MINSK, 1 February (BelTA) – A development prototype of the office supercomputer SKIF-GEO will be presented during the international forum of telecommunication, information, and banking technologies TIBO 2017 in Minsk, BelTA learned from Sergei Kruglikov, Deputy Director General of the United Informatics Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, on 1 February.
There are plans to research and develop two prototypes — for a data processing center and for office environment — from the family of high-performance computers SKIF-GEO as part of the Union State program SKIF-NEDRA. SKIF-GEO computers are designed to handle resource-intensive geophysical and geomechanical computing tasks.
The prototypes are in development now, this is why no prices have been specified. The SKIF-GEO office system will be portable. It will be slightly larger than a regular office computer. It will employ original Belarusian heat dissipation technologies, this is why it will be silent. A development prototype will be put on display during TIBO 2017. All the visitors will be able to see how supercomputing works. The supercomputer will be commissioned next year.
The SKIF-GEO supercomputer is supposed to promptly handle any supercomputing tasks in the field. “In the past certain tasks needed 46-47 hours to accomplish. With supercomputers we can do the same within 7-8 minutes,” explained Sergei Kruglikov.
The data processing center will be located in the United Informatics Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. It will facilitate geological exploration by offering cloud-computing and grid-computing technologies.
In the future the R&D products the SKIF-NEDRA program will produce will help create a united smart grid computing system for exploring subsurface resources in Belarus.
The R&D program SKIF-NEDRA of the Union State of Belarus and Russia has been in progress since 2015. Software is developed as part of the program for processing and analyzing seismic data and for geological-hydrodynamic and geomechanical modelling. The program is supposed to optimize the creation of high-performance computers for the extraction industry. The results are being actively assimilated by Belarusian enterprises, including Belaruskali, Belgorhimprom, and the geology R&D center.
