Supercomputers – a new priority for Russia
Published: 28 July, 2009, 17:22
TAGS: Medvedev, Russia, SciTech
Russia's government has pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on building supercomputers in Russia in a bid to revolutionize science and technology in the country.
At a Security Council sitting, President Dmitry Medvedev stressed that most supercomputers currently used in the country are produced in the United States, not Russia.
He added that another opportunity for Russia would be to use "grid technologies" linking hundreds of normal computers into one monster computer.
Supercomputers can create digital models of high-tech products like engines or even model human viruses.
Despite some moderate success, Russia is only 15th in the world with regard to its supercomputer technology.
“If we talk seriously, most businessmen and, surely, bureaucrats don't even know what a supercomputer is. To them it's something like those industrial super machines from the 1920s built to catch up with America and to overtake it. So businesses and officials ignore the capabilities of supercomputers even though their application might very often bring a breakthrough,” Dmitry Medvedev said.
The Russian President added that Russia should develop supercomputer technology "not because it is trendy, but because otherwise we won't be able to produce competitive goods which will be perceived correctly by potential buyers."
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Babeouf - Great comments! this is where it all went wrong for the US, their people got used and abused, like others around the world by the Wall Street cronies. The problem was, no regulation in terms of fair competition and no regulation in terms of national cohesiveness i.e looking after the people of the US as US citizens and other countries as homogenous nations with their own citizens. Peoples of all countries, just got used as pawns in the great financial game. Wall Street and money became superior to citizens, became superior to nations. It all just became a numbers game for the few. Don't get me wrong, I support capitalism 100%, what I don't support is finacial terrorism inflicted on people and nations by Wall Street, who are the financial Al Qaeda of the world, their financial terrorism is in many ways far more reaching and damaging than any bullet, gun or IED. CDS is their WMD. They act contrary to Business, contrary to workers, contrary to customers and contray to nationhood, they do this using the levers of government that they have purchased. I believe with correct regulation in Russia we can avoid these problems, they did start, but the Kremlin quickly administered a knee to the crutch of the Oligarchs, and said no to giving them the levers of power. I respect the Kremlin for this! Government is for the people and the nation, business exists within this framework, it shouldn't own it!
Yes that's America. The ship of state got supplemented by big corporate ships. The ones on Wall Street first sank the ones that made anything. Then they sank themselves. At this very moment the government of the USA is grovelling to the Chinese government. The American economic model enfeebled its manufacturing sector and bloated its financial services. As a result of comparative advantage , in spite of Obama, this process will continue. In 1945 four out of every five cars were produced in America. Now two out of every two large scale frauds is rooted there. That's how they keep their unbalanced trade balanced.
I thing Russia must create a sustentable and independent nation as far as it is posible and apply all of its accumulated knowledge on different disciplines to create market infrastructure and offer products and services of any kind to the world. Russia not only must depend on the gas,armament, ..etc .