Roscosmos rocket engine developers need computing resources and Russian software. Project price - 400 million rubles
| Customers: Center Keldysh SSC FSUE Moscow; Mechanical and Instrument Engineering Contractors: Center Keldysh SSC FSUE, Top Systems Product: T-FLEX PLM+Second product: T-FLEX DOCS Third product: Unified database for verification and validation of computer simulation software (EBD) Project date: 2024/01
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The leading enterprise in the field of rocket engine building and space power engineering specialists SSC "Center Keldysh" (part of the state corporation Roskosmos"") has prepared an application for a grant RFRIT to participate in the selection in 2023. This was announced on April 5, 2023 by the leadership of the Keldysh Center at a meeting with the press on the territory of its enterprise. The total cost of the project, which needs financial support, is estimated at about 400 million. rubles The grant can cover up to 80% of the total cost.
Work within the framework of the project under which the Keldysh Center wants to receive a grant is designed for 2024-2026. Among them, as follows from the presentation of the general director of the Keldysh Center Vladimir Koshlakov, the development of an SPDM system (Simulation process and data management) based on Russian T-Flex software (developer - "Top Systems"), acquisition of licenses for T-Flex PLM, T-Flex Docs products and licenses for "Unified Database for Verification and Validation of Computer Modeling Software" (EBD). The developer of the latter is RFNC-VNIIEF ( part of the state corporation Rosatom).
And a very important element of the project is work in the field of computing cluster. More on this will be told separately below.
Grant triad
The project under which the grant application was prepared is a continuation of previously carried out work, for which grant support from RFRIT was also involved. So, for 2021-2022. funds were received in the amount of about 84 million rubles for the purchase of licenses and refinement for the needs of the Keldysh Center of the Logos software product, the developer of which is RFNC-VNIIEF. This product can import substitution of such foreign modeling and engineering analysis programs as Ansys CFX/Fluent, Ansys Mechanical, MSC Nastran, Dassault Systems FlowSimulation, Matlab.
At the same time, the company began to interact with RFNC-VNIIEF to adapt Logos even earlier, before receiving a grant. Now the Keldysh Center uses Logos modules on aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, heat exchange, strength analysis, and preparation of calculated data, the company said.
The second grant through RFRIT, with a volume of 318.6 million rubles, the Keldysh Center received recently - for the project for 2023-2025. on the introduction and revision of mathematical modeling tools at rocket engine enterprises. It provides not only additional refinement of the Logos functionality, but also the purchase of licenses and refinement of other software products - the environment for dynamic modeling of technical systems SimInTech and programs for automation and optimization of computing processes. pSeven For details on the two projects that are already supported by grants, see. here
The Keldysh Center expects to implement in a single environment the joint integration of Logos, SimInTech and pSeven products and integrate the results of work on the creation of complex software products with design three-dimensional models for creating digital product twins in general, Vladimir Koshlakov explained.
At the same time, a project is currently underway, which is headed by TsNIImash, the head institute of Roscosmos, to implement a PLM system at enterprises of the industry based on the domestic T-FLEX solution. The Keldysh Center would like to integrate in the framework of its work in the future with the results of the work of TsNIImash, says Vladimir Koshlakov. This, among other things, would allow us to develop in the field of creating digital twins and thereby reduce the cost of expensive field tests.
Artyom Rasskazov, Deputy Director of the Digital Development Department of Roscosmos, answering a TAdviser question, explained that the meaning of the project, for which an application for a new RFRIT grant has been prepared, is that the industry needs to ensure the connection of various local solutions with each other. What TsNIImash does is, in fact, work for design bureaus. But design bureaus and scientific centers are different organizations, and they must be connected with each other. The Keldysh Center took it upon itself to close the existing gap.
Vadim Mironov, Deputy General Director for Means of Withdrawing the Keldysh Center, noted at the meeting that due to the projects already implemented, the enterprise also carried out a lot of organizational and technical work: they strengthened from the point of view of computing resources, significantly re-structured their thematic divisions, creating a mathematical modeling laboratory. It is staffed mainly by graduates of MIPT and MSTU named after N.E. Bauman.
 | Due to the increasing sanctions pressure, we are put in such conditions that we will not be able to solve problems in standard ways, therefore, only thanks to such developments and such competencies can resources and time be gained in order to do everything more efficiently and faster, said at a meeting at the Keldysh Center on April 5, RFRIT General Director Alexander Pavlov. - Our task here is to configure the grant tool in such a way as to make it as flexible as possible, so that, solving large government tasks, it is possible within the project to make some adjustments, do something faster, and abandon something, achieving goals in some other way. And here we are always in touch and always in close contact. |  |
Center for collective use for rocket engine building
As part of the further development related to the projects described above, the Keldysh Center sets itself the following tasks:
- expanding the functionality of domestic mathematical modeling software;
- expansion of composition and functionality of software integration links;
- expansion of databases of properties of substances and materials;
- development of methodological recommendations on the formation of computer models of rocket engine products.
Another important area of development and the task in this list is the creation of a competence center and a collective use center for rocket engine companies.
| | We see ourselves as a center of competence in the field of rocket engine building for the development and implementation of approaches at industry enterprises, - said the general director of the Keldysh Center. | |
And one of the key areas, which, says Vladimir Koshlakov, was supported by the leadership of Roscosmos, is the creation of a new methodological base for ensuring and confirming the reliability of the products of the rocket and space industry. This is important and necessary, because now a lot of money is spent on confirming reliability. With a new methodological base, you could spend less.
Computational cluster for complex calculations
To implement the ambitious tasks outlined by the Keldysh Center, certain machine capabilities are required - computing power. The company has already made some efforts in this direction. But the increase in the amount of calculation work that the Keldysh Center has, including from its many partners, sets the priority task of increasing computing resources.
Actually, this was largely motivated by the proposal to organize a project for 2024-2026, including the development of a computing cluster, increasing computing capabilities.
To a certain extent, this ideology correlates with the strategy of the priority technological direction "High-performance computing technologies, including supercomputer technologies," which in our country is led by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Deputy Director - Deputy Scientific Director of RFNC-VNIIEF and the legend of computer modeling Rashit Shagaliev. This direction provides for the creation of industry clusters.
In Russia, interdepartmental computing centers have been operating for quite some time, where enterprises can apply for renting computing resources. For example, there is at the Kurchatov Institute, at the state corporations Rosatom, Rostec. Their computing resources are used for their own needs, and are provided to enterprises in various industries to solve their problems.
At the same time, some, especially powerful of the existing systems, were prudently never submitted to public ratings of supercomputers - neither in the top 50 of Russia, nor in the top 500 of the world - and their current characteristics were not publicly disclosed.
In GKNPC named after M.V. Khrunichev, one of the enterprises of Roscosmos, in April, during a trip of journalists to the enterprise, they told TAdviser that for some part of the tasks they, in particular, remotely use the computing power of the Rosatom cluster. At the same time, the GKNPC named after M.V. Khrunichev want to have their own cluster.
Vadim Mironov noted that, of course, it is possible to rent third-party computing power, there is such a practice. But this is a question of convenience, and in some cases a question of the specifics of tasks - not all tasks can be solved remotely due to closure.
Brains of scientists vs. supercomputer
Despite the fact that the need for an industry computing cluster in Roscosmos would seem to be ripe for more than one day, it does not yet have such a system, unlike some other state corporations.
Artyom Rasskazov, answering a TAdviser question, explained the reasons for his absence as follows. The fact is that the creation of large computing power is a difficult and expensive task, and from this point of view, a certain order has arisen in the state in the creation of such systems: first of all, the most important ones in terms of defense where necessary.
In Russia, there is a priority technological direction for supercomputers, and within it at one time an approach of a certain three-level system was developed: the level of national centers, the level of industry centers and the level of computing centers of enterprises. These are different in the set of software and in the computing power of the system. Therefore, in this case, speech is rather in economic efficiency and priority, says Artyom Rasskazov.
The key industries where supercomputers are required in the world are nuclear topics, climate calculations, oil calculations, aerodynamic and gas-dynamic in the space industry. This also includes calculations in the field of graphics - for example, for cartoons, and recently - training neural networks, added the deputy director of the digital development department of Roscosmos.
I must say that Americans have been trumpeting for years that high-performance computing systems are a critical factor in competitiveness, both locally and internationally, in science and industry and at the state level, allocate large funds for the development of such systems. The current supercomputer race between some countries resembles the Cold War space race.
In the current ranking of the top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world[1], you can see three computing systems installed at the NASA research center. The most powerful of them has a real performance of 9 Pflops and ranks 63rd in the top 500.
Roscosmos does not have such systems, but without them there are traditionally unique developments, including those that are ahead of the existing world, and products that up to the last were bought, including by Americans. For example, a rocket engine RD-180.
"Since the Soviet Union, we have taken, rather, by skill, not number," says Artyom Rasskazov. Colleagues agree with him.
| | We compensate for the lack of computing power with knowledge of physics, "says Igor Laptev, head of the laboratory of mathematical modeling at the Keldysh Center. | |
This shows the level of those people who are involved in the development: the higher the level, the less computing power is needed in order to solve the same problem, summarized at the meeting.
See also
Industrial Competence Centers (ICC)
Grants for development and implementation of IT solutions in Russia
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