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Eka supercomputer says bhar me jaiye to competitors
It's big, it's fast
Tue Nov 13 2007, 16:17
HP AND THE Tata group have collaborated to build a supercomputer which outshines anything in Asia, it's claimed.
The computer, called "Eka", was built by a division of Tata using HP technology and can churn out 120 trillion FLOPS a second.
The computer uses Intel microprocessors and will be used for scientific purposes as well as engineering, medicine, and nanotech.
The baby cost $30 million to build.
Eka is Sanskrit for one. The Hindi phrase "bhar me jaiye" is roughly the equivalent of the Scottish expression "go boil yer heid". µ
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well this phrase is more close to "go to hell" in meaning ,judging from its common usage ... 

PS.I m also a hindi speaker and use this phrase a lot ..
FLOPS a second?
(FL Ops per second a second)?
Using intel CPU's eh, hope it aren't core2's with their math error, although there's a fix for that says their errata. just insert NOP's.
Now how many FLOPS was it again?
Its like velocity increase per second.

Does this refer to acceleration?