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A member of the prestigious TATA Group
Tata Group
Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Tata Group is one of the largest companies in India by market capitalization and revenue. It has interests in communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy,...

, Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Sons Limited. CRL is headquartered in Pune, India and has a branch office in US. Founded in 2006, with a novel mission to make high-performance computing
High-performance computing
High-performance computing uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Today, computer systems approaching the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers.-Overview:...

 affordable and accessible globally, CRL has emerged as an HPC solutions company helping its customers deal with the complex challenges of fully exploiting the benefits of HPC. CRL offers the entire spectrum of solutions, ranging from IaaS to all the way upto HPC led innovation as a service.

In November 2007, a supercomputer named EKA
EKA (supercomputer)
EKA is a supercomputer built by the Computational Research Laboratories with technical assistance and hardware provided by Hewlett-Packard.Eka means the number One in Sanskrit.-Design:...

 was built at CRL with technical support from Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

 and $30 million USD of funding from Tata Sons
Tata Sons
Tata Sons is a promoter of the key companies of the Tata Group and holds the bulk of shareholding in these companies. It was established as a trading enterprise by Group founder Jamsetji Tata in 1868...

. At the time it was the fastest supercomputer in Asia and 4th fastest in the world.
As per the results of the International Supercomputing Conference held in November 2010, EKA is the 47th fastest supercomputer in the world. For the complete list of the results of ISC2010, see
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