Russian supercomputers will be combined into a single network
St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, the Interdepartmental Supercomputer Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research have signed an agreement on the unification of supercomputers into a single network.
It involves combining high-performance computing resources into an integrated network and creating an ecosystem of a professional user community by organizing collaborative research in universities, laboratories, research institutes and enterprises.
Research and engineering centers will have the opportunity to work with big data in a distributed manner in supercomputer centers, and researchers and developers will have global access to machine learning services and big data analytics.
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko, who was present at the signing ceremony, recalled that the President of the country ordered to expand the territorial availability and bandwidth of the National Research Computer Network, and noted that the agreement is an important step in solving this problem.
Currently, NIKS provides services to more than 150 organizations of higher education and science in 34 regions, by 2024 all universities and scientific organizations will be connected to the system, quotes the words of the deputy chairman of the government RIA Novosti.
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