RUSSIA, BELARUS TO DEVELOP A SUPER-COMPUTER

MOSCOW, SEPTEMBER 11 (RIA Novosti) - The T-Platforms group has won a contract for the supply of 288 cluster units, as part of a SCYTH super-computer program launched by the Russia-Belarus Union. The cluster will enable Belarus to achieve various scientific and industrial objectives. The contract has been awarded by the Belarussian R&D group NII-EVM. T-Platforms has been selected from among ten contenders presenting innovative designs from major global computer makers. The contenders had to abide by tough criteria; among other things, they were supposed to offer streamlined and relatively inexpensive engineering solutions reflecting modern worldwide trends.

T-Platforms specialists are to assemble the new cluster's test version as early as this fall; its peak capacity will be 2.5 teraflops (trillion floating point operations per second). This exceeds by 250 percent the SCYTH K-500 cluster's capacity, whose units were assembled by T-Platforms for the SCYTH program in 2003. The SCYTH K-500 cluster was included in the top 500 list of the world's most powerful computers.

T-Platforms, a leading Russian developer of specific cluster options, develops high-capacity solutions for just about any economic sector, including public administration, science, education, and industrial production. This highly-competent group cooperates with leading manufacturers, and can speedily implement just about any engineering solution, no matter how complex. Its products boast an optimal price-quality ratio. T-Platforms has come up with the SCYTH K-500 super-computer's computing units and test configuration; this computer, too, is on the top 500 list.