http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/01/28/2861
what does this mean
S&P predicts that Russia’s reserves will fall to just three months of current account payments by 2017, down from seven months last year.
nice pun.sepheronx wrote:
Seriously, Baka is a thorn in the ass.
collegeboy16 wrote:nice pun.sepheronx wrote:
Seriously, Baka is a thorn in the ass.
par far wrote:I don't know why the Rouble is falling again, I thought Russia had bought most it's oil stocks back and it would help.
http://inserbia.info/today/2014/12/grandmaster-putin-russia-earns-20-bln-recovers-stocks-of-its-companies/
An old article but a good one.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/financial-warfare-the-anglo-american-caliphate-confronts-brics/5400805
AlfaT8 wrote:A bit off topic.
After a bit of searching i was actually able to find Russia's Amazon, called Ulmart.
http://www.ulmart.ru/
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%EB%EC%E0%F0%F2
Problem was the site is completely Russian, so i couldn't navigate properly, obviously this was veered mostly towards the domestic market, that said i really wished i could've checked if i could get an Elbrus Laptop/Rig sent my way, pity.
P.S: Apologies to sepheronx, i guess.
AlfaT8 wrote:A bit off topic.
After a bit of searching i was actually able to find Russia's Amazon, called Ulmart.
http://www.ulmart.ru/
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%EB%EC%E0%F0%F2
Problem was the site is completely Russian, so i couldn't navigate properly, obviously this was veered mostly towards the domestic market, that said i really wished i could've checked if i could get an Elbrus Laptop/Rig sent my way, pity.
P.S: Apologies to sepheronx, i guess.
sepheronx wrote:
Tl;Dr - No Elbrus CPU on civil market ATM and all available ones for ministries and military.
Best you can do is try to contact MCST to get an engineering sample.... All of them are soldered onto the PCBs as well.
kvs wrote:
They only sell foreign brands or systems based on Intel or AMD.
AlfaT8 wrote:sepheronx wrote:
Tl;Dr - No Elbrus CPU on civil market ATM and all available ones for ministries and military.
Best you can do is try to contact MCST to get an engineering sample.... All of them are soldered onto the PCBs as well.
Damn it, at this rate i'll be cold, dead and buried, by the time they get them into the civil market.kvs wrote:
They only sell foreign brands or systems based on Intel or AMD.
FFS, are you telling me there are no Russian made products available on Russia's own e-retail site??
sepheronx wrote:
All he said was about computers. Not other products. If you want a Russian computer, why not purchase a kraftway then? http://kraftway.ru/
If you want one using an ARM processor, I already linked you to Module, whom makes their own that you can order from. For 3280 Rubles + VAT.
kvs wrote:Funny thing about server vendors, their markups are so huge that the ruble FX change can be swallowed with little price change.
I have put together quad socket Opteron 6100 and 6200 systems for work before and was shocked by the prices that Dell and HP
charged for nearly identical systems. They were over three times more expensive.
These days the motherboards are all made in China. The days of Taiwan being the source are long gone. So Russian companies
can source most of the components for low prices from China. The "pain" is in sourcing Intel or AMD server processors. But I
think that if NATO tries to play hardball and impose import restrictions on Russia they will get a surprise. Both China and Russia
will collaborate to introduce a generic RISC CPU to replace both Intel and AMD. The Elbrus is like some ivory tower research
project. It is wonderful they got VLIW to actually work (Intel failed with Itanium) but they need a Plan B. Making an Opteron/Xeon
clone would be worthwhile and they would not be starting from scratch.
kvs wrote:There are some issues with the Elbrus design. It takes a serious performance hit if you want to use 64 bit floating point.
The Intel and AMD server and desktop processors do not have any performance penalty in going from 32 bit fp to 64 bit.
The Elbrus seems optimized for power consumption and the die area is smaller than it would be if they designed it to
do 64 bit fp. I am quite certain this is not a limitation of VLIW.
However, low power consumption per core is valuable. Massively parallel systems suck huge amounts of power
including that required to cool them. Lower power per core means less heat emission.
This is all off topic, but an interesting challenge for import substitution.
Transition economies experienced a 51% decline in their FDI inflows, reaching an estimated US$45 billion as regional conflict and sanctions on the Russian Federation the largest host country in the region − have deterred foreign investors (especially from developed countries)
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FDI flows to the Russian Federation are estimated to have fallen by 70% to an estimated US$19 billion, due to both the country's negative growth prospects andthe exceptional level reached in 2013 ( because of the US$55 billion Rosneft−BP transaction) Major oil and gas companies based in developed countries have cancelled or withheld equity investments in the Russian Federation.
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