Eurotech Signs a Collaboration Agreement with RSC, PSI and Intel to Address Russian and European Supercomputers Market
Amaro (Italy), March 4th, 2009
Eurotech S.p.A. (ETH.MI) today announces that it has signed a scientific, industrial and commercial collaboration agreement to address the growing market of supercomputers in the Russian Federation, CIS and Europe. The agreement fosters the development of high performance computing technologies, aimed at the manufacturing and deployment of powerful, reliable and efficient supercomputers.
The collaboration agreement has been presented yesterday during a press conference held at Program Systems Institute headquarters in Pereslavl-Zalessky, north-east of Moscow.
Partners in this collaboration are:
- RSC SKIF, a Russian company that will carry out design, development, manufacturing and commercial activities in the Russian Federation and the CIS
- Program Systems Institute (PSI), is the leading Research Institute on High-performance computing of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), which will provide scientific and technical support to the development of supercomputing solutions
- Eurotech, which will bring to the partnership its latest supercomputing architecture (Aurora) and will be responsible for designing and manufacturing the machines
- Intel, which will act as a supporting party, providing the processors and assisting the other parties in development and marketing activities.
"High Performance Computing is a strategic know-how for Russia where investments have increased more than 20-fold in the last 10 years and are expected to continue an accelerated growth. We estimate about 400 M$ in the next few years as Russian HPC market size for the machines of the Aurora class", explains Sergei Abramov, Director of PSI RAS. "Supercomputers are instruments for gaining superiority, both in economics and in technology. We are most delighted to have collaboration with Eurotech on expanding Aurora supercomputing architecture and we are looking forward to boost our scientific and engineering forefront applications."
"Aurora represents a new class of supercomputing machines, a milestone in terms of price/performance, processors density and low power consumption" says Giampietro Tecchiolli, Vice President and CTO of Eurotech. "Thanks to the contributions coming from PSI and RSC and the support coming from Intel we expect Aurora series supercomputers to play a primary role in the HPC Market."
"Aurora supercomputers will fully exploit the potential of our next generation Intel processors such as the Intel Xeon 5500 series (Nehalem) processors" explains Andrey Semin, HPC Technology Manager at Intel Europe. "We are really pleased to support the collaboration between Eurotech, RSC and PSI".
About RSC SKIF Company
RSC SKIF created in 2008 in order to design and manufacture supercomputing systems of "SKIF" family, as well as develop software and deliver services for the supercomputer industry. The main priority for RSC SKIF is to ramp adoption of Aurora-based designs, develop software and deliver services to satisfy supercomputer customer needs in Russia and CIS countries.
About Program Systems Institute
Ailamazyan Program Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (PSI RAS) has been established in 1984. Since its creation the main research areas of PSI were: high-performance computing, software and programming languages for parallel supercomputing architectures, software development automation, artificial intelligence systems, telecommunication systems and high-performance networks, optimal control theory and medical IT. PSI is a leading body inside Russian Academy of Sciences in research in these directions. PSI plays the lead role in the Russian part of collaboration consortium for Russian-Belarus Supercomputing programs "SKIF" and "SKIF-GRID". Additional information about PSI can be found (in Russian) at http://skif.pereslavl.ru/psi-info/
About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.
About Eurotech
Eurotech (ETH.MI) is a company based in Italy and with operating locations in Europe, North America and Asia. It is active in the research, development and marketing of miniaturised computers for special applications (NanoPCs) and high-performance computers (HPCs). With these two classes of products, Eurotech aims at becoming a leader in the pervasive computing Grid infrastructure, which can enable an entire range of value-added services and functions in the transportation, defence, industrial, medical and research sectors.
