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> I tried to buy an Elbrus-4C computer and have it shipped from Russia to the UK back in 2015 and it proved impossible.

I find this to be the most interesting fact of the blog post...I wish author could elaborate more.

Back then these were designed specifically for government agencies within Russia. Suppliers weren’t allowed to ship them outside of Russia unless you could prove it was for certain research projects. I found someone that was willing to buy a Elbrus motherboard and ship it to me, it got stuck at Russian customs and returned to the sender - fortunately he managed to return it to the supplier and I got my money back.

given the interest to the platform, it seems somebody in Russia can run a niche business - an Elbrus CPU cloud service, i.e. a garage with a bunch of Elbrus-es (though it is pretty pricey - the 1-4 socket systems with Elbrus 8S cost $5-$20K)

Btw, couple months ago MCST established an official public forum for Elbrus users/partners/etc. Mostly in Russian, though most people there would understand English too. That is performance numbers - various Elbrus-es vs. i7 2600 - posted by a user there http://forum.elbrus.ru/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=6193

Seems like the Russian equivalent of ITAR.

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