The Ministry of Communications calls on Russian system programmers to unite

Nikolai Nikiforov , Minister of Communications and Mass Media, spoke at the opening of the OS Day scientific-practical conference on current issues of operating system development. The event was held on December 11 at the Institute of System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISP RAS).

The head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of Russia spoke about the results of a dialogue with the IT industry on the development of Russian competitive products in the OS and system software market: “All market participants agree that it is pointless today to start developing system projects from scratch, no matter what kind of operating systems we are discussing. We need to build on the existing developments. "

The minister said that at present, together with the industry, mechanisms of state support for such developments are being worked out, but he stressed that support cannot be addressed to only one enterprise: “It is necessary to develop a model in which a number of market players consolidate their development efforts. As a result, a basic product arises, which the participants of the association - both public and private developers - can subsequently develop and commercialize as part of their larger projects. ”


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According to the statement on the official website , the objectives of the OS Day conference are to consolidate the efforts of Russian specialists in the field of OS development, formulate the tasks and capabilities of Russia in the development of system software, create a personnel reserve of young specialists in the field of system programming, the conference is intended to become a communication platform for theorists and practitioners system programming and development of operating systems, a place of association of Russian developers independently moving in similar directions Barrier-in the long term - be realized in mutually beneficial joint motion.

The conference opens a series of scientific and practical events (seminars, conferences, visiting schools) aimed at popularizing relevant areas in the field of software and involving students of leading technical universities of Russia and young IT specialists in scientific and project work on this topic.

At the same time, the following current directions in the field of software are named:

• Operating systems for multicore and cloud computing.
• Operating systems and architectures for embedded real-time systems.
• Operating systems for wireless sensor networks.
• Operating systems for managing GPU resources.
• Optimize system level for memory access.
• Specialized versions of the Linux kernel.
• Operating System Virtualization.
• Operating systems for asymmetric multi-core processors.
• Energy management in mobile devices.
• Methods and tools for designing, developing, verifying and maintaining operating systems.

As part of OS Day, a wide range of domestic system software development was presented, including commercial and scientific projects. Among them: Linux distributions Rosa and Alt Linux, real-time OS “Baguette 3.0”, operating systems ReactOS, Phantom OS, Parallels virtualization tools, hardware and software platform “Elbrus”, specialized developments of “Ramensky Instrument-Planning Design Bureau”, a solution for embedded Embox systems.

Among other things, the conference discussed the procedure for dividing funds from a specialized financial fund that is being created by the state. The Head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has promised that the fund will function for at least five years.

Among the participants of the OS Day conference: Dmitry Zavalishin, CEO of DZ Systems holding, creator of Phantom OS; Vladimir Rubanov, President and General Designer of ROSA; Alexey Bragin, director of the REAKTOS Foundation; Alexey Novodvorsky, Deputy General Director, Alt Linux; Alexey Khoroshilov, Leading Researcher, ISP RAS; Mikhail Filippov, Project Manager, Parallels Containers for Windows; Evgeny Kravtsunov, leading developer of the operating systems department of CJSC “MCST”.