Russia Upgrades Supercomputer for AI-Driven Scientific Research

New liquid-cooling and GPU technologies significantly boost performance of the Govorun system, positioning it for next-gen computing tasks.

Engineers from the RSC Group, working with the Laboratory of Information Technologies at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), have completed a major upgrade to the Govorun supercomputer. The modernization has greatly improved both computational power and energy efficiency, making it particularly well-suited for solving complex problems in the field of artificial intelligence.

According to Sergei Shmatov, Director of the JINR Laboratory of Information Technologies, the key enhancement was the addition of 16 GPU accelerators, which increased system performance by 30 percent. For the first time globally, Russian engineers at RSC also introduced a new liquid-cooling system, which reduces heat emissions while enhancing hardware stability.

The system was also fitted with two data storage servers, each with a capacity of one petabyte.

Originally launched in 2018, Govorun became the world’s first hyperconverged supercomputer with full liquid cooling. Its recent upgrade reaffirms Russia’s leadership in the field of high-performance computing.