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| Computing Center of RAS | |
|---|---|
| Name | Computing Center of RAS |
| Native name | Вычислительный центр РАН |
| Established | 1961 |
| Type | Research institute |
| City | Moscow |
| Country | Russia |
| Parent | Russian Academy of Sciences |
Computing Center of RAS is a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences focused on high-performance computing, computational mathematics, and information technologies. The center serves as a hub for scientific computing, providing resources for fields ranging from physics and chemistry to biology and geophysics. It maintains collaborations with national and international institutions to support computational research and data infrastructure.
The origins trace to initiatives in the early 1960s within the Soviet Union to centralize computing resources, influenced by developments at Institute of Cybernetics and projects associated with the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Early equipment acquisitions paralleled deployments at Moscow State University and coordination with Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics and Steklov Institute of Mathematics. During the late Soviet era the center expanded alongside programs such as the ELBRUS processor development and interacted with initiatives at All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Electromechanics and Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering. Post-Soviet transitions involved restructuring under the Russian Academy of Sciences and integration with national programs involving the Skolkovo Innovation Center and Russian federal agencies. The center’s timeline intersects with projects at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Kurchatov Institute, Russian Federal Nuclear Center — All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, and collaborations with universities including Saint Petersburg State University and Novosibirsk State University.
The center is organized into divisions aligned with computational disciplines and support units, echoing organizational models from institutes like the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute and Lebedev Physical Institute. Divisions include computational mathematics, software engineering, supercomputing operations, data centers, and applied research labs, with administrative links to the Department of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Leadership has historically included directors drawn from institutions such as Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Bauman Moscow State Technical University. Committees coordinate peer review and scientific councils analogous to those at Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Facilities encompass supercomputing clusters, data storage arrays, networking labs, and user support centers similar to installations at European Organization for Nuclear Research and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron. Hardware generations have included Soviet-era mainframes, later clusters based on Intel architectures and accelerators such as NVIDIA GPUs, and bespoke systems inspired by designs like Elbrus and custom architectures used at Argonne National Laboratory. Infrastructure supports secure links to national networks such as RunNet and connectivity with international backbones including GEANT and Internet2. The center houses computational grids, virtualization platforms, and specialized environments for modeling used in projects with Roscosmos, Rosatom, and environmental science partners like Institute of Oceanology and Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory.
Research areas include numerical analysis, algorithm development, computational fluid dynamics, climate modeling, bioinformatics, and machine learning, aligning with interests at Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, and Institute of Cytology and Genetics. Services include high-performance computing allocations for researchers from Petersburg State University, data curation for archives akin to those at the Russian State Archive of Scientific-Technical Documentation, and software distribution cooperating with projects at Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences and St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation. The center contributes to national competency in areas relevant to Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Russia), supports computational courses with Higher School of Economics, and provides consulting to industry partners such as Gazprom and Sberbank on large-scale data processing.
The center maintains partnerships with academic institutions including Moscow State University, Novosibirsk State University, Tomsk State University, and international laboratories like CERN and Max Planck Society. It participates in consortia with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, European Space Agency, and research centers such as Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for joint computing initiatives. Collaborative projects involve ministries and agencies like Ministry of Education and Science (Russia), Rosstat, and Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and industrial partnerships with corporations including Yandex and IBM for software and hardware co-development.
Contributions include development of numerical libraries, large-scale simulations for climate change studies tied to institutes like the Hydrometeorological Research Center of Russia, computational models for seismology in collaboration with the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics, and bioinformatics pipelines used by institutes such as the Center for Strategic Planning in Biotechnology. The center took part in creating computational infrastructure for national programs, comparable to efforts at Roshydromet and in projects related to space exploration with Lavochkin Association and State Space Corporation Roscosmos. Software outputs have supported scientific publishing and data sharing analogous to platforms at arXiv and initiatives by the Russian Science Citation Index.
Funding streams include allocations from the Russian Academy of Sciences, grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, contracts with ministries like the Ministry of Energy (Russia), and competitive projects funded by the Presidential Grants Foundation. Governance follows statutes influenced by federal laws governing scientific organizations and oversight by advisory boards comparable to those at Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations. Budgeting and strategic planning involve coordination with regional branches such as the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and national science policy stakeholders including the Government of Russia.
Category:Research institutes in Russia Category:Russian Academy of Sciences