In 2018 "The total dictation" was written by more than 250 thousand people from 76 countries of the world

2018: The number of participants of "A total dictation" exceeded 250 thousand people

In 2018 the Total dictation set up new records: it was written by more than 250 thousand people in 76 countries of the world, and the online audience grew by 25% in comparison with last year, reported TAdviser on February 19, 2019 in Servionica company.

Taking into account experience of last years specialists of Servionica in cooperation with a command of the Total dictation and other partners developed the updated IT architecture of the project. Application of a complex of modern technical solutions on the platform of a public cloud from Servionika allowed to ensure stable functioning of the website. It was especially important in the conditions of planned and unplanned peak loads: when thousands of participants around the world wrote a dictation online, watched broadcastings or visited the website to learn the assessment.

In process of growth of number of participants of the Total dictation offline we saw also increase in Internet audience. For ensuring stable work the website was transferred to a cloud. At the same time the updated virtual architecture of the website is ready to a bigger growth of users and stable use both in day of a dictation, and within a year during online courses. Such virtual organization of the Total dictation was also estimated by judges — Zoya Kostyreva, the IT coordinator of the Total dictation explained.

The total dictation began as the project of students of Novosibirsk State University, but very quickly outgrew a framework of university audiences. Today it is the largest international initiative of promoting of Russian.

In process of development of the project it became obvious that the existing IT infrastructure does not provide necessary support of the growing loadings and scales. At the initiative of Servionica company the Total dictation passed into a cloud. Since 2015 it was carried out on a cloud platform of Servionika, since 2018 – in the Business cloud of Sbklaud company unrolled in one of the most reliable and large DPCs of Russia – TrustInfo.

In 2019 based on a cloud platform Sbklaud was reorganized one of key stages of the project: check of works and their issue to participants. It was possible to receive only a paper copy of work earlier. Now it is possible to receive estimates literally "from a cloud": instead of the labor-consuming procedure of obtaining paper originals of the checked works the scan copy can be downloaded in the Personal account of the participant on the project website. It became possible thanks to a new element of IT infrastructure of the Total dictation: To the cloud storage. It was unrolled in the Business cloud Sbklaud based on DPC TrustInfo (TierIII).

For the first time in the history of the project possibilities of the protected cloud platform and technologies of stream digitization and data storage, the organization of the protected geodistributed access for a team of volunteers and experts of the project were integrated.

More than 26000 works from the most mass regions of the project – Moscow and Novosibirsk – after check were scanned, loaded into the cloud storage on the Sbklaud platform unrolled in data center TrustInfo and from there are distributed on Personal accounts of project participants on the website of the Total dictation. Forms of participants from Moscow with the put-down marks were delivered from the headquarters of "A total dictation" to the production site of ELAR for scanning and indexing. The received electronic array and base of results loaded into a cloud Sbklaud it were provided to organizers through the protected high-speed access.

Longer technology way was done by results of "A total dictation" from Novosibirsk: from "cloud" in ELAR and back. Checked by the same principle, as in Moscow, dictations of the Novosibirsk participants were scanned on places and loaded into the cloud storage Sbklaud to whom a secure access was provided to operators of ELAR. It allowed to accelerate and simplify mass check of works and the publication of results of the Total dictation-2019. The solution confirmed the efficiency and will be applied in the Total dictation of 2020.

2017

Preparation for "A total dictation" of 2018

The world cultural project "Total dictation" and the Russian service provider IT outsourcing "Servionika" (AiTeco Group ") began preparation for the next season. specialists Servionica will take part in development and testing of the updated architecture of the project expected growth of number of the participants writing it in the online mode. "The total dictation" will take place on April 14, 2018.

From year to year interest in the Total Dictation project grows, and its audience significantly extends, respectively, load of the website raises, its structure and functionality become complicated. Helps to develop the website and prepare it for the increasing loadings for us a team of professionals – IT partner of a dictation. The best people and the latest technologies are involved in the project, it gives to confidence that in 2018 we will be ready to significant growth of participants of an online dictation and users of the website totaldict.ru, – Olga Rebkovets, the Total Dictation project manager shared plans.

In 2018, according to forecasts of organizers of "A total dictation", the number of online participating considerably will exceed indicators of 2017 when broadcasting on the website of the project was looked by more than 90 thousand people, and about 23 thousand people wrote it in an online format. Thus, reliable support of the project will require even more productive and failsafe infrastructure. As well as in last years, computing resources of the project will be unrolled on a cloud platform of MakeCloud developed by Servionika and the Cloud 100 service on the basis of high-performance hardware solutions of Huawei and Mellanox will be used for support of the Total dictation. Besides, development of strategy of information security support during an action, including actions for counteraction to the hacker attacks will become important aspect of preparation for a dictation-2018.

The Servionica company acts as the technology partner of an educational event "A total dictation" the third year in a row. Participation in this action is interesting to us in terms of use of cloud competences and solutions within the large-scale international project. Possibilities of a cloud platform of MakeCloud will ensure stable functioning of the website and will allow everyone to join a dictation online, – the director of Competence center, the head IaaS of Servionica company Alexey Cherevkov said.

In 2017 the stock "Total Dictation" broke the records of previous years both on geography, and by the number of participants. The dictation was written on 3000 platforms in 866 cities and settlements, in 71 countries of the world. In the conditions of peak loads the Servionica company since 2016 provides for ensuring stable work of the website of "A total dictation" to the project computing resources based on a cloud platform of MakeCloud. The instruments of balancing of load of cloud resources which are built in the platform allow to conduct monitoring of load of virtual machines, flexibly and quickly to manage resource allocation and their volume. Thanks to flexibility and scalability of cloud resources of Servionika and harmonious work to all IT command of support of the project the Total dictation-2017 passed without failures even during the periods of peak loads.

In 2018 the Russian writer Guzel Yakhina, the winner of the awards "Big Book" and "Yasnaya Polyana" will become the author of the text of a dictation. As tasks of "A total dictation" on April 14 Guzel Yakhina will read three texts – Morning, Day and Evening which will be included into her novel "My children".

Support of "Total dictation-2017"

The Servionica company, the Russian provider of a full range of services in the field of IT outsourcing, supported one of the largest Russian educational projects – "Total Dictation-2017". The cloud hosting provided by Servionika based on a cloud platform of MakeCloud and data center TrustInfo ensured functioning of the website of the project in the conditions of dynamically changing loads and the record number of online participating: about 23,000 people.

"The total dictation-2017" became record on a scope and geography: On April 8 it passed in 19 time zones on all six continents of Earth. From dictation of the famous writers, journalists, politicians and teachers the dictation was written on 3000 platforms in 866 cities and settlements which are in 71 countries of the world. Right after writing of a dictation it was possible to know the result of its automatic check. For those who preferred an online format on the official site of the project broadcasting was organized – it was looked by about 100,000 people.

Servionika supported the project in the status a partner hosting, having provided for the dictation website computing resources based on a cloud platform of MakeCloud. Besides, specialists of the company made to organizers a number of recommendations about development of the new architecture of the project expected considerable peak loads.

2016: Support of the Total dictation-2016

The company "Servionika" (I-Teco IT outsourcing Russia Cloud MakeCloud Group "), the Russian provider of services in the area, acted as the exclusive technology partner of the Total dictation-2016, one of the largest annual educational events of century a hosting from Servionica will ensure functioning of the website of the Total Dictation project that will allow tens of thousands of participants to join an action online.

Annual educational event on check of literacy "The total dictation" passed in 2016 on April 16. For internal participation more than 1500 platforms in Russia and abroad will be organized. And for those who will not be able to sit down at a school desk, having armed with the handle and paper, forward translation during which to listen to the text will be organized, directly on the website it will be possible to write a dictation and to receive results of the work after automatic check in real time. In the Total Dictation online format for the first time carried out in 2014, 6.5 thousand people far off participated in it. In 2015 the dictation was written on the Internet already by nearly 15 thousand people – about 15% of the total number of participants. Organizers of an action expect, as this year the share of Internet participating considerably will grow. Servionika will provide the Total dictation with a cloud hosting on the MakeCloud platform unrolled based on TrustInfo. The flexibility, scalability and the guaranteed availability of cloud resources will ensure stable functioning of the website even at sharp increase in amount of requests and volumes of the processed information.

"We are glad to support this remarkable cultural project which popularity grows not only in Russia every year, but also in the world. Development of modern technologies, including distribution of the Internet, allows each person to get access to necessary knowledge, and cloud computing provides what is especially valuable: convenience, saving of time, simplicity of interaction with information and other users. Cloud computing will integrate tens of thousands of people loving Russian, modern literature and technologies in day of an action, and we are proud of the deposit to this action", – Goremulta Andrey, the director of business development of Servionica (I-Teco Group) company noted.