Mumbai: It is called 'Eka' the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world built by Tata sons' subsidiary Computation Research Laboratories (CRL). This is also India's first entry in the list of global top ten super computers.

'Eka' is a name taken from Sanskrit meaning number one. Besides making use of 2.5 megawatt power, it needs air-conditioning that can cool a medium sized hotel i.e. 350-400 tones and has 35 kilometers of cabling inside it. Eka has a large memory capacity to store up to 30,000 full length movies or 28 terabytes and can transfer the entire content of your 40 GB iPod in second! Presently, its cost is nearly $30 million.

It can process data at the rate of 120 trillion FLOPS (floating point operation per second).

'Eka' can be very effective in fields like weather prediction, oil and natural gas exploration, automotive, drug discovery, nanotechnology, computer gamming and animation.

Mr. S. Ramadorai chairman of CRL further informed "Over the next six to nine months we will have a library of applications that can run on Eka".