Academic Supercomputing in
Europe
Russian Federation
Statistics
Population: 143.8 million
GDP/capita: €8,700
Policy
In 1996 the Russian Academy of
Sciences (RAS), the Ministry of Science and Technologies of the Russian
Federation, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and the
Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) established the Joint
Supercomputer Center (JSCC) in Moscow with the goal to provide
HPC-services to Russian academic researchers.
http://www.jscc.ru
The Russian Institute for
Public Networks (RIPN) was founded in 1992 to develop computer
communications in the research and education area. RIPN is responsible
for the national network RBNet.
http://www.ripn.net
Supercomputing facilities for
the academia
- IMPB RAS: Beowulf cluster (10 PIII/800 + 16 Athlon/1200 + 4 Athlon/1660)
- JINR: Beowulf cluster (16 Athlon/2000 + 40 PIII/1000 + 16 PIII/500)
- JSCC: IBM cluster (912 PowerPC970/2200), HP cluster (256 Itanium2/1500),
IBM cluster (336 PC970/1600), HP SuperDome/64, Beowulf cluster (768 EV67/667), cluster
(200 EV6/500), Beowulf cluster (16 Xeon/2400), Bepwulf cluster (2
Athlon MP1900 + 14 Athlon MP1800), Beowulf cluster (32 PIII/550)
- MSU: IBM pSeries 690/16
- PNPI: Beowulf cluster (4
Xeon/2400 + 6 P4/2660 + 2 PII/450 + 2 PIII/866 + 2 PIII/1000)
- SSCC: cluster (24 EV67/833)
Acquisition and upgrade plans
- JSCC: Upgrade of the IBM cluster to 8 Tflop/s in 2005.
National academic network
RBNet – the Russian
Backbone Network – provides Internet access to the
universities and the research community in Russia. RBNet links access
nodes in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Rostov-na-Donu, Samara, Ekaterinburg,
Novosibirsk, Irkutsk and Khabarovsk. Each of these nodes is itself the
centre of a star-shaped regional network. The typical link speed is 2
Mbps. RBNet has a 155 Mbps link to GÉANT and a 622 Mbps
connection to NORDUnet. The 2004 budget is €3.5 million. It
is provided by the government (80%) and the users.
http://www.ripn.net/rbnet/en
National GRID
The Russian Data Intensive Grid (RDIG)
is a collaboration of 8 research institutes in Moscow, Dubna, Provitno
and Sankt Petersburg: SINP, MSU, JINR, ITEP, IMPB RAS, IHEP, RRC "KI", KIAM RAS,
and PNPI. RDIG is a national federation in EGEE
http://www.egee-rdig.ru/
List of abbreviations
- IMPB Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
- JINR Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
- JSCC Joint Supercomputer Center, Moscow
- MSU Moscow State University
- PNPI Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
- SSSC Siberian Supercomputer Center, Novosibirsk
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