OREANDA-NEWS. Andrey Svinarenko and Vsevolod Opanasenko, respectively the CEO of the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs and the general director of the company T-Platforms, attended the official opening of T-Nano in Moscow. The nanotechnology center has a budget exceeding two billion rubles of which the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs is cofinancing 1.2 billion rubles.

T-Nano will help develop startup companies in microelectronics and hardware devices, robotic technology, artificial intelligence, and systems to transmit and store data. It will also provide rental services for computational capacity, perform customized computing, model physical processes, and carry out scientific experiments.

T-Nano will house a computing cluster with capacity of 220 teraflops for use by project companies of the nanocenter. Those services will also be offered to external customers. When construction is complete, the T-Nano cluster will be one of the top 500 computing centers in the world measured by capacity.

The Supervisory Board of the nanotechnology center has already approved 15 startups. Two more will be added before the year ends.

The project to establish the T-Nano center in Moscow was chosen during a call for proposals from the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs in 2011. It was the fund's fourth tender. Except T-Nano there are presently six fund-supported nanotechnology centers operating in Russia.