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Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts

Posted by Zonk on from the maybe-they-fell-off-the-back-of-a-really-big-truck dept.

Stony Stevenson writes with the news that, despite a ban on US PC hardware, Iranian techs have built an enormously powerful supercomputer from 216 AMD processors. The Linux-cluster machine has a 'theoretical peak performance of 860 gig-flops'. "The disclosure, made in an undated posting on [the University of] Amirkabir's Web site, brought an immediate response Monday from AMD, which said it has never authorized shipments of products either directly or indirectly to Iran or any other embargoed country."

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  1. Re:Oh noes! by Erris · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are about twelve English language stories about this from all over the world but panic about Iran is a US/Israel thing. No one else really cares, so long as they can trade for oil. Fear over a cluster of widely available parts is stupid.

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  2. Re:They are the Boogeymen! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    or about there not being gays like in the US. Maybe he meant as in with their own parades and being in everybody's face

    The hang gays you jackass, even children. Don't make excuses

  3. Busy calculating punishments for women by Jim+in+Buffalo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I hear the computer is busy right now calculating how many public lashings an 11-year-old girl should receive before she is hauled up into the sky by her neck and strangled to death for allowing a group of adult Iranian males to forcibly rape her.

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  4. being in everybody's face by NIckGorton · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Actually, he is an idiot. If you head a country and stand by while the government under your control under the pretext of religion executes teenagers for the crime of having consensual gay sex, you are not just an idiot, you are an evil psychopathic deviant and a fucking moron. Ahmadinejade's idiocy is no different from the fucknuts with a PhD who support intelligent design. Just because you have letters after your name that doesn't protect you from having your head firmly planted up your ass as he most assuredly does. When you let religious superstition dictate your actions and beliefs despite the fact that all logical and scientific sense (and in the case of Ahmadinejade, all sense of human decency) calls for you to reject these superstitious tenets, you define the term idiot.

    Maybe he meant as in with their own parades and being in everybody's face... You mean like straight people do? You know, I really don't mind homophobic shits like you, if you would just act queer in public.