Supercomputer uncertain architecture for 65 million rubles
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That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the news about the meeting between Vladimir Putin and the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuri Osipov.
The content of their conversation just plunged me first into a stupor, then caused a nervous laugh.
So, what they talked about, and why it caused such a reaction, look under the cut.
Of course, the allocation of money for the development of the domestic computer industry is good, very good.
But allocating money to a system for which the architecture has not yet been defined, and only about performance is known (6Tflops, it is also not clear how they thought), this, I tell you, causes certain thoughts.
During the conversation, the Prime Minister and President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yury Osipov, was the last to tell Vladimir Putin about a “fundamentally new type of computer with 6 Tflops” . At the same time, he said that this computer “is already working” , and also called the development “absolute know-how” . To support all this, he asked for 65 million rubles.
Also, in a conversation, he made a promise, subject to funding, by the end of the year to make a computer with a performance of 1Pflops .
So far, everything looks quite joyful, although it is hard to believe, of course.
After searching the Internet, I found the same news on CNews, whose journalists were not ashamed to ask questions to the developers of this miracle system (Keldysh Institute of Apparatus and Kvant Research Institute), who answered the following.
Director of the Research Institute “Kvant” - “We are now awaiting the final decision on which version of the architecture from those that we discussed will be chosen. We carried out a number of developments, but it’s better to contact IPM for details about the supercomputer . ”
IPM them. Keldysh - “There is no machine yet, it is being created. At the meeting with the Prime Minister, the question of the need for its development was being resolved. If the supercomputer appears, it will be in the IPM ". They refused to tell the technical details to the journalists by phone, citing their complexity.
Also, the general director of T-Platform said that this computer is based on graphics accelerators.
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What we have in the draft is an incomprehensible “new architecture”, which most likely is nothing more than a fake.
Dubious "development" worth 65 million rubles.
Some strange nonsense about "optimization algorithms and low power consumption."
The figure is very similar to the cost of the turnkey supercomputer.
Many, many oddities.
Habrasoobshchestvo, what do you think about this?
Upd. Link to the news: www.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2010/04/16/386907
Strugatsky brothers ©
That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the news about the meeting between Vladimir Putin and the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuri Osipov.
The content of their conversation just plunged me first into a stupor, then caused a nervous laugh.
So, what they talked about, and why it caused such a reaction, look under the cut.
Of course, the allocation of money for the development of the domestic computer industry is good, very good.
But allocating money to a system for which the architecture has not yet been defined, and only about performance is known (6Tflops, it is also not clear how they thought), this, I tell you, causes certain thoughts.
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During the conversation, the Prime Minister and President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yury Osipov, was the last to tell Vladimir Putin about a “fundamentally new type of computer with 6 Tflops” . At the same time, he said that this computer “is already working” , and also called the development “absolute know-how” . To support all this, he asked for 65 million rubles.
Also, in a conversation, he made a promise, subject to funding, by the end of the year to make a computer with a performance of 1Pflops .
So far, everything looks quite joyful, although it is hard to believe, of course.
After searching the Internet, I found the same news on CNews, whose journalists were not ashamed to ask questions to the developers of this miracle system (Keldysh Institute of Apparatus and Kvant Research Institute), who answered the following.
Director of the Research Institute “Kvant” - “We are now awaiting the final decision on which version of the architecture from those that we discussed will be chosen. We carried out a number of developments, but it’s better to contact IPM for details about the supercomputer . ”
IPM them. Keldysh - “There is no machine yet, it is being created. At the meeting with the Prime Minister, the question of the need for its development was being resolved. If the supercomputer appears, it will be in the IPM ". They refused to tell the technical details to the journalists by phone, citing their complexity.
Also, the general director of T-Platform said that this computer is based on graphics accelerators.
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Thoughts
What we have in the draft is an incomprehensible “new architecture”, which most likely is nothing more than a fake.
Dubious "development" worth 65 million rubles.
Some strange nonsense about "optimization algorithms and low power consumption."
The figure is very similar to the cost of the turnkey supercomputer.
Many, many oddities.
Habrasoobshchestvo, what do you think about this?
Upd. Link to the news: www.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2010/04/16/386907
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/91374/
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