IMSc's Kabru joins teraflop club

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences - IMSc has joined the worldwide Teraflop supercomputer club with the full commissioning of ''Kabru'', a 288-CPU (144 node) node Linux Cluster.

''With a theoretical peak performance of 1.382 Teraflops and a measured (sustained) performance of 951.7 Gflops of double precision arithmetical operations, KABRU is the second fastest supercomputer from India and the fastest supercomputer belonging to an academic/research organisation in the country, a release from the Institute said.

Kabru has been submitted for inclusion into the Top 500 supercomputer list. Supercomputing Online is carrying this article. An associated story can be seen here.