The Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) plans to implement the GIGA project worth
900 million rubles , which provides for the creation of a supercomputer with a capacity of
50-100 teraflops / s during 2010-2012, the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region informs of the report with reference to the results of the meeting between the Chairman of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region Anatoly Gredin and the Chairman of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Charushin.

“The project assumes an increase in the productivity of the supercomputer center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences up to 50-100 teraflop / s, which will allow us to become one of the world leaders. In addition, our supercomputer will be connected to a high-speed network with other domestic computing systems. It is also planned to create a data storage center with a capacity of 1 thousand terabytes, ”the words of V. Charushin are given in the message.
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The GIGA project will be implemented by the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Perm), the bulk of the funds are planned to be received from the federal budget.
“In a most active way, large and medium business should be involved in this work, its representatives have an interest in this area. In the development of the project it is necessary to attract private investments, ”the words of A. Gredin are quoted in the message.
Earlier it was reported that the performance of a supercomputer operating in Yekaterinburg is up to 20 teraflops per second. The supercomputer in Yekaterinburg has more than 400 quad-core Intel processors. The cost of a supercomputer, software, cooling and power systems is 60-70 million rubles.
Scientists have announced a desire to create a supercomputer with a capacity of 100 teraflops per second with a storage capacity of 100 terabytes. For these purposes they needed 700 million rubles.
There are currently four supercomputers in the Urals Federal District. One of the largest supercomputers in Russia is located in FSUE RFNC-VNIITF named after academician E.I. Zababakhin (Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region). Supercomputers also operate at the South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk), the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Yekaterinburg). Another supercomputer with a capacity of up to 12 teraflops per second was created in Khanty-Mansiysk.
Will he be able to lead the
top at the end of production, or at least be among the top five?
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