Supercomputer Modeling Center
Since 2001
Russia
Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
Solnechnogorsk
141500, st. Krasnaya, 161
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Owners
OJSC Solnechnogorsk Instrument Plant was created in accordance with the federal law of December 21, 2001 No. 178-FZ "On the privatization of state and municipal property" and on the basis of the order of the Government of the Russian Federation of August 20, 2002 No. 1155-r by transforming the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Solnechnogorsk Instrument Plant.
As a FSUE, the main activity of the plant was the production, warranty and post-warranty service of special and civilian electronic equipment products. The company had a full technological cycle of production of satellite communication stations, radio receiving and radio transmitting devices of VHF and microwave bands, as well as electronic equipment.
Subsequently, after privatization, the company ceased to produce its own products, and its main activity was the creation, maintenance and operation of data centers.
In 2019, the company changed its name to "Supercomputer Modeling Center" (CSM). According to the Kontur. Focus database, as of 2020, it is 100% owned by Rostec.
Performance indicators
2022: Revenue growth of 111 %
In 2022, the revenue of the Center for Supercomputer Modeling (CSM) of Rostec increased by 111%, to 584.4 million rubles, follows from the published accounting of the company[1]. For the second year in a row, the business turned out to be profitable: net profit amounted to about 8 million rubles.
The previously stated goal of the center is to provide industrial enterprises, primarily defense industry enterprises, with high-performance computing resources that allow numerical modeling and engineering calculations.
In early March 2023, Rostec told TAdviser that the users of the CSM are enterprises from aviation, engineering and other industries.
The systematic expansion of the client base, as well as the diversification of the services provided in accordance with the CSM development plan, ensured revenue growth last year, the company says.
An analysis of CSM purchases shows that in 2022 he actively purchased Ansys software for engineering analysis and numerical modeling - the company announced tenders with initial prices totaling about 148 million rubles. At the same time, Ansys, against the background of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, previously suspended all operations on the sale of its software, as well as consulting and marketing activities in Russia.
 | Which software to use depends on the wishes of your customers. Some need Ansys, others successfully use domestic software, for example, LOGOS and FlowVision. We can state that there are more and more requests for Russian software now, - said TAdviser in Rostec. |  |
Recall that the design peak performance of the CSM computer was 1.5 Pflops, however, at the time of its launch in 2018, Roselectronics (also part of Rostec) told TAdviser that the indicator of the commissioned computing complex exceeds the design one, without specifying, however, to what extent.
In any case, even with the design peak performance, this system in 2022 would be one of the most powerful in Russia, if you look at the rating data of the top 50 most powerful supercomputers in Russia and the CIS[2].
The CSM supercomputer does not participate in public ratings, and Rostec does not apply to the company's activities. And over the past three years, the CSM has not published annual reports, which previously disclosed the details of its work, indicators of the workload of computing power and plans for the future.
History
2021: Going to profit
In 2021, the Center for Supercomputer Modeling (CSM), which is part of Rostec, ceased to be unprofitable: according to the company's accounting data, its net profit amounted to about 5.7 million rubles against a loss of 30 million rubles a year earlier[3]
The revenue of the CSM in 2021 grew slightly - to 277 million rubles from 258 million rubles.
| | In 2021, CSM JSC continued to develop in accordance with the plans approved by Rostec, which made it possible to bring the company to profit. All indicators achieved by the company correspond to the planned values and reflect the situation on the market in 2021. The company's revenue for the main activity has grown. In 2022, the CSM plans to continue development, increase revenue and make a profit from sales, - said TAdviser in Rostec. | |
2020: CSM boosted revenue but ended the year again with a loss
In 2020, the Center for Supercomputer Modeling (CSM), which is part of Rostec, increased revenue by 74%, to almost 258 million rubles. This follows from the company's balance sheet. The year of the CSM again ended with a net loss - about 51.2 million rubles. However, this figure decreased 3.4 times compared to 2019, when the net loss exceeded sales revenue.
The stated goal of the center is to provide industrial enterprises, primarily defense industry enterprises, with high-performance computing resources that allow performing numerical modeling and engineering calculations. The design peak performance of the center computer was 1.5 Pflops, however, at the time of its launch in 2018, Roselectronics (also part of Rostec) told TAdviser that the indicator of the commissioned computing complex exceeds the design one, without specifying then, however, to what extent.
Even with a design indicator of 1.5 Pflops, this supercomputer complex in mid-2021 would be one of the most powerful in Russia - officially it could be the fourth most productive after the systems Christofari (Sberbank), Lomonosov-2 ( Moscow State University ) and MTS GROM (MTS), based on data in the world ranking of the top 500 supercomputers.
| | The systematic development of the company is proceeding in accordance with the approved internal documents of the corporation. As can be seen from the reporting, in 2020 the company increased revenue and reduced losses, maintaining positive dynamics, - said TAdviser in the holding "Roselektronika," commenting on how things are going with the enterprise. | |
The company, however, did not comment on what the losses of the CSM in 2020 are related to and how busy its computing power was. The publicly available annual report of the CMS for 2018 stated that the planned load for 2019, based on the design capacity indicator of 1.5 Pflops, was 40%. And the planned load rate for 2020 there was also indicated at 60%, for 2021 - by 80%.
Unlike previous years, the CSM has not published its annual report for 2020 on the Internet, and its financial statements for the same period are not available on official disclosure resources. There is no CSM in the state information resource of accounting (financial reporting) of the Federal Tax Service. Apparently, this is due to a government decree adopted in 2020, allowing defense industry organizations not to include data subject to disclosure in accordance with IFRS.
There is no information about the CSM in the public materials of Rostec, as well as in its annual report for 2020. At the same time, earlier Rostec talked about its much smaller supercomputer Fisher, installed at the Joint Institute of High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences (OIVT RAS). It is used by physicists in creating digital models of substances and predicting the behavior of materials in extreme states. The peak capacity of this system after the upgrade in 2021 was 100 Tflops. With this performance, it would not have made it to the top 50 most powerful CIS supercomputers.
2019: CSM underutilized to end year with loss
In 2019, the Rostec Supercomputer Modeling Center (CSM) received its first major revenue. According to the company's financial statements, published in June 2020, its turnover amounted to about 148 million rubles against 26 million rubles earned in 2018, in the year of launch.
The previously stated goal of the center is to provide industrial enterprises, primarily enterprises of the military-industrial complex, with high-performance computing resources that allow numerical modeling and engineering calculations. The design peak performance of the center calculator was 1.5 Pflops. However, at the time of its launch at Roselectronics (also part of Rostec), TAdviser reported that the indicator of the commissioned computing complex exceeds the design one, without specifying, however, to what extent. Even with an indicator of 1.5 Pflops, this object would be one of the most powerful in Russia.
Read more about the centre, its services and history of creation here.
The CSM ended the year with a net loss exceeding sales revenue - in the amount of about 173 million rubles, follows from the financial statements. In the conclusion based on the results of the audit of the financial statements conducted by Intercom-Audit and published on the CSM disclosure page, it is indicated that the loss is due to the low workload of production facilities - "only 15%."
The company's 2018 annual report said that the planned load for 2019, based on a design capacity of 1.5 Pflops, was 40%. The planned load rate for 2020 is also indicated there at 60%, and for 2021 - by 80%.
| | Currently, the company is developing measures aimed at increasing sales volumes in 2020 and increasing profits, the audit report says. - In the budget of the organization for 2020-2022, it is planned to make a profit through the conclusion of new contracts with buyers and the workload of computing power by 80%. | |
According to the database of legal entities Kontur.Fokus, "in 2019 the CSM did not conclude government contracts as a supplier. Since the official launch of the center in 2018, it has one state contract, with the State Research Institute of Aviation Systems. He purchased from the CSM services for renting computing resources in the amount of about 251 million rubles.
| | In 2019, the company received proceeds from the sale of services to scientific and industrial commercial organizations, - said TAdviser in Roselectronics. - The enterprise provides customers with computing power that can be used for complex mathematical operations and calculations, modeling and solving many other problems. | |
The cost of sales of CSM in 2019 amounted to 299 million rubles, management costs - about 97 million rubles. A number of employees from the management staff in 2019 were paid bonuses. So the development director Sergei Stoyanov was given a bonus of 974 thousand rubles, and six more employees in 2019 received bonuses totaling 1.3 million rubles for 2018, follows from the audit report.
The company was renamed the "Center for Supercomputer Modeling" in October 2019, follows from the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Previously, it was called the Solnechnogorsk Instrument Plant. The company's website is down as of early July.
2018: The centre's launch into operation
In 2018, the Solnechnogorsk Instrument Plant (SPZ), which is part of Rostec, commissioned a high-performance computing and modeling center. Read more here.
2012: Operator's appointment of the center for computer modeling of industrial products
Main article: Rostec Computer Modeling Center
In accordance with the federal target program "Development of the military-industrial complex for 2007-2010 and for the period up to 2015," one of the companies within Rostec - the Solnechnogorsk Instrument Plant (SPZ) - is implementing a project to modernize its enterprise in order to create a computer modeling center for industrial products on its basis .
The main goal of this is to provide industrial enterprises, primarily enterprises of the military-industrial complex (MIC), with high-performance computing resources. The Center plans to provide 24-hour remote access to computing resources, as well as solving customer-specific problems in whole or in part. The latter includes, among other things, the development, verification of models and calculation methodologies, as well as the adaptation and refinement of parallel software.
The design peak capacity of the computing complex of the center according to the plans at that time was supposed to be 1.5 Pflops. In the ranking of the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world as of June 2017, only two comparable power systems were announced from Russia - their peak performance is 1.7 Pflops and 2.9 Pflops. Both of them are installed at Moscow State University.
It follows from the SDR documents that the plant itself must act as the commercial operator of the center. Physically, the main equipment is located on the site in Fryazino, rented from the Platan Research Institute, which is part of Roselectronics. A multi-year lease agreement was signed in 2013. The total area of the leased site is more than 2.6 thousand square meters. m.
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