The new Russian supercomputer was named "Govorun"

More than ten supercomputers operate on the territory of Russia, the leader among which is Lomonosov-2. Its performance is more than 2 petaflops, which provides him 63rd place in the TOP 500 ranking of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Employees of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, located in the Moscow region of Dubna, presented a new supercomputer "Govorun", which will be used to process data obtained from the future heavy ion collider NICA.

The new supercomputer was named in honor of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Govorun - a Soviet mathematician, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and editor-in-chief of the legendary journal "Programming". Besides the employees of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, specialists from Intel, NVIDIA, IBS Platformix and PCK also worked on the creation of the computer. The supercomputer is built on the basis of 72-core Intel Xeon Phi 7290 and Intel Xeon Gold 6154. Information between the compute nodes is implemented using Intel Omni-Path technology at a speed of 100 Gbps.

The productivity of "Govorun" is 1 petaflops, which is equivalent to a quadrillion of computing operations with floating point per second. This automatically makes it a member of the TOP 500 ranking of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The developers are very proud of the fact that they managed to realize an incredibly efficient liquid cooling system using no more than 6% of the energy consumed by the supercomputer. The main task of Govorun will be modeling the dynamics of the collision of heavy nuclei at the collider NICA. In addition, it will be used in studies related to new materials.

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