The Prospects of Development in Russia of High-Performance Computing and Predictive Modeling in Modern Technologies

This article is dedicated to the development and application of supercomputers and supercomputer technologies, which constitute a major factor in scientific, technical, and social advance, for solving problems that require large computing capacities. Trends in the use of supercomputers are considered, and the level of equipping advanced countries with supercomputer resources is discussed. Examples of tasks the solution of which is impossible without using computing capacities of tens of petaFLOPS are given. This article was prepared on the basis of a report presented at the meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences on February 16, 2021.