131 people from 56 organizations from 20 cities take part in the Forum. Of these: 2 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 16 doctors of science, 40 candidates of science. There are 7 press representatives. Participants submitted 94 reports.
Main organizers of NSCF-2024
• ANO “National Supercomputer Forum”;
• Institute of Software Systems named after A.K. Ailamazyan RAS;
• National Supercomputer Technology Platform (NSTP);
• Eurasian Supercomputer Technology Platform (ESTP)
Co-organizers of the Forum
• Presidential Academy RANEPA
• Institute for Problems of Information Transmission named after. A.A. Kharkevich RAS;
• Institute of Information Technologies, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Sponsors and partners of NSKF-2024
• Gold sponsors: Institute of Software Systems named after. A.K. Ailamazyan RAS, IMMERS company.
• Sponsors: PJSC Sberbank, Basalt SPO.
• Partner: Department of Nanotechnologies and Information Technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(ONIT RAS).
• Sponsors of information support: “Science and Life” magazine, IST2GO, ISTONLINE, “EcoGrad+” magazine, PaVT’2025, Laboratory of Information Technologies named after M.G. Meshcheryakov Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Joint Fund of Electronic Resources “Science and Education”, Publishing House “Connect”.
Features of NSCF-2024
• For the first time, Sberbank PJSC became our sponsor. We express our deep gratitude to him!
• The forum will again be held in a hybrid format: the plenary session will be held in person. Recordings of the broadcasts will be available for participants who have paid the registration fee on our YouTube channel, and all sectional sessions will be held on-line through the Kontur-Talk system;
• Due to very modest sponsorship participation, elections for NSCF Prize laureates are not held, an on-line press conference is held for the press on the second day of the Forum, and the cultural program will not take place;
• For the first time, during a face-to-face meeting at the Forum, the distribution of serious relevant information was organized
textbook on supercomputer technologies. We are talking about the book “High Performance Computing with HIP”, authors: Yifan Song, Trinayan Baruah, David Kaeli; translation from English by O. Kupriyanchuk; scientific editor of the translation T.T. Paltashev, Moscow, MAKS-Press, 2024, 304 p.
This opportunity was realized due to the support of the Forum’s information partner, ITMO University, and the high-quality work of the MAKS-Press publishing house, which published this textbook.
As before, within the framework of the NSKF, on November 25, 2024, a satellite conference “Mathematics in the era of supercomputers” is being held with twelve reports;
• Second satellite conference of the Forum: 5th international scientific and practical conference “Cloud and distributed computing systems” ORVS-2024. Organizers of this conference:
• Center for Distributed Computing of the Institute for Information Transmission Problems
them. A.A. Kharkevicha RAS, g. Moscow, Russia;
• Department of Computer Science, Southwestern State University, Kursk,
Russia;
• Daqing Normal University, Daqing, China;
• Institute of Information Technologies, Baku, Azerbaijan;
• Institute of Software Systems named after. A.K. Ailamazyan RAS, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia.
• This year the Forum is changing radically – it will gradually use year-round operation more and more. That is, now we have the November session, within the framework of which there is a conference, exhibition, etc. But then, throughout the year, the life of the Forum will not come to a standstill. It will work: from time to time, reports will be made remotely, discussions will be held, decisions important for the industry will be made, partners will exchange important news for the industry.
Supercomputer industry in the world and Russia in 2024
Over the past year, one Russian installation has left the Top500 list – the MTS GROM supercomputer from MTS. Not a single new domestic or imported installation purchased and installed in Russia appeared in the Top500 list for the past year. As a result, only 6 systems installed in Russia remained on the list:
• Three systems belong to the Yandex company: Chervonenkis (Chervonenkis) (No. 60 in the Top500 rating, at 93.4
weaker than Top1 – 1.07% of the power of Top1), Galushkin (No. 86 in the Top500 rating, 133 times weaker than Top1 – 0.75% of the power of Top1), Lyapunov (No. 99 in the Top500 rating, 137 times weaker than Top1 — 0.73% of the power Top1);
• Two supercomputers are installed at Sberbank PJSC: Christofari Neo (No. 104 in the Top500 rating, 184 times weaker than Top1 – 0.54% of the power of Top1), Christofari (No. 172 in the Top500 rating, 312 times weaker than Top1 – 0.32% of the power of Top1) ;
• Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov has the only public supercomputer manufactured by a Russian company: Lomonosov 2 (Lomonosov-2, No. 453 in the Top500 rating, 555 times weaker than Top1 – 0.18% of the power of Top1, manufactured by T-Platforms). Lomonosov-2 has been included in the Top500 for 10½ years – twenty-one editions in the ranking. This “longevity” is unique for such systems.
It should be noted that there were many reports in the press that at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov created a powerful computing system “MGU-270”. A corresponding report was also made within the Forum. Judging by the data that can be found in the public domain, this system is very powerful and it would undoubtedly be included in the Top500 rating if the corresponding application and protocols for measuring Linpack performance were submitted there. But the creators and operators of this system, for some reasons, did not submit such an application. Thus, the MGU-270 supercomputer undoubtedly exists and, based on its parameters, it could be included in the Top500 rating. But since it was not included there, it cannot be classified as a “public supercomputer system” – it is not completely public. This situation is not uncommon; in all developed supercomputer countries there are quite a lot of non-public supercomputers that are not mentioned in the Top500 rating.
In general, there have been significant changes in the Top500 ranking – first of all, the most powerful supercomputer has changed. In the new edition of the rating, it was the El Capitan supercomputer, which showed performance on the Linpack test of 1,742 petaflops (1.742 exaflops). The system is based on the most modern AMD 4th Gen EPYC 24C 1.8GHz processors and AMD Instinct MI300A accelerators, using interconnect and engineering infrastructure (Slingshot-11, HPE Cray EX) from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Thus, the system is based on interconnect, which is not available as a separate commercial product. This interconnect is today, perhaps, a record for its characteristics in the world and takes its origin from the Cray company, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise several years ago.
It can be stated that the global industry has consolidated and is expanding the transition of supercomputer technologies from the petaflop era to the exaflop era. As was already discussed a year ago at the Forum, such a transition involves radical changes at all levels, starting with hardware and ending with all layers of software. The tools, ideas and solutions of the petaflop and exascale eras are very different. And in order to be competitive and meet the current level of development of supercomputer technologies, Russia needs to strengthen its research and development in the field of exascale.
Source: www.nkj.ru
