Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order approving a roadmap for the development of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence algorithms, grid technologies, and supercomputer infrastructure. The document was published on the government website on March 16. The Ministry of Education and Science will coordinate the implementation of the roadmap. The Ministry of Digital Development, Labor Ministry, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Industry and Trade, as well as state corporations and universities: Rosatom, Rostec, Roscosmos, NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences will be involved in the work. President Vladimir Putin instructed the government in April 2025 to consider the creation of a national supercomputer center.
Roadmap for supercomputers: what exactly is planned to be done in Russia
The document includes several areas. The first is the formation of unified requirements for collective use supercomputer centers and the procedure for access to them by the scientific community and key industrial organizations. The second is the development of a strategy for the development and rules for the functioning of the National Research Computer Network of a new generation, which already unites hundreds of leading universities and scientific organizations and provides access to existing supercomputer centers.
The third direction is the concept of a federal scientific and technical program providing for the creation and implementation of domestic algorithms, methods and software for supercomputer calculations in various sectors of the economy. As part of the same program, it is planned to develop educational programs in supercomputer technologies.
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Supercomputers are used in the creation of new materials, the development of medicines, digital modeling of products, weather forecasting and the training of artificial intelligence models, the order says. Prior to the adoption of the roadmap, there were no uniform requirements for supercomputer centers in Russia - each organization built infrastructure independently, without common standards for access and development.
Expanding our own supercomputer capabilities is very important for increasing the competitiveness of Russian industries and strengthening the country's technological sovereignty
Russia still lags significantly behind the world leaders in supercomputer computing. According to the Top500 ranking for November 2024, there is not a single Russian system in the top ten - the list is headed by American and European machines. The roadmap is the first systemic tool that should change this picture by coordinating the resources of state corporations, universities and relevant ministries.
The emergence of the roadmap means a transition from point investments in supercomputers to a systemic policy. The involvement of Rosatom, Rostec and Roscosmos - organizations with their own computing power and tasks - signals that the infrastructure will not be built from scratch, but through the integration of existing centers under common standards.
