December 13, 2012. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation launched a special high-performance computing center in Nizhniy Novgorod, the company’s press service reports.

The center was set up within the framework of the federal special-purpose program aimed at the development of the Russian defense industry sector. The launch of the HPC technologies will mean that Burevestnik, the scientific research institute that houses it and is a member of Uralvagonzavod, will take analytical engineering to a new level by cutting down on the new product development and mastering times and by enhancing the quality of the goods produced.

The HPC data-processing center was set up on the basis of Minin, a supercomputer with peak capacity of 57 TFLOPS (57 trillion floating-point operations per second). The use of this computer will ensure the efficient handling of mechanisms and systems dynamics and strengths issues as well as issues relating to hydro- and fluid dynamics, multi-parametric optimization, and other things connected with the products’ overall performance.