Fplus Sunrise (servers)

2024: Product Announcement

On October 17, 2024, it became known that the Russian manufacturer electronic engineers Fplus began production of servers equipped with domestic neuro-accelerators of the NTC company Module"." Such systems will be used for processing, neural networks signals and images. However, they are not designed to train artificial intelligence.

The Vedomosti newspaper told about the project. NTC "Module" develops and manufactures microprocessors and digital signal processing modules based on the original NeuroMatrix vector-matrix architecture. It is planned to install NM Quad and NM Card products in the Fplus Voskhod servers. The first of these solutions is a special computer based on four multi-core DSP processors K1879VM8Ya in the form factor of a dual-slot PCIe expansion card. 64 NeuroMatrixCore4 cores (FP32/64,1000 MHz) are involved, and the amount of memory DDR3L leaves 20 GB. In turn, the NM Card has a single-slot version: the configuration includes 16 NeuroMatrixCore4 cores and 5 GB of DDR3L memory. Both products are included in the register of domestic products of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. It is said about compatibility with the Russian operating system Astra Linux.

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Ruslan Permyakov, Deputy Director of the Competence Center of the NTI "Technologies of Trusted Interaction," believes that solutions of the NTC "Module" will be in demand in niche tasks, such as performing trained AI models and image processing. At the same time, the lack of the actual possibility of AI training can become a serious limitation for the widespread use of devices in commercial projects.

Independent expert Aleksei Boyko believes that the products of the NTC "Module" are not able to replace Nvidia accelerators based on GPUs (GPUs), but can become competitive in certain narrow segments of the Russian market.^[1]

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