Palo Alto, California-based HP said it would use the lab to develop new methods for extracting, analyzing and organizing structured and unstructured data from the web and elsewhere.
It will be the third R&D facility the company has opened during the past five years, in addition to labs in China, India, the UK, Israel and Tokyo. Researchers at the Russian lab would work jointly with HP scientists in Palo Alto, Bristol and Beijing, as well as other HP business units elsewhere, said the company.
HP chief strategy and technology officer Shane Robison said Russia was a high-growth region with a depth of technology talent. During the past year, HP established its first external data center in Russia, at the Kurchatov Institute, to research future utility computing systems.
