Rogozin: we need collective software development following the example of China, with the participation of the state

    Для создания российской ОС и СУБД предлагается образование государственно-частных партнёрств и освоение миллиардов из бюджета


    On April 18, a fundamental memorandum was published by the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, on a hybrid war unleashed by the United States and the need for Internet censorship in Russia according to the Chinese model. According to lawyers , the implementation of such plans will obviously lead to a widespread denial of the rights of citizens.

    But the authorities continue to bend their line and again offer to adopt the Chinese experience. Today, another shout from the official authorities, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, spoke on another program article. His article “ Russian Chip ” is devoted to import substitution in the software and microelectronics sector “in conditions of foreign policy tensions”.

    Import substitution / software import outage


    “Back in April 2015, the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of Russia estimated the share of foreign software in the domestic market at more than 80%. It is clear that this is not just a dependency, but a dependency at the critical level. This is fraught with the most dramatic consequences, especially in the conditions of growing foreign policy tensions and illegal sanctions imposed on our country, Rogozin writes. “Not to mention that annually billions of dollars of budgetary funds and resources of domestic business are spent on licenses and technical support of foreign software.”

    Rogozin is sure that the confrontation between Russia and “external enemies” will continue for a long time: “If someone hopes that sanctions are about to be lifted and everything will be as before, I will have to disappoint them: sanctions against Russia will never be lifted. While our country will pursue an independent policy, there will be more and more new reasons for the West to fight it with the help of prohibitions, boycotts and restrictions. ”

    There is only one way out of this situation - “development and implementation of our own competitive software products that work independently of the whims of overseas developers and their owners.” That is why in 2015, Russia adopted regulations that define the criteria for Russian software, the owners of which are provided with various preferences during public procurement.

    Collective development


    “I believe that all the measures listed are necessary but not sufficient,” writes Dmitry Rogozin. He believes that "a huge scientific and technical reserve of the country in the IT sphere is dispersed in the form of developments of various scientific and production teams, when virtually every company has its own unique developments: calculations, algorithms, test methods, etc." Therefore, to restore order collective development mechanisms should be introduced , where the state will play a coordinating role, using public-private partnership mechanisms .

    "We are talking, above all, the creation of domestic operating systems, database management systems, virtualization tools and management of the" cloud "infrastructure and others."

    Public-private partnerships require funding from the budget. The required amount of state support in 2016 is 3-5 billion rubles, Rogozin believes.

    The official recommends referring to the example of China: “The new operating system created in this country is the result of an alliance activity of more than 13 development companies with 80 research and development units connected by common standards to create a new desktop and mobile ecosystem complete with local app stores. In this case, all activities were based on the direct support and interest of the state. ”

    For this purpose, launched a two-year project of the Fund for Advanced Studies to create a unified management environment for collective software development (ESA).

    “A centralized storage of software modules, regulatory information and 3D models will be provided based on a single model file format that will create a trusted environment for interaction. Also, one of the project's goals is to create a domestic competence center for software development, including infrastructure software. According to the results of the project implementation, new software can be developed on the basis of platform solutions. This will ensure the unification of the created solutions and reduce the time needed to develop software. In addition, software debugging issues will be resolved, primarily on the domestic computing platform. ” - Dmitry Rogozin

    Russian microprocessors


    In addition to software developers, Russian microprocessor developers should be supported, Rogozin is sure, “especially since the architectures of many modern processors are created with the participation of Russian specialists.”

    The country has a development, gradually reaching the world level of performance. At present, they remain insufficiently in demand, primarily due to the lack of application software, the deputy prime minister said.


    Domestic microprocessors "Baikal" used to create modern robotics / Photo: Reuters / Sergei Karpukhin

    “To involve private developers in creating application software, they need to provide a full-fledged ecosystem, including access to a processor emulator and documentation, along with providing feedback. All this will significantly accelerate the process of creating a variety of, so lacking, now applied domestic software, ”says Dmitry Rogozin, in which direction developers should go.

    For collective software development, Dmitry Rogozin believes, it is necessary to implement “a universal virtualization system that will allow software development designed for operation on domestic microprocessor platforms.”

    These include the Elbrus platform with the national command system and the logical design of the Russian design. They also include domestic developments based on licensed SPARC, ARM and MIPS architectures. In particular, these are the MCST-R and Komdiv processors with the domestic logical design of processor cores and the Baikal microprocessors. There are other domestic developments that use licensed IP cores.

    The ambitions of Dmitry Rogozin and the Advanced Research Foundation are not limited to Russia: “The modularity and openness of technological solutions for this project are designed to attract a wide range of developers of various types of software all over the world,” he said. “Today, we need to create the conditions for a subsequent breakthrough that can lead us into the orbit of sustainable progressive development in the field of information technology.”

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