Ministry of Industry and Trade allocated ₽7,6 billion to create a supercomputer with Russian architecture

The Ministry of Industry and Trade allocated ₽7,6 billion to create a supercomputer with the processor architecture of NeuroMatrix, developed by the STC Module JSC. The corresponding tender became known on November 9, 2021, its winner will be selected in about a month.

According to Kommersant, citing public procurement materials, the winner of the competition will have to produce the first batch of Russian SoC with a neural network accelerator containing at least eight neuroprocessor nuclei by November 30, 2025.

Ministry of Industry and Trade allocated ₽7,6 billion to create a supercomputer with Russian architecture

The newspaper turned to the Ministry of Industry and Trade for comment, where they explained that the development will be intended to solve a wide range of problems where the use of high-performance computing is necessary. In particular, it is planned to be used in tasks related to neural network processing of data when building defense systems, such as pattern recognition, smart vehicles (unmanned vehicles, drones, driver assistance systems), smart objects, predictive safety systems, medical automatic diagnostic systems, robotic systems, both industrial and other purposes (machine vision, positioning, control and other tasks).

The publication suggests that the tender is carried out as part of a through project with a total value of more than 12.87 billion rubles, in which Rosseti plans to order software and hardware complexes for robotic security systems. They will analyze traffic from video cameras at energy facilities, and the basis will be a processor with a wide scope of application "Neuro-B," for the development of which the STC "Module" in the summer requested 7.6 billion rubles from the budget.

Deputy Director of the ICST (developing the Elbrus processor) Konstantin Trushkin noted that for the development of IT in Russia, domestic artificial intelligence technologies, in particular, the architecture of neuroprocessor nuclei. This is the basis of technological independence, he stressed.^[1]

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