South Ural State University (SUSU)

History

2017: Creation of Additive Technology Laboratory

On February 21, 2017, South Ural State University announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with SMS group.

Together with the university, the German company will take part in the creation of the laboratory of additive technologies "Mechanics, laser processes and digital productive technologies." It will be headed by Marina Samodurova, professor at the National Engineering School of Saint-Etienne (ENISE, France), an employee of SUSU.

Event with the participation of SUSU, (2017)

Additive technologies are one of the promising areas for creating surface engineering with the required technological and physicomechanical properties due to the application of powder coatings, including laser surfacing methods. Marina Samodurova, professor at the National School of Engineering Saint-Etienne (ENISE, France), associate professor at SUSU

Laboratory employees will be researchers, graduate students and university graduates who have sufficient experience in this area. At the first stage, the location of the laboratory was selected (at the SUSU site in the laboratory building) and a list of the necessary equipment was compiled.

The laboratory that will be built at the university will have huge prospects. In Russia, the number of orders for research that we will conduct is increasing every day. Our task is not only to work together with our investors, but also to reach the All-Russian level. Alexander Shestakov, Rector of SUSU

Event with the participation of SUSU, (2017)

Two main tasks will be solved in the laboratory: the implementation of the necessary research work, as well as the practical application of developments on the latest equipment. SMS group has been operating in the Urals for 75 years. Chelyabinsk in general and South Ural State University in particular are very important for our development. We need qualified personnel. I am also very pleased with the fact of the appearance of the laboratory, because the knowledge that we will receive during the work of the laboratory will be distributed throughout the world. Pinot Teze, Executive Vice President of Technical Service Division of SMS group Holding

2011

Using a supercomputer

As of April 2011, the peak performance of two supercomputers installed at SUSU is 117.6 and 12.3 Tflops. They are ranked 3rd and 25th in the Top 50.

Dean of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Informatics, SUSU, Professor Leonid Sokolinsky told CNews that the distribution of tasks in priority areas of science on their supercomputer resources is as follows:

• 52.2% of tasks are in IT,
• 33.7% - for energy efficiency and energy saving,
• 9.4% - on space technologies,
• 3.5% - on medical technologies,
• 1.2% - on nuclear technologies.

If we take the distribution of tasks by industry, then natural science problems make up 65% of the total flow, engineering - 33%, socio-economic - 2%.

The university uses supercomputers both for its own needs and for settlements on projects of third-party customers. By order of the state corporation Defense industry"," for example, new designs of body armor were being worked out at the university supercomputer, which made it possible to significantly reduce the number of field experiments.

Another task that Oboronprom solved on the SUSU supercomputer was to simulate the mechanics of damage that occur in the human body with local impacts. Previously, for such experiments, either technical plasticine was used, with the help of which it is quite difficult to assess the degree of injury to the real human body, or chest models, which are quite expensive.

The use of a supercomputer made it possible for Oboronprom to significantly reduce the cost of finalizing structures, they say in SUSU. One kilogram of ballistic fabric made of synthetic highly modular material used in body armor costs about $200, and one shot from any weapon at the Russian Center for Testing Personal Protective Equipment at the Research Institute of Steel with speed measurement and registration on technical plasticine - 500 rubles.

By order of one of the knitted factories at the supercomputer in SUSU, modeling of deformation changes in knitted fabrics on the human figure was also carried out. The purpose of this work was to obtain characteristics for the creation of new knitted fabrics that meet the world level in quality. The university's computing power was also used by an investment company to calculate the optimization of the securities portfolio.

Establishment of a joint venture "HPC Impulse" with RSK SKIF

In March 2011, it became known that the Chelyabinsk South Ural State University (SUSU) and the supplier of supercomputers RSK SKIF created a joint venture "HPC Impulse" (from the English HPC Impulse) to produce components for high-performance computing systems. The university owns 34% of the authorized capital of the joint venture, and RSK SKIF - 66%^[1]. Valentin Dorokhov, graduate of the magistracy of the Department of System Programming of SUSU, was appointed Director of the joint venture.

Federal law 217-FZ allows universities to create small innovative enterprises, the university explains. In addition to HPC Impulse with the participation of SUSU, twenty more enterprises have been created to date. As Lyudmila Poggivotova, director of the innovation department of SUSU, told CNews, most of them were established with various individuals, and the university's share in the authorized capital of these enterprises is the same as in the case of RSK SKIF. The projects that these enterprises are engaged in lie in different areas - from IT and medical equipment to the production of semi-finished products.

Executive Director of RSK SKIF Alexei Shmelev told CNews that at the initial stage of their joint venture it is planned to establish the production of water cooling radiators for the SKIF-Aurora supercomputer platform. It was developed by an alliance, which includes the Italian company Eurotech, RSK SKIF, IPS RAS, with the support of Intel. In Europe, Eurotech offers this platform under the Aurora brand. As Eurotech reported in 2009, Aurora, SKIF row 4 and SKIF-Aurora are different brands of the same product in different countries.

The production of radiators in Russia, according to preliminary estimates of RSK SKIF, should cost 2-3 times cheaper than the purchase of similar components abroad. According to Shmelev, the production of radiators for SKIF-Aurora will be carried out in the own technopark of SUSU in Chelyabinsk. At the same time, the developer of radiators is RSK SKIF, says Shmelev. The company will purchase these radiators from the joint venture both for themselves and plans to supply them to Eurotech. "Our foreign partners do not like the way radiators are manufactured in Europe, and they expressed their readiness to purchase this component from us," says Shmelev.

In the future, the joint venture also plans to launch the production and soldering of printed circuit boards for supercomputers. However, according to Shmelev, this is a very distant prospect. In addition to iron production, HPC Impulse will offer commercial services for modeling complex technological processes on a supercomputer.

To date, SUSU has installed three high-performance systems, the most powerful of which is SKIF-Aurora SUSU with a capacity of 24 Tflops. Now it is being modernized, after which the capacity of this system will be 104 Tflops.

Registered at the end of 2008, RSK SKIF has so far made only four deliveries of its platform, two of which are to SUSU. When asked by CNews why SUSU did not form a joint venture with the more experienced T-Platforms company for the production of components and the provision of supercomputer modeling services, Professor Leonid Sokolinsky, dean of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Computer Science, replied that the university did not want to "focus on one monopoly."

Assets of SUSU

As of March 2011, the university was among the top ten among 96 univer­sitetov of Russia in the ranking of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and is included in the alpha league of Russian universities. This is the highest part of the rating among all univer­sitetov in the country. SUSU is the center of educational, scientific, cultural and sports life of Chelyabinsk and the region.

At that time, more than 57 thousand students studied at the university, more than 5 thousand employees work. Among the faculty are more than 350 professors and 1,500 associate professors. The univer­sitete employed 5 academicians and 9 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2 academicians and 4 corresponding members of other state academies, more than 150 academicians of various public and foreign academies. 162 university teachers had honorary state titles.

The univer­siteta includes 37 faculties, including faculties of military training, pre-university training, two special faculties for retraining and advanced training of specialists with higher education, the Institute of Additional Education and the Institute of Open and Distance Education. Univer­sitet had 14 branches in Russian cities.

1943-1997: Retrospective

It was founded in 1943 as the Chelyabinsk Mechanical Engineering Institute.

On April 26, 1949, Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 1671 was issued on the organization in 1951 of the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute (ChPI) on the basis of the ChMMI by combining it with the Chelyabinsk Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture (CHIMESH). However, in 1950 an order was issued that CHIMESH retains the status of an independent university, and the Chelyabinsk Mechanical Engineering Institute was reorganized into the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute. As a result, in 1951, the ChMMI was pre­obra­zovan to the ChPI. New faculties were added to two existing faculties: energy, metallurgical, civil engineering, mechanical and instrument-making.

In 1958, the evening department was reorganized into an independent evening department.

In 1990, it was transformed into the Chelyabinsk State Technical univer­sitet.

Since 1997 - South Ural State univer­sitet.

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