It is obvious that the development and production of its own computer "hardware" must be, if the state is concerned about its own security. Among these developments is the Elbrus processor, which does not lag behind its foreign counterparts.
Elbrus is a series of domestic processors that have been in development for over 40 years. It was in this processor that in the 80s of the 20th century ideas were implemented that were not "brought to mind" by IBM (there, only 10 years later, the Intel Pentium processor was released).
The Elbrus series of processors was intended for the defense industry. Computers of the same name were equipped with MCC for space flights, nuclear research centers. It is important to note that the developers maintained software compatibility between versions of PCs based on their processor, which made it possible to easily migrate to new versions of hardware and software. Unfortunately, the restructuring and ruin of the country made their own adjustments to this successful project - the third processor of this series was made only in the form of a prototype (a similar processor in the US was called Intel Itanium, was released in the spring of 2001).
The current model of the Elbrus processor is 4C. It is interesting that in the x86 platform emulation mode, more than 20 operating systems were successfully launched on it, among which there were versions of Windows, Linux.
Characteristics of the Elbrus 4C processor:
- clock frequency - 800 MHz,
- number of cores - 4,
- peak performance - 50 Gigaflops.
It is important to note that this processor is intended not only for the "defense" industry, but will also be widely available. Moreover, representatives of the developer's company promised in the very near future to present a new 8-core Elbrus-8S processor with a clock frequency of 1.3 GHz. Its peak performance will reach 250 GFLOPS.
Familiarization with the Elbrus processor may leave an ambiguous impression. Realizing that for a long time the developers were actually paralyzed, one can pay tribute to their perseverance and quality of work. But it is worth noting that despite the seemingly low clock speed, the performance of our processor is not inferior to many modern "stones", which we consider powerful enough to purchase computers based on them.
FLOPS (also flops, flop / s, flops or flop / s; acronym for FLoating-point Operations Per Second, pronounced flops) is a non-systemic unit used to measure the performance of computers, showing how many floating point operations per second are performed given computing system.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz, 2 cores (2006) - 19.2 Gigaflops
Elbrus-4S (1891VM8Ya) 800 MHz 4 cores (2014) - peak performance 25 Gigaflops double precision, 50 Gigaflops single precision
Intel Core i3-2350M 2.3 GHz (2011) - 36.8 Gigaflops
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5 GHz, 4 cores - 40 Gigaflops
Intel Core i7-975 XE (Nehalem) 3.33 GHz, 4 cores (2009) - 53.3 Gigaflops
Elbrus-8S - peak performance 125 Gigaflops double, 250 Gigaflops single
Intel Core i7-4930K (Ivy Bridge), frequencies 3, 7-4, 2 GHz, 6 cores (2013) - 130-140 Gigaflops (theoretical peak 177 Gigaflops).
