The "MSU-270" supercomputer was launched at Moscow State University on Friday, and it has already started performing test tasks. This was announced by the Dean of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University, Igor Sokolov.
It is already working, we are solving test problems. I think that in 3 months we will have a result. It is planned to summarize the results of the first months of work in December: to see what happened, what needs to be adjusted.
According to Igor Sokolov, the test tasks are related to image analysis and the field of medicine. And in the future, with the help of the supercomputer, they plan to develop solutions that will allow teachers to monitor the attention of younger schoolchildren in the classroom.
We are now helping teachers: younger schoolchildren lose attention very quickly. The teacher must quickly track this and react, and this is literally a few minutes. Therefore, [we need] systems that will tell the teacher who to pay attention to.
The development of "MSU-270" has been underway since 2020 with the participation of several university departments. The calculated power of the supercomputer is 400 petaflops of AI per second - this parameter reflects the highest data processing speed when performing specialized tasks for AI systems that do not require saving intermediate calculation results.