Russia climbed to the ninth line in the world ranking of supercomputers
In terms of total performance in the rating of supercomputers, Russia took 8th place in the world, in terms of total peak performance – 9th, in terms of the number of supercomputers in the Top500, Russia took 9th place in the world – we have the same number of systems with South Korea. Today, Russia has seven supercomputers, four more than a year earlier. Three new machines were created by the company “Yandex“.
According to the official message “Yandex”, received in “Vedomosti“, In December 2020, the company put into operation the Lyapunov supercomputer, June 2021 – Chervonenkis and Galushkin.
The Chervonenkis supercomputer showed a performance of 21.53 petaflops (Pf), that is, 21.53 million floating point operations per second. The productivity of Galushkin was 16.02 Pf, Lyapunov – 12.81 Pf. Systems “Chervonenkis” and “Lyapunov” are located in the data center of “Yandex” in the city of Sasov, Ryazan region, “Galushkin” – in Vladimir. Computing nodes of the Chervonenkis and Galushkin systems project based on the project of Yandex employees. All new systems are based on AMD EPYC processors and Nvidia A100 graphics accelerators, the company said. Irina Shekhovtsova, head of communications at Nvidia Russia, confirmed to Vedomosti that Yandex’s supercomputers are based on Nvidia solutions.
Supercomputers allow Yandex to translate texts and videos more accurately and faster, display more relevant ads, select quick answers in search, and also maintain a dialogue with a person to voice assistant Alice, the company representative explains. He did not disclose the volume of investments in the creation of supercomputers.
Only the supercomputer “Yandex” “Chervonenkis” can cost $ 7-10 million, estimates and. O. Director of the A.K. Ailamazyan Institute of Software Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-coordinator of the National Supercomputer Technological Platform Sergey Abramov.
A significant part of Yandex’s expenses is traditionally the purchase of servers, capital expenses of the analyst. Alfa Bank Anna Kurbatova. According to Yandex, in the fourth quarter of 2020 capex amounted to 7.2 billion rubles, in the first quarter – 3.6 billion rubles. In the second and third quarters of this year, Yandex’s capital expenditures increased to 13.7 billion and 8.5 billion rubles. respectively, which also includes capital expenditures for the development of the logistics infrastructure “Yandex… Market ”, the analyst notes. In the same time “Yandex»As an IT company, reflects the cost of internal product development as a product development cost rather than a capital cost. Expenses under this item increased from RUB 10 billion. in the IV quarter of 2020 to 12.2 billion rubles. in the III quarter of 2021 “The point is that supercomputers will improve the functionality of the company’s services,” notes Kurbatova. – The link with the offer for revenue can be made here, but only indirectly: better service (against the background and in comparison with similar services of other players on the market) – more user requests (higher usage rates) – higher revenue. We are not in a position to directly assess the financial impact of supercomputers on the company’s future earnings. “Search and Portal”, continuing from year to year at a high level of 25-30% year to year ”. better service (against the background and in comparison with similar services of other players on the market) – more user requests (higher usage rates) – higher revenue. We are not in a position to directly assess the financial impact of supercomputers on the company’s future earnings. “Search and Portal”, continuing from year to year at a high level of 25-30% year to year ”. better service (against the background and in comparison with similar services of other players on the market) – more user requests (higher usage rates) – higher revenue. We are unable to directly assess the financial impact of supercomputers on the company’s future earnings. “Search and Portal”, continuing from year to year at a high level of 25-30% year to year ”.
In terms of performance, Chervonenkis, Galushkin and Lyapunov are the most powerful public supercomputers in Russia. Until yesterday, the most productive supercomputer of Sberbank Christofari Neo, presented at the international conference on read intelligence AI Journey on November 11. According to Sberbank, its productivity is 11.95 PF. And before that, the Christofari supercomputer of Sberbank of 2019 was called the most powerful. With a power indicator of 6.669 PF, Christofari took the 61st place in the world ranking of Top500 supercomputers in June 2021. In June, this rating also included the Lomonosov and Moscow State University supercomputers. MTS THUNDER.
In the November rating of the most popular supercomputers in the world, Chervonenkis takes 20th place, Galushkin – 37th, Lyapunov – 41st, Christofari Neo – 44th, Christofari – 73rd, Lomonosov – 243rd, GROM – 296th. The share of performance of systems from Russia of the total Top500 increased 6 times – from 0.4% in June 2021 to 2.4% in November 2021 and amounted to 73.7 Pf.
The introduction of new supercomputers “Yandex” several times improves the computing power of Russia, says Abramov. If at the end of November 2021 this figure was 2.4%, then it approached the record 2.51% of the world’s computing power, which reached Russia in 2010, he noted.
“At the same time, we cannot talk about a full-fledged state supercomputer infrastructure, because the majority of supercomputers belong to other companies and will work in their interests,” Abramov concluded.