Elbrus 3M - a 100% Russian Computer

On July 4th, 2008, Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) has presented to press a “100% Russian Computer”, Elbrus-3M. Each system has 64 microprocessors Elbrus.

CPU technical details:

• frequency: 300MHz,
• up to 23 commands per cycle per processor,
• EPIC architecture,
• each processor is comparable to Pentium III 500MHz,
• 130 nm technology.

First working prototype of Elbrus CPU has been presented in 1991.  However, during 90s, development was frozen due to financial and organizational issues and been revived about 10 years ago. Next working prototype is known as Elbrus-2000 (E2K), however, it was not stable enough to be considered as a final one.

Now, after all these years, Elbrus is ready and being shipped to customers (primarily Russian military complex). About 100 systems are planned to be delivered to customers by the end of 2008.

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