President Medvedev laid out five major tasks in this field:
- determining priority areas of application of supercomputers and grid computing [simultaneously applying multiple servers to a single task] in national security and socio-economic development;
- developing measures to improve the domestic electronic component base so that it better corresponds with the production needs of supercomputers;
- creating a legislative framework that applies to supercomputers;
- ensuring the conditions for constructing grid networks and developing specialised software; and,
- organising a special system for training experts in Russia's leading universities.