On Friday, the supercomputer 'MSU-270' was launched at Moscow State University (MSU), and it has already begun to undertake test tasks. This was reported by Igor Sokolov, the Dean of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at MSU.
It's already in operation, we're solving test tasks. I think we'll have results in 3 months. The plan is to summarize the first months of work in December: to see what worked out and what needs improvements.
According to Igor Sokolov, the test tasks are related to image analysis and the field of medicine. In the future, they plan to develop solutions using the supercomputer that will allow teachers to monitor the attention of primary students during lessons.
We're currently helping teachers: primary students lose their attention very quickly. The teacher needs to quickly track this and respond, and it's a matter of few minutes. Hence systems are needed which will suggest to the teacher who to pay attention to.
The 'MSU-270' was developed since 2020 with the participation of several university departments. The supercomputer's computational capacity is 400 petaflops AI per second - this parameter reflects the highest speed of data processing when performing specialized tasks for AI systems that do not require the storage of intermediate computational results.