Speech at Meeting of Commission for Modernisation and Technological Development of Russia's Economy.Part 2
July 22, 2009
Sarov
Выступление на заседании Комиссии по модернизации и технологическому развитию экономики.Part 2
22 июля 2009 года
Саров
An equally important challenge for the government is maintaining the conditions for scientific research and various forms of development in the field of fundamental physics. Essentially, this is the theoretical foundation for all of these future advances. To do this, the Government has drafted a medium-term federal target programme, Atomic Energy Technologies of the New Generation. The programme funding will commence next year and amount to over 120 billion rubles between 2010 and 2012. Well, this is the first subject on our agenda, our related plans and my basic comments.
And now, Id like to say a few words on the other subject of todays meeting. The second subject on our agenda is approval of the projects aiming to develop supercomputers. Of course, the fact that we are discussing this issue in Sarov is also no accident; now that there is a global ban on nuclear testing, the reliability of a nuclear complex or nuclear shield can only be tested through the use of computer models, as we just discussed. Thus, the most powerful supercomputers in the country will be located at federal nuclear centres. The same is true in other countries as well. The challenge to create these supercomputers has already been formulated; we will discuss this today, and soon after, we will be addressing this issue at a meeting of the Russian Federation Security Council.
By 2011 this Research Institute of Experimental Physics is expecting to create a computer capable of running a quadrillion simultaneous operations. The government has allotted over 2.5 billion rubles to this project which will be gradually developed in the future to further increase the performance capacity for supercomputers. This will include using todays existing technologies in distributed systems, so-called GRID systems, making them more widely available to more users and geographical regions.
Today, it is paramount to create the appropriate software. We talked about this just now with colleagues and young researchers. Clearly, without this kind of software, it will be impossible to use such powerful computing devices, because the two elements are interdependent. In this regard, we are currently in fairly good shape, in spite of our setbacks in the 1990s. As far as programming is concerned, things look good, and in some areas, we may even be ahead of our main competitors.
In order to carry out these projects, we need highly-trained specialists. We should pay particular attention to training centres at major education and research institutions.
I also know that the Commission has not been wasting any time; the initial meetings have been held, and specific projects have been submitted for discussion projects that will be priorities in our subsequent work. I hope and count on this Commission getting off to a good start. Whats most important now is not to relax, even during the summer holiday season. I would therefore like to suggest that we present detailed timelines for implementing these projects at the Commissions next meeting, as we agreed. We must understand exactly what will happen, and at what time, because the purpose of creating this Presidential Commission remains the same as before to tackle and advance all the decisions we consider being indispensable for our country. Otherwise, we shouldnt have organised yet another Presidential structure.
I would also like to note that I have fulfilled the promises I made and the responsibilities I took on. And so, just last week, I signed amendments to a law on technological regulation, in accordance with which any technical regulations must include energy efficiency requirements, otherwise they may not be enacted. This is now a general rule. These decisions must be a driving force in our efforts on improving the competitive ability of our nations economy.
As we all agreed, this Commission will meet at least once every month, in spite of the fact that all of us have busy schedules. Todays meeting in Sarov will address nuclear technology and supercomputer technology; in August, I propose that we discuss pharmaceuticals, medical technologies and IT; and in September, we can talk about outer space technologies and energy efficiency. But this is just a proposal, up for discussion.
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Хорошо бы, что бы модернизация затронула не только (и не столько) оборонную промышленность, но легкую, модернизацию транспорта (ездить в поездах и автобусах бывает опасно для жизни и здоровья !) Поднять уровень жизни россиян до уровня нормально-цивилизованнои страны !!!
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