The new MSU supercomputer will be installed in Q3'09 and have 258,48 Tflop/s performance. Early next year the machine will be upgraded to 500 Tflop/s. The interconnect wil be a QDR 4x InfiniBand and there will be a 3-level parallel file system storage with 348 TByte capacity and 20/16 GB/sec theoretical read/write speed. The system is a hybrid supercomputer with 2720 dual socket (Intel Xeon) in 85 T-Blade II chassis and 16 dual socket (PowerXCell 8i). The system's memory is 34 TByte. The system will be installed by T-platforms, a Russian company.

But there is more to the supercomputing infrastructure in Russia than one near Pflop/s system. There is collaboration between funding agencies, ministries, government, and the mass-media. The Russian TOP50 of the most powerful supercomputers in the country is just one example. There is also an all-Russian web-portal on HPC and parallel computing.

In Russia there is a supercomputing community of industrial, scientific and educational organisations explained Vladimir Voevodin. There is also a Supercomputing Consortium of Russian Universities and several supercomputing conferences and scientific schools for students.

The Supercomputing Consortium of Russian Universities was founded by the Moscow State University; Nizhni Novgorod State University; Tomsk State University; and the South-Ural State University. The agreement was signed on December 23, 2008, and the organisation's website is at http://hpc-russia.ru

There are also Grid and distributed computing activities.

There are also close contacts with leading world and Russian supercomputing companies, such as Intel, HP, IBM, and T-Platforms. There is for instance, a Joint MSU-Intel center on High Performance Computing.