Head of the NRC Kurchatov Institute, Mikhail Kovalchuk, Director of the Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Arutyun Avetisyan, and Head of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Grigory Trubnikov, signed an agreement to create a consortium for IT support of megascience-class infrastructure. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Cabinet.
The event was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko. He recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin had set the government the task of achieving technological sovereignty. This will be possible, among other things, thanks to megascience-class facilities (large research complexes that allow for discoveries in the field of fundamental sciences).
They will help collect unique scientific data, for the processing of which large computing power is important
By the end of 2030, the IT consortium should ensure the transfer of petabytes of data per year. It will connect to the National Research Computer Network.
Currently, the performance of supercomputers is growing worldwide. The total power of computing equipment in the top 500 amounted to 7 exaflops. For comparison, a performance of 1 exaflop means that a supercomputer can perform a quintillion operations per second.