Second stage of expansion of the SUSU Tornado supercomputer

The second stage of expansion of the Tornado SUSU supercomputer has been completed. The supercomputer received an additional 192 multi-core Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. The performance of the supercomputer increased to 473.6 TFlops. After the expansion, the supercomputer rose to the 3rd position in 20th edition of the Top50 list  ;the most powerful computers in the CIS.

SUSU LCM staff took part in the international supercomputer exhibition SC’2013

From November 17 to November 22, Denver (USA) hosted the 25th annual world’s largest conference on supercomputing Supercomputing Conference 2013 (SC’13). Within the framework of the conference, an exhibition was held, where manufacturers of supercomputers and software, as well as the world’s leading universities working in the field of supercomputing technologies, demonstrated their achievements.

SUSU LCM staff took part in the international supercomputer exhibition ISC’2013

The 28th annual supercomputing exhibition-conference was held in Leipzig (Germany) from 16 to 20 June International Supercomputing Conference 2013 (ISC’13) — one of the world’s largest events dedicated to high-performance computing and supercomputing technologies. The 41st edition of the world ranking of supercomputing systemsTop500 was announced at the conference. The list includes two supercomputers of South Ural State University: “Tornado SUSU” and “SKIF-Aurora SUSU”, ranking 249th and 471st respectively.

International Supercomputer Conference PaVT’2013 Held at SUSU

1–5 April 2013  at South Ural State National Research University with financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Researchthe 7th international scientific conference “Parallel Computing Technologies (PCT)”. The founders of the conference are Russian Academy of Sciences and Supercomputer Consortium of Russian Universities. The PAW Conference is an annual scientific event held in major scientific centers of Russia. The scientific forum in Chelyabinsk brought together 240 scientists from 35 cities of Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Germany, Switzerland and the USA. The conference participants represented 90 organizations, including 29 institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and research institutes, 30 universities, 23 representatives of the IT industry and 8 representatives of industry.

Extension of the SUSU Tornado supercomputer

Supercomputer «Tornado SUSU» expanded with 192 of the latest multi-core Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. The performance of the supercomputer has increased to 236.7 TFlops. The result of the expansion of the supercomputer was the 4th place in 18th edition of the Top50 list of the most powerful computers in the CIS.

SSUSU LCM staff took part in the international supercomputer exhibition SC’2012

The 24th annual world’s largest conference on supercomputing technologies was held in Salt Lake City (USA) November 10-16Supercomputing Conference 2012 (SC’12). Within the framework of the conference, an exhibition was held, at which 363 organizations demonstrated their achievements:  manufacturers of supercomputers and software, as well as the world’s leading universities working in the field of supercomputer technologies. During the conference sessions, new editions of list of the TOP500 most powerful supercomputers in the world&nbsp ;(40th edition) and GREEN500 most energy efficient supercomputers (12- th edition).  «SUSU Tornado»  and«SKIF-Aurora SUSU» developed by the Russian company “RSK”, took the 170th and 303rd places respectively in the TOP500 list.

The 17th edition of the Top 50 list has been published

The Research Computing Center of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Interdepartmental Supercomputing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences announce the release of the seventeenth edition of the list Tor50 the most powerful computers in the CIS. The announcement of the new version of the list took place on September 18 at the International Supercomputer Conference “Scientific Service on the Internet: Search for New Solutions”, held by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Supercomputer Consortium of Russian Universities with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. The supercomputer “SKIF-Aurora SUSU” took the fourth position in the rating, showing a performance of 100.35 trillion operations per second (TFlop/s) on the LINPACK test.

SSUSU LCM staff took part in the international supercomputer exhibition ISC’2012

The 27th annual largest international conference on supercomputing technologies was held in Hamburg (Germany) from 17 to 21 June International Supercomputing Conference 2012 (ISC’12). The conference was attended by a record number of guests in the history of the event – 2403 people from 57 countries of the world. Within the framework of the conference, exhibition was held, where expositions were presented 175 organizations leading in the field of high-performance technologies and offering their solutions in the field of supercomputing and distributed computing (manufacturers of supercomputing equipment and technology platforms, universities, research institutes, research centers).

National Research South Ural State University has signed cooperation agreements with leading German supercomputer centers.

From 9 to 15 October a delegation SUSU Supercomputer Simulation Laboratoriesvisited the leading German supercomputer centers: Stuttgart Center for High Performance Computing (High performance computing center Stuttgart – HLRS), Institute for Parallel and Distributed Computing, University of Stuttgart (Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems – IPVS), Institute for Advanced Modeling (Institute for Advanced Simulation) Jülich Supercomputing Center, Heidelberg Institute for Informatics University. The result of the trip was the signing of agreements with these centers on cooperation in the field of high performance computing and supercomputing education.

SUSU, together with the Intel Corporation and the RSC company, implemented the educational platform “Personal Virtual Computer” based on cloud computing in the secondary educational school No.67 in Chelyabinsk

September 30, 2011 National Research South Ural State University, Intel Corporation and RSK Group of Companies announced the implementation of a joint project for the implementation of the innovative educational platform “Personal Virtual Computer” in the secondary educational school No.67 of Chelyabinsk (PVC) based on cloud computing. Journalists from Moscow arrived at a press conference dedicated to this event (representatives of online publications Science and Technologies of Russia, Tom’s Hardware Guide, news agency REGNUM, magazine ” Bulletin of Education of Russia”) and Chelyabinsk.

SUSU took part in the international supercomputer exhibition ISC’2011

From June 19 to June 23, Hamburg (Germany) hosted the largest international conference on supercomputing technologies International Supercomputing Conference 2011 (ISC ’11). More than 2,000 people from 52 countries of the world took part in the conference. Within the framework of the conference, exhibition was held, which presented expositions of 152 organizations offering their solutions in the field of supercomputer technologies and distributed computing (manufacturers of supercomputer equipment and technological platforms, universities, research institutes, research centers). Russia was represented at the exhibition by four organizations: Lomonosov Moscow State University, South Ural State University, RSK and T-Platforms.

Seminar “Cloud Computing in Engineering Education” Held at SUSU

On May 27, 2011, the National Research South Ural State University hosted a scientific and methodological seminar “Cloud Computing in Engineering Education”, organized by SUSU together with Intel Corporation and RSK SKIF. The seminar was devoted to the introduction of innovative technologies of cloud computing (cloud computing) into the educational process. Particular attention was paid to the problems of improving the quality of engineering education through the use of cloud computing in laboratory work on supercomputer engineering modeling.

SUSU Supercomputer is the third in the TOP50 rating

At the International Conference “Parallel Computing Technologies”, held in Moscow on April 29-31, 2011, the fourteenth edition of the list Top50 of the most powerful supercomputers in the CIS. The supercomputer “SKIF-Aurora SUSU” took the third position in the rating, showing at  =1&topic=1″>LINPACK test performance 100 TFlop/s.

SUSU Tornado Supercomputer

A new supercomputer Tornado SUSU was put into operation at SUSU, the performance of the supercomputer was  236.8 TFlops.

Seminar with a demonstration of “SKIF-Aurora SUSU” for the scientific community

November 25, 2010 SUSU National Research University Seminar “Supercomputer SKIF-Aurora” was held organized by the SUSU-Intel Competence Center in the field of high-performance computer technologies for engineering modeling. At this seminar, after modernization, the innovative energy-efficient supercomputer “SKIF-Aurora SUSU” was presented.

Presentation of the SUSU SKIF-Aurora supercomputer

June 28, 2010 as part of a joint press conference in Chelyabinsk, organized by South Ural State University, A.K. Ailamazyan RAS, company «RSK SKIF» and  Intel Corporation held the first demonstration of the supercomputer SKIF-Aurora SUSU with peak performance of 24 TFlops. Governor of the Chelyabinsk region M.V. Yurevich and SUSU Rector A.L. Shestakov. Photo essay from presentation.

Regional meeting on the development of supercomputer and grid technologies was held

The Regional Meeting on  development of supercomputer and grid technologies was held in Chelyabinsk, organized by the Government of the Chelyabinsk Region with the participation of South Ural State University. For the first time in the Russian Federation, within a separate region, a special concept was developed and adopted, aimed at more active use of supercomputer and grid technologies for development of the local economy and scientific potential. Photo essay from presentation.

SuperEngineering program launched

Launched at South Ural State University «SuperEngineering». The program is based SUSU-Intel Competence Center in the field of high-performance computer technologies for engineering modeling< span>. The goal of the program is the wide introduction of the methods and technologies of supercomputer engineering modeling into the educational process and practice of                graduate postgraduate students, staff and teachers of SUSU.

SUSU expands its supercomputer capacities on the basis of a new line of SKIF series 4 supercomputers

New  supercomputer  with peak performance of 24 TFlops ranked 450th place in the  34th edition of the Top500 list of the 500 most powerful computers in the world. Photo essay from presentation.

Intel and SUSU Created Competence Center for High-Performance Computer Technologies for Engineering Simulation

Intel Corporation and South Ural State University (SUSU) signed an Agreement on  intentions, which provides for the implementation of a number of areas of joint activities within the organized in accordance with document  Competence Center in the field of high-performance computer technologies for&nbsp ;engineering modeling.

SKIF-Aurora takes 450th place in the TOP 500 world ranking

Superengineering program launched at South Ural State UniversitySuperEngineering program. The program is based on  SUSU-Intel Competence Center in high-performance computer technologies for engineering modeling. The goal of the program is the wide introduction of the methods and technologies of supercomputer engineering modeling into the educational process and practice of                graduate postgraduate students, staff and teachers of SUSU.

The SKIF Ural supercomputer joined the SKIF Polygon supercomputer network

Supercomputer «SKIF Ural», along with supercomputers SKIF MGU (Moscow) , SKIF Cyberia (Tomsk), SKIF K 1000(Minsk) and a number of others entered into the SKIF Polygon supercomputer network formed by the largest supercomputer centers in Russia and Belarus as part of  "SKIF-GRID" Union State. The total capacity of the SKIF Polygon, after the inclusion of a supercomputer in   SKIF Ural» exceeded 100 Teraflops.

Presentation of the SKIF Ural supercomputer

Photo report from the presentation of the supercomputer«SKIF Ural».

SKIF Ural ranked 282nd in the TOP 500

June 18, 2008 at European Supercomputing Conference in Dresden 31 editions of the list 500 most powerful computers in the world . For the first time in the history of this prestigious rating, the list included Ural  «SKIF Ural» (282 place).< /p>

SUSU Supercomputing Center was created

Supercomputer Center (SKC) of SUSU was created by the decision of the Academician Council of the University as a structural subdivision of South Ural State University. The main goal of SKC is to support the educational process in the field of mastering parallel computing technologies in all areas of training related to supercomputer modeling and analysis in applied and fundamental research, and to provide training of world-class specialists for realization of the transition of the economy on an innovative way of development.

“SKIF Ural took fourth place in the CIS TOP 50

According to the 8th edition of the rating TOP 50 SKIF Ural supercomputer  ranks 4th among the most powerful computers in the CIS.

As part of the Education national project, SUSU received the most powerful supercomputer in the Urals

For the implementation of the national project «Education» 75 million rubles were allocated, taking into account co-financing, for which the university purchased a new supercomputer, with peak performance of 16 TFlops.

Modernization of high-performance computing cluster “Infinity”

As part of the priority national project"Education" for high-performance computing cluster  «Infinity» purchased SCSI RAID 4 x 160 Gb and uninterruptible power supply 15kW.

Extension of high-performance computing cluster “Infinity”

«Infinity » is supplemented with a third rack, which allowed to increase its performance up to 333 billion operations per second.

SUSU Acquired Infinity High-Performance Computing Cluster

Purchased, installed and put into operation High Performance Compute Cluster  parallel computing lab.