Yahoo, Tata Sons arm ties up for cloud computing research

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Global internet major Yahoo! Inc and Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd, on Tuesday entered into an agreement to jointly support cloud computing research. As part of the pact, CRL will make available to researchers one of the world’s top five supercomputers that has substantially more processors than any supercomputer currently available for cloud computing research.

This effort is the first of its kind in terms of the size and scale of the machine and 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, an open source distributed computing project of the Apache Software Foundation, to enable scientists perform data-intensive computing research on a 14,400 processor supercomputer.

Called the EKA, CRL’s supercomputer is ranked the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world – it has 14,400 processors, 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.