SSD General Information

The SSD is a part of Computing Center of Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Computing Center of RAS is located in Siberian Scientific Center, that has been created near the city of Novosibirsk in the late 50s, also known as "Academgorodok" ("Academic Village"). Initially it was conceived as a complex Cybernetic Centre, where the applied research in different areas would be supported by the leading development of mathematics and computer science. During the 60s and 70s such distinguished scientists as Sergey Sobolev, Leonid Kantorovich, Alexey Lyapunov, Andrey Ershov, and others have been working in the Academgorodok. In retrospect, we can state now, without exaggeration, beginning from a early 60s the Russian research in parallel computing has been concentrated in Siberia.

The SSD performs the complex study of diversified fields of parallel computer science. We are mantaining this diversity and encourage the researches in various directions to provide the "critical mass" of results which are necessary to develop progressive computing technologies. It is in parallel computing technology that the newest results of the scientific investigations and practical experience are combined. As every pragmatic activity the parallel computing technologies demand a complex approach to be realized well enough.

It is necessary here to bear in mind that Computing Centre is a huge complex institute. It consists of 11 departments (from 2 to 6 laboratories):

• pure geophysics,
• applied geophysics,
• mathematical modelling of atmosphere and ocean processes,
• mathematical modelling of hydrodynamics processes,
• statistic modelling in physics,
• mathematical problems of physics and chemistry,
• image processing,
• design automation and computer graphics,
• mathematical modelling of informatic systems,
• telecommunication systems,
• supercomputer software.

One of the SSD aims is to support the research work of these departments by parallel computing technologies. The problems of these departments are the basic source of our applications.

Our researches are concentrated in the following fields:

• formal models of parallel computations,
• parallel architectures,
• parallel languages and systems,
• parallel program synthesis,
• organization of parallel computation on MIMD architectures,
• parallel solution of large size problems,
• parallel technologies of large size problems solution,
• cellular computations.

The SSD supports good partnership with the different research Institutions as in Russia as over the world. Among the best partners we can list

• State University of Novosibirsk,
• State Technical University of Novosibirsk,
• Institute of System Informatics RAS,
• Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics RAS,
• Institute of Computational Technologies RAS,
• Electrotechnical University of St.-Petersburg,
• Research Institute KVANT (Moscow),
• State Technical University of St.-Petersburg,
• Institute de Mechanique des Fluides (Marseille, France),
• ONERA/CERT (Toulouse),
• IBP-LITP University Paris 7 Denis Diderot (France),
• University of Milano (Italy),
• University of Aizu (Japan).

Technical University of Novosibirsk has established the Chair on Parallel Computing Technologies, staff members of the Chair are recruited among the stuff members of SSD. This is a special form of education organization in Russia intended, on one side, to involve active researchers of RAS in teaching of modern disciplins, and to provide for students an access to modern equipment and technologies concentrated in research institutes of RAS.

Every year the Chair offers up to 5-7 Master programmes and about the same number of Ph.D. programmes in parallel Computer Science.

The page last updated on October 2, 2000. Maintained by Elvire Kuksheva.