MOSCOW, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The Russian government said Monday that it will implement a roadmap to develop high-performance computing and supercomputer infrastructure in efforts to strengthen the country's technological capabilities and competitiveness in key sectors.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order endorsing the plan, the government said in a statement published Monday on the official website.
Under the roadmap, Russia will, in the coming years, take measures to support the development of high-performance computing systems, artificial intelligence algorithms, grid technologies and supercomputer infrastructure.
The plan includes establishing standards for shared supercomputer centers and defining procedures for providing researchers and key industrial organizations with access to these facilities. It also outlines prospects for their further development and modernization.
As part of the initiative, Russia plans to develop a strategy and operating rules for the next-generation National Research Computer Network, which already connects hundreds of leading universities and scientific institutions across the country and provides access to existing supercomputer centers. The network's expansion is expected to facilitate research work particularly in need of processing and transmitting large volumes of data.
The roadmap also involves efforts to develop and deploy domestic algorithms, methods and software for supercomputer computing across various sectors of the Russian economy. ■
