The supercomputer significantly outperforms all other computers in terms of performance and characteristics.
As a rule, modern supercomputers consist of high-performance server computers connected to each other with a high-speed backbone to achieve high performance.
There are 15 supercomputers in Russia. Seven of them are in the Top 500 richest in the world. Yandex. Two are Sberbank, one owns Moscow State University and one belongs to MTS.
All of them are used for computing volumes, for example, for artificial intelligence, natural language processing, computer vision, and predictive analytics.
Also, all supercomputers in Russia use NVIDIA equipment. It can be a central processor or powerful specialized video cards.
On July 1, it became known that NVIDIA had ceased to distribute its stake in public companies. The company does not block the current license, but if they are suspended, a problem may begin in the operation of Yandex, Sberbank and MTS supercomputers, because they used NVIDIA A100 and DGX-2 graphics.
Source: Iphones RU
