University Consortium of Big Data Researchers

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2023: Cooperation Agreement with Astroy

A cooperation agreement was signed between Astra Group and the University Consortium. Astra announced this on November 13, 2023.

The university consortium of researchers big data , together with the domestic infrastructure software developer Astra Group, plan to create new ones, as well as adapt existing educational programs in the field for IT universities. Within the framework of cooperation, scientific and technical interaction is assumed using the potential of each of the participants in areas of mutual interest.

Astra Group considers this cooperation as an opportunity to continue to form in even more universities a community of active students of IT specialties interested in gaining knowledge in the field of domestic technologies and solutions. The partnership will also allow, on the basis of industry and reference universities, to open authorized training centers and Astra Laboratories.

The developer is serious about developing the direction of education. As of November 2023, the company's partners include more than 400 educational organizations. More than 13 thousand students are trained on the vendor's specialized web portal annually. Astra Group has created a network of more than 100 authorized training centers throughout the country, where about 22 thousand people have already been trained.

Over the past few years, we have been actively talking about the need to implement domestic software, including Linux. In the IT community, this system is already a recognized standard, for example, it runs the TSU Supercomputer. The main goal of cooperation with Astra Group is to import the domestic system into universities to solve scientific and educational problems. This will be an attempt to go "from below" - directly from users, first of all, they will be researchers of the University Big Data Consortium, which was created at TSU, - said Vyacheslav Goiko, General Director of the University Big Data Researchers Consortium Association, Director of the TSU Supercomputer Center.

The Astra Group's collaboration with the University Consortium of Large Researchers data is a great opportunity to share experience in developing and implementing open data projects and find new mutual growth points. We want to involve the academic and technology partners of the Consortium in our projects, as well as join the university community and participant projects in order to jointly solve the IT problems that are relevant for the whole country. It is important that the Consortium includes, in addition to universities, business representatives, companies from different. industries economies In addition, there are foreign universities among the members. Establishing contact and cooperation with them is significant for us as part of the development of the international direction, "said Konstantin Kuznetsov, head of the advanced projects department of the regional development department of Astra Group.

Astra Group provides a whole ecosystem of software solutions that allows you to cover all the main requests of partners in system and application software.