Yandex says its supercomputers survived the drone strikes and will run from new sites
Yandex
Yandex said its three supercomputers — Lyapunov (12.81 petaflops), Chervonenkis (21.53) and Galushkin (16.02, all Linpack) — were not damaged in the October drone attacks on its data centers and will be moved to new locations before rejoining its service infrastructure, with no restart dates given. The 2021 machines back services such as Translate and neural-network training; Alice head Valery Stromov said capacity handles queries by day and trains models at night.
Why it matters
Much of Russia's frontier training capacity sits on a handful of exposed sites.
Importance: 3/5
Direct follow-up to the data-center strikes, with hardware inventory and relocation confirmed.