Sitronics upgraded IT infrastructure of the Chernobyl NPP

The Sitronics company, solution provider in the field of telecommunications, information technologies and microelectronics in Russia and the CIS countries, announced that the Sitronics Information Technologies subsidiary company completed the works on upgrade of IT infrastructure within the project on removal from operation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant implemented by the German company Energiewerke Nord GmbH (EWN) together with Ernst&Young.

Within the project on the State specialized enterprise the Chernobyl NPP (CNPP) was designed and implemented by the joint working group the failsafe platform for the information system necessary for removal of the station from operation. A system will register data of an engineering and radiation status of buildings, constructions and the equipment, to control works on treatment of radioactive waste, to provide resource management and materials on the Chernobyl NPP.

"As on an output of the station from operation more than 50 years will be required, it is necessary to collect and store the large volume of information at all stages of this large-scale project. World experience demonstrates that a best tool for the solution of such tasks is the electronic database, – the project manager from the CNPP, the deputy CEO of GSP Chernobyl NPP Valery Seyda noted. – The completeness of data on all stages of lifecycle of power units of the CNPP will allow to consider all technology, economic and social aspects of removal of the station from operation".

"Our company already has experience of implementation of similar projects in Germany, Lithuania and Bulgaria. On the Chernobyl nuclear power plant we attracted to works "Sitronics Information Technologies", one of the most qualified players of the market of system integration in Russia and Ukraine", - Carsten Frank, the project manager from Energiewerke Nord GmbH said.

"The failsafe platform meeting the requirements of specialists of European Commission and Chernobyl nuclear power plant for reliability and fault tolerance is the cornerstone of the upgraded IT infrastructure. The implemented solution will increase reliability of information support of works on an output of the CNPP from operation. Important advantage of a system is high computing power that allows to process large volumes of information, provides a continued access to data, their background backup and operational recovery", – Vladimir Yasinsky, the president of Sitronics Information Technologies company reported.

The implemented solution is constructed based on a blade architecture. A basis of a computing subsystem are ProLiant BL460G6 HP servers united in a data network and the storage area network the corresponding duplicated switching modules of the Blade System c3000 HP chassis. According to Sitronics IT, the created hardware and software system has high degree of fault tolerance to not multiple hardware failures and good scalability. After input in trial operation the contract for service maintenance of IT infrastructure for a period of 5 years was signed with Sitronics IT.