The aggressor country is trying to “replace” foreign equipment and software in the nuclear industry.
Rosenergoatom, which is part of the state corporation Rosatom, said that testing of Baikal processors has recently begun using a “universal” computer called “Beaver”. This statement was published on the official website of the concern.
According to the report, the concern purchased a batch of Bobrovs in order to test the operation of the Russian chip, and then introduce the devices “into the infrastructure of the generating company.” The tests are supervised by JSC Greenatom (owned by Rosatom). The task of the testers is to check how well the Russian chip and Russian PC cope with the tasks when it comes to ensuring the operation of “industry centralized systems of Rosatom”. From this we can conclude that the state corporation is trying to switch to domestic analogues of hardware and software in order to abandon technology and software from “unfriendly” countries.
Rosenergoatom assures that the PC “Bober”, created by Delta Computers, is “universal”. However, SFF (Small Form Factor) system units, or so-called mini-PCs, have long been produced by Lenovo, Fujitsu, Dell and other international companies. It is known that the Russian analogue has a “Baikal-M” chip “under the hood”, which, according to the specifications of “Baikal Electronics”, has 8 cores. As an operating system, a system is installed under the no less strange name “Novorossiysk”. Actually, it’s just an Astra Linux distribution.
The IT director of Rosenergoatom said that it is strategically important for the Russian Federation to transfer the nuclear industry to Russian chips in order to make it “technologically independent.”
So far, Beber’s computers have been entrusted with managing the document flow. In the future, technology and software will ensure the security of the group’s information systems.
We previously reported that owners of some Android smartphones will soon be able to use satellite communications.
