On November 2-3, 2009, the 9th international conference “Parallel Computing on Cluster Systems” took place at Vladimir State University (VlSU) in the Russian city of Vladimir. Within the framework of the event T-Platforms, the Russian supercomputer holding and the conference partner, and the Regional Center for New Information Technology of VISU made a presentation about Russian supercomputers in science and education.

The presentation highlighted the major problems of supercomputer implementation and use in science and education organizations, the problems solution options and the effectiveness of the modern Russian HPC technology. Above all, T-Platforms revealed some details on its latest developments and current supercomputer projects.

The conference was organized by the Supercomputer Consortium of Russia’s Universities.Vladimir State University is a member of the Consortium and T-Platforms is an associated member of this organization. VlSU owns one of the CIS top 50 most powerful supercomputers. It is a system with performance of 4.77Tflops developed and implemented by T-Platforms. The supercomputer occupies the 23rd position of the current list of the Top50 most powerful computers of Russia and the CIS and is one of the few systems in the region with hybrid architecture, i.e. – using different types of processors.

The international seminar-conference “Parallel Computing on Cluster Systems” has been organized annually since 2001. The event’s mission is to highlight the current range of problems of using HPC systems and provide foreign and Russian specialists with an opportunity to share their experience and knowledge in this field.

About the companies

T-Platforms holding is the leading Russian developer and manufacturer of turn-key solutions for high-performance computing. The holding offers a full range of HPC products and services, including utility computing, large-scale modeling and simulation, and comprehensive management of customer supercomputer sites. T-Platforms is the only Russia-based company to have five in-house developed solutions rated in several editions of the global Top 500 list of the most powerful computers. Since 2002 T-Platforms has successfully implemented over 150 HPC projects, delivering the most powerful supercomputers to date in Russia and the CIS countries in 2004, 2007 and 2008. For more information about the company, please visit http://www.t-platforms.ru/.

Vladimir State University (VlSU) – one of the leading and largest higher education institutions of the Vladimir Region, one of its culture and science centers. VlSU has the leading positions in the region regarding IT development and implementation in various structures of local and federal levels. The university has an IT-computing center providing service to all university departments. VlSU has cooperation relations with over 40 universities and is a base for over 30 education and science centers. For more information about the university, please visit http://www.vlsu.ru.