SPbU will buy system blocks for almost half a million rubles apiece

St. Petersburg State University announced the purchase of 54 system units and 54 monitors with a total cost of 30,187,728 rubles. On computers plan to spend 26 704 728 rubles — 494 532 rubles for each. Another 3,483,000 rubles will be allocated for monitors costing 64,500 rubles apiece. Information is placed in the public procurement system.

Judging by the technical task, the university does not need ordinary office computers, but powerful workstations. Processors should have at least 16 cores and 32 threads, the amount of RAM is at least 64 GB with the possibility of expansion to 256 GB or more. There is also a discrete graphics card with 16 GB of video memory, an SSD drive with a volume of 2 TB and an additional hard drive of at least 2 TB.

Requirements for the technique include reading speed SSD at least 7200 MB / s and power supply from 850 watts.

Monitors should have a diagonal of at least 27 inches, a 4K resolution and a refresh rate of 100 Hz. The specification also specifies an IPS-matrix, a USB hub and the ability to adjust the position of the screen, including turning it into portrait mode.

Such computers can be used for complex calculations, three-dimensional modeling, video and graphics processing, as well as working with large amounts of data. A powerful video card allows you to use them for artificial intelligence tasks, including training and launching neural networks. At the same time, the specific purpose of the purchased equipment was not disclosed by SPbU.