Kabru (supercomputer)
Kabru is a supercomputer that uses a 2.4 GHz Pentium Xeon Cluster and Linux to provide a sustained speed of 959 gigaflops. It was developed by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) in Chennai, India. In June 2004, Kabru was listed as #264 in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful computers.[1] It takes its name from a Himalayan peak.
| Sponsors | Department of Atomic Energy, India |
|---|---|
| Location | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, C.I.T Campus |
| Architecture | Pentium 4 Xeon 2.4GHz, 288cores |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Speed | 1,002 GFlops |
| Ranking | TOP500: 264, June 2004 |
The idea for Kabru was born when Professor Hari Dass of the Institute began looking for a supercomputer to handle his theoretical physics research, which dealt primarily with large-scale simulations in the field of the lattice gauge theory.
The Department of Atomic Energy in India made a grant of Rs 3.5 crore to the Institute to develop Kabru.
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071111162356/http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20040816/coverstory01.shtml
- http://www.rediff.com/computer/jul/08c-dac.htm
- "TOP500 List - June 2004". TOP500. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
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