MLIT JINR develops cooperation with CMC MSU On 18 February 2025, a seminar “Research Activities of JINR” organized for the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC) of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) took place at the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies. Third-year students and first-year postgraduates of the Department of Automated Systems for Computing Complexes (ASCC) of CMC MSU, who were accompanied by Head of the Department Ruslan Smelyansky, came to Dubna to participate in the event. MLIT Scientific Leader MLIT Scientific Leader Vladimir Korenkov welcomed the seminar participants and presented an overview of the Laboratory’s scientific activities. MLIT Researcher Maxim Zuev told the students about tasks solved on the “Govorun” supercomputer. A questions-and-answers session concluded the lecture part of the seminar, which RUDN students who were currently undergoing an internship at MLIT also joined. Later, the MSU CMC students went on an excursion to the JINR Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex (MICC), where Maxim Zuev talked about interesting facts from the MLIT history and the MICC development, and MICC Chief Engineer Alexey Vorontsov answered the students’ questions about the computing complex. On the same day, accompanied by Yelena Mazhitova, the organizer of the visit from MLIT, the guests visited the interactive exhibition “JINR Basic Facilities”. Nikita Sidorov, a software engineer at the JINR Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics, told the visitors about the exhibition, the Institute’s history, and the directions of its scientific research. “In addition to the fact that CMC MSU is my alma mater, we are united by a common history. LCTA, as MLIT was previously called, was established four years earlier than CMC MSU. Many notable people, such as Tikhonov, Samarsky, Korolev, who formed the Faculty, also became the founding fathers of our Laboratory. We have a long-standing and fruitful cooperation, which is now receiving a new impetus with the launch of a new master’s course entitled “Data Processing Methods and Technologies in Heterogeneous Computing Environments” in the Dubna MSU branch. Surely, we are highly interested in strengthening our cooperation in the educational activity,” Vladimir Korenkov commented on the visit. “With the launch of the IT course at the Dubna branch, our cooperation is gaining special significance, and I am ready to support this initiative in every possible way. At the same time, as Head of the Department, it is extremely important for me to give students the opportunity to get acquainted with the unique computing complex of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Students have a chance to see what a data center is. When we came here for the first time, I asked the students what impressed them most, the guys said that what impressed them most was that no one talked to them about money, about commercial success, about the opportunity to create something for the market. Here they heard about science, about goals and objectives, they saw genuine enthusiasm. This is extremely significant for students,” Ruslan Smelyansky added. At the end of the visit, first-year postgraduates shared their impressions. “This is my first time in Dubna. Both lectures delivered at MLIT were quite clear, and if you wish, you can delve deeper into the material, study it all, read it. I learned a multitude of new things here, I especially liked excursions, when you could see the major computing powers at MLIT with your own eyes. At the exhibition, I was interested in the exhibits, which, although in a playful form, but quite engagingly presented physical processes occurring in the Laboratories’ research facilities,” Artem Mileshin noted. “This is my second time here, so I have started to understand what they are talking about. I liked the lectures in the Laboratory, and the physics lecture at the exhibition was generally understandable. During the tour at MLIT, I was impressed by the data center, the racks, and their contents. I really enjoyed the exhibition museum with a set of operating system instructions, there were old hard drives, and one huge one was especially impressive,” Danila Zagainov added.
