Kommersant: The Ministry of Internal Affairs is dissatisfied with the work of Russian processors "Elbrus"
The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is dissatisfied with the work of servers on Russian processors "Elbrus" of the MCST company. Kommersant writes about this.
They pointed out that the digitalization of the department is hindered during the operation of Russian chips. In particular, one of the complaints was that the servers on the Elbrus 8C processor do not support loading the operating system from data carriers, "which does not allow for a sufficient level of fault tolerance of software and hardware complexes."
The representative of the MCST Konstantin Trushkin told the publication that the company is aware of the existing problems, is working to improve the performance of the systems and plans to eliminate the shortcomings in the next updates. It also became known that deliveries of a new, more powerful Elbrus 16C will begin in the first quarter of 2022.
Earlier, the General Director of the ICST, Alexander Kim, came to the conclusion that the amendments proposed by the government to the draft law on import substitution in the field of electronic products contradict the Doctrine of Information Security and the Strategy for the Development of the electronic industry until 2030. He warned that the implementation of the point system from the Ministry of Industry and Trade in the current version will lead to a deterioration of the situation.
Even after 2024, the use of a Russian-made processor and the installation of motherboards in Russia will be unnecessary to get into the register of domestic products. Such a circumstance will sharply reduce the demand for MCST chips and other Russian suppliers, which, in turn, will make the inventory of processors and components to them unclaimed.
On December 17, it was reported that the largest Russian customers of server equipment tested computing equipment on domestic processors and were dissatisfied with its capabilities. In their opinion, the samples presented were unsuitable for use due to too low productivity, high energy consumption and uncompetitive price. The companies agreed to work with Russian servers only if they cope with the tasks and compare in price with their foreign counterparts.
