14 DAY TRIAL // Russia's first petaflop capable supercomputer just came into operation at the Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation in Sarov. The machine has a sustained performance of 780 teraflops, making it the 12th-fastest system in the world in an unofficial Supercomputer TOP500 list.
Apart from its performances not so many details about the supercomputer are known, but the Inside HPC publication believes the system is built using processors based on the x86 architecture.
This could indeed be the case as its 78% efficiency is in line with what we should expect from a CPU-based machine.
“The recent introduction of a supercomputer of petaflop class at the Russian Federal nuclear center 'All-Russian Experimental Physics Research Institute' in Sarov is a great event in Russia's science and technology,” said academician Andrei Kokoshin of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“It is important that this supercomputer is also based on the original products of the development efforts of the experimental physics institute and that this computing system is provided with software, the main components of which have also been devised and adapted by the Institute's specialists.”
“This supercomputer will serve as a tangible contribution to the strengthening of national security and national competitiveness of Russia,” concluded Kokoshin.
At the end of last year, Russia has announced that is getting ready to enter the supercomputing race with a new HPC systems that was supposed to reach a peak performance of 1.3 petaflops.
The machine, that was to be installed at the Lomonsov Moscow State University, was suppose to become the first Russian supercomputer to reach the petaflop barrier, but the Rosatom system beat it to the punch.
Until now, Russia's fastest system was a 350 teraflop T-Platforms machine found at the University of Moscow, which was ranked number 17 in the TOP500 list and used Intel Xeon X5570 to deliver most of its power.