USSR: LARGE-SCALE COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Created: 5/17/1978

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USSRi Large-Scale Computer Systems Aside from their widely publicized general-purpose computers, the Soviets have developed and are developing some advanced computers capable of cal-culating at high speed. These computers will help the Soviets solve complex military and technological problems in such areas as air defense, ASW, nuclear weapons design, aircraft design, seismic analysis, and hydrometeorological calculations. In the past, the limited performance of Soviet scientific computers has put major burdens on algorithm and software developers; with their new computers, Sovietwill be able to address their problems in shorter amounts of timeore straightforward

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Two large-scale systems, there indicative of Soviet progress in developingcomputers. They are comparable in computational capabilities with some of the largest and fastest US

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computer systems now available commerciallythe CDC Cybernd the Proto-types for both models probably already exist, and there are indications that thesfinal engineering testing. Production of multiple copies will probably begin As is the case in the United States, the Soviet large-scale scientific computers are not intendedbe produced in the large numbers that general-purpose computers such as the CEMA countries' "Ryad" models are manufactured. Note: In addition to the overview presented above, the briefing can be supported and supplemented with the following items:

Historical details of development of large-scale computers.

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large-scale computer, other than thehat was developed for tho military and ia well' advanced over any computers intendod for civil uses.

Information on the status and prospects of large

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general-purpose computers patterned after computers of the IBM Corporation. Implications for Soviet ability toariety of important military and civilof computers.

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