computer science

T-Platforms

T-Platforms is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand T-Platforms rather than just read about it. In short: T-Platforms was a Russian supercomputer company. Their main competitor was RSC Group.

Key takeaways

T-Platforms belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect T-Platforms to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of T-Platforms from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

T-Platforms was a Russian supercomputer company. Their main competitor was RSC Group. Founded in 2002, T-Platforms Group was headquartered in Moscow, Russia with regional offices in Hanover, Germany, Hong Kong, China and Taipei, Taiwan. The company has implemented more than 300 integrated projects, six of which were included in the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. T-Platforms owns patents on a number of supercomputer technologies and electronic components. T-Platforms’ solutions are used for fundamental and applied research in various fields of science, including life sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematics, as well as for calculation-intensive tasks in engineering, computer graphics and many other disciplines. In 2011, HPCWire named Vsevolod Opanasenko, CEO of T-Platforms, one of 12 most famous and respected people of the global HPC community. In November 2011, the 33,072 processor Lomonosov supercomputer in Moscow developed by T-Platforms ranked number 18 in the world, and the fastest in Russia. It placed 3rd in Europe. In October 2012, T-Platforms delivered its first supercomputer in the US to the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SBU). T-Platforms is part of the plan of the Russian government to focus on larger supercomputers by 2020. In April 2013, the United States Department of Commerce added T-Platforms to their "list of organizations and individuals acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States", preventing the company from buying computer chips produced anywhere in the world if the factories producing them use American technology. The decision was based on US concerns that T-Platforms work includes "the development of computer systems for military end-users, and the production of computers for nuclear research".

T-Platforms was delisted from the list in December 2013/January 2014, after removal request from the company. On March 31, 2022 the company was once again added to the US Government SDN list in an effort to limit the capacity of Russian Aerospace, Marine and Electronics sectors for the war against Ukraine. In August 2023, the company declared bankruptcy.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with T-Platforms

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what T-Platforms claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to T-Platforms before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about T-Platforms ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of T-Platforms

In research: T-Platforms appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses T-Platforms in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: T-Platforms is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Companies based in Moscow, Companies established in 2002, Defunct computer hardware companies, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for T-Platforms outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study T-Platforms in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what T-Platforms means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain T-Platforms out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is T-Platforms in simple terms?

T-Platforms was a Russian supercomputer company. Their main competitor was RSC Group.

Why does T-Platforms matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study T-Platforms?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on T-Platforms.