On April 3, 2002 the Academic Board of NSU took a resolution to establish the Chair of Parallel Computing at the Department of Information Technology. The base institute of the chair is Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (formerly Computation Center).

The main areas of research at the chair are models of parallel computing, architecture of high-performance computers, system and applied parallel software.

The chair prepares bachelors majoring in Informatics and Computer Engineering (speciality 552800) and masters majoring in High-Performance Computers (speciality 552802). Students majoring at the chair are involved in various projects concerning design of complex academic and applied models of natural phenomena and technical devices; languages, systems and technologies of parallel programming; computation models and innovative architectures of high-performance computers. These research projects provide a basis for future diploma theses of the students.

The chair is provided with the most modern equipment. There is a computer class with 8 workplaces organized for students. Students can also use the resources of the Siberian Supercomputer Center: a Shared Memory Server (4 CPUs Intel Quad Core X7350; 256 GB RAM; 187,5 GFlops), cluster NKS-160 (168 Itanium 2 processors; more than 1 TFlops), cluster NKS-30 (100 CPUs Intel Xeon E5450; 4,8 TFlops), as well as cluster MVS-1000M (768 processors Alpha) of the Interagency Supercomputer Center of RAS.

The chair invites promising students for graduation projects and further enrolment to master and postgraduate studies.