The Hindu Business Line : Tata Sons arm, Yahoo! tie up for cloud computing research

Yahoo! Inc and Tata Sons subsidiary firm Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) have entered into an agreement to make available-EKA, the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world- for cloud computing research in India.

This effort is the first of its kind in the country as it will be a supercomputer available to academic institutions in India for research, according to a joint press release issued by the companies. However, financial details of the engagement between the two parties were not disclosed.

Cloud computing favours the use of shared computing resources; it is being seen as an alternative to having local servers or personal devices handling users’ applications.

Joint initiative

This joint initiative will also leverage Yahoo!’s association with Apache Hadoop — an open source distributed computing project — to enable scientists to perform data-intensive computing research

“We want to advance research done on cloud computing; we are initiating dialogue with leading Indian academic institutions to collaborate on research using cloud computing,” said Mr Gautam Shroff, member of the steering committee of CRL.

With 14,000 processors and 28 terabytes of memory, EKA is the only supercomputer that is funded by the private sector and is available for use on commercial terms, the news release stated.

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