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09MOSCOW677
2009-03-20 08:27:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:  

EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: MOSCOW STATE

Tags:  BEXP ETRD ETTC RS 
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DE RUEHMO #0677 0790827
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 200827Z MAR 09
FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW
TO RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC PRIORITY
INFO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2451
RHMFIUU/US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION WASHINGTON DC
UNCLAS MOSCOW 000677 

SIPDIS

USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES
USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA
USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN
USDOC FOR 532/BIS/OEA/TWILLIS/EHOLLAND/ANALYST

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: MOSCOW STATE
UNIVERSITY, COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND CYBERNETICS FACULTY,
MOSCOW, RUSSIA.

REFTELS: USDOC 0488

UNCLAS MOSCOW 000677

SIPDIS

USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES
USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA
USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN
USDOC FOR 532/BIS/OEA/TWILLIS/EHOLLAND/ANALYST

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: MOSCOW STATE
UNIVERSITY, COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND CYBERNETICS FACULTY,
MOSCOW, RUSSIA.

REFTELS: USDOC 0488


1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is
prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act.


2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the
legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Moscow State University,
Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Faculty, Moscow, Russia.
The university is listed on BIS license applications: D384612 as the
ultimate consignee of one (1) IBM Blue Gene/P high performance
computer containing two (2) racks. ECCN: 4A003. The licensee is IBM,
1301 K Street NW, Suite 1100, West Tower, Washington, DC 20005.


3. On March 18, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES
Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment
verification at the offices of Moscow State University,
Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Faculty, Leninskie Gory,
MGU, Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Evgeny
Moiseev, Dean, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics,
Anatoly Gulyaev, Deputy Dean, Alexander Lukshin, Vice Dean for
International Relations and Penko Dinev, Manager of US Export
Regulations, IBM Central and Eastern Europe.


4. The Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics
and Cybernetics was founded in 1970 by the Russian mathematician
A.N. Tikhonov. The Faculty of Computational Mathematics and
Cybernetics is a leading research and training center in Russia for
all fields of computing and software development. The Faculty of
Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics has over 2000
undergraduate students, of which 200 are foreign students from
countries not/not subject to restricted use of the reftel
commodity.


5. The IBM Blue Gene/P high performance computer is the only one of
its kind in Russia. The IMB Blue Gene/P is the 4th most powerful
computing system in Russia and the 128th most powerful in the
world.


6. The IBM Blue Gene/P high performance computer is secured inside a
vaulted card-key access room accessible to only three faculty
members. A special Faculty of Computational Mathematics and
Cybernetics committee decides what projects the IBM Blue Gene/P will
be used for. Access to the Blue Gene/P is via a special login
assigned by the committee. Each time the system is accessed a
permanent record of the login is made. No foreign students are
issued a login.


7. The export control team determined that the IBM Blue Gene/P is
located at the consigneeQs facility. The entire shipment is
accounted for. The system is being used for the end use for which
it was licensed. There are no indications of impropriety and
consigneeQs answers were not evasive.


8. Recommendations: Post recommends Moscow State University,
Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Faculty, Moscow, Russia,
as reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin commodities.
(FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON)
BEYRLE