<s>
EKA	B-Device
(	O
a	O
short	O
form	O
of	O
Embedded	O
Karmarkar	O
Algorithm	O
,	O
which	O
also	O
means	O
the	O
number	O
One	O
in	O
Sanskrit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
)	O
,	O
is	O
a	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
built	O
by	O
the	O
Computational	O
Research	O
Laboratories	O
,	O
a	O
company	O
founded	O
by	O
Dr.	O
Narendra	O
Karmarkar	O
,	O
for	O
scaling	O
up	O
a	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
architecture	O
he	O
designed	O
at	O
the	O
Tata	O
Institute	O
of	O
Fundamental	O
Research	O
with	O
a	O
group	O
of	O
his	O
students	O
and	O
project	O
assistants	O
over	O
a	O
period	O
of	O
6	O
years	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
was	O
provided	O
in	O
the	O
EKA	B-Device
system	O
using	O
14,352	O
cores	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Intel	O
QuadCore	O
Xeon	O
processors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
primary	O
interconnect	O
is	O
Infiband	B-Architecture
4x	O
DDR	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
EKA	B-Device
occupies	O
about	O
area.It	O
was	O
built	O
using	O
offshelf	O
components	O
from	O
Hewlett-Packard	O
,	O
Mellanox	O
and	O
Voltaire	O
Limited	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
time	O
of	O
its	O
unveiling	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
the	O
fourth-fastest	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
in	O
the	O
world	O
and	O
the	O
fastest	O
in	O
Asia	O
.	O
</s>
