Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre

Russian computer science school

Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre (Russian: Вычислительный центр им. А. А. Дородницына РАН), known as the Computing Centre of the Academy of Sciences (CC RAS) until 2015, is a research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. It was established in 1955.

Its areas of research include:

Computational Fluid Dynamics
Mathematical Physics
Mathematical modeling of Climatic Ecological Processes and other Nonlinear Phenomena
Solid mechanics and Elastic-Plastic Problems
Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
Computer Aided Design
Optimization Methods, Linear and Nonlinear programming
Analytical mechanics and Lyapunov's Stability of Motion
Rigid body dynamics and Space Dynamics
Interactive Optimization and Decision support systems
Parallel Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Mathematical modeling of Economic Processes
Software development

The game Tetris was created by Alexey Pajitnov at the Computing Centre.

After 15 June 2015, CC RAS was included in Federal research centre "Informatic and Control" of RAS and now no longer exists as an independent institute.