, is a Hewlett Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system.
The computer has a speed of 117.9 teraflop, a teraflop being trillion calculations per second.
It is expected to help in areas of nanotechnology, seismic data processing and drug discovery.
The list is generally dominated by technologies developed by the US, but this year, computers from India, Germany and Sweden were up at the top of the much-anticipated list.