MGU-270 (supercomputer)

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2025: Disclosure supercomputer name - "MGU-270 "

At the end of April 2025, Lomonosov Moscow State University disclosed the name of the supercomputer, which was commissioned in 2023. His name is "MSU-270." According to the rector of the university Viktor Sadovnichy, this is the most powerful supercomputer in Russia.

Supercomputer "MGU-270" has a peak performance of 400 petaflops, which allows you to perform operations related to artificial intelligence at maximum speed without the need to store intermediate data. Sadovnichy noted that among universities in the world, only two foreign educational institutions have comparable opportunities.

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The MGU-270 project was created to solve technological problems in the field of artificial intelligence. The supercomputer became the centerpiece of the university's scientific infrastructure, opening access to high-performance computing for research groups.

The MGU-270 computing network is built with a bandwidth of 200 Gbps. This architecture provides high reliability, minimal data latency and system stability under heavy loads. A separate network for complex management and integration with external systems has a throughput of 100 Gbps and is equipped with backup components to improve fault tolerance.

Russian components and technologies were widely used in the development and construction of the supercomputer. This made it possible to ensure not only high productivity, but also to reduce dependence on imported equipment. Power supply, cooling and internal communication systems of the complex are also developed on the basis of domestic solutions.

Initially, "MGU-270" was used to test machine learning algorithms and neural network models. In the future, its capacities were opened to the scientific groups of the university, actively working on projects in the field of physics, bioinformatics, chemistry and modeling of complex processes.^[1]

2023: Launch of a new 400 petaflops supercomputer

At the end of August 2023, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov announced the launch of a new supercomputer. Its power will be used, among other things, in the search for new methods of protecting systems based on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The performance of the computer is 400 petaflops.

The new supercomputer will be used in research related to physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, geology, medicine, in the development of new tools based on artificial intelligence (AI), for example, algorithms for analyzing big data and other areas of science, as well as the search for new methods for protecting systems based on AI technologies.

MSU announced the launch of a new supercomputer

As stated in MSU, the new solution is based on the practices and existing developments in the field of high-performance computing of the world's leading manufacturers. The architectural basis of the solution was taken by the implemented supercomputers of the world's leading universities. The supercomputation complex includes new power supply, cooling and communication systems. According to the rector of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov Viktor Sadovnichy, the new supercomputer can enter the top three world leaders among systems of this class.

Earlier, the Moscow State University launched the Chebyshov supercomputer (60 teraflops/s), created with the participation of the SKIF-GRID program of the Union State. Then Lomonosov was installed at the university, which, after several stages of modernization, reached a peak productivity of 1.7 petaflops. The Lomonosov-2 supercomputer was launched at the university in 2012, its peak performance is estimated at 5.5 petaflops. By August 2023, it is used by more than 3 thousand users from 20 departments of Moscow State University, as well as representatives of more than 50 institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and more than 40 universities in Russia.^[2]

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