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Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts
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."
...he now has the justification for invading Iran.
Not only can they never be allowed to have nukes but it will be a cold day in hell before they are allowed to get the processing power to run Windows Vista!!!!!
Folks, no need to panic or call for invasion just yet. They still have twenty two more letters before they can get from AMD to WMD.
Intel Inside, at least we don't support terrorisim....
I think it falls under the "It's my ball, and I'm going home" set of rules.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
Im shocked that there may be resellers who are less than reputable!
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Is it just a coincidence that their supercomputer has 216 processors which is 6 * 6 * 6 ???
I guess we'll expect to see Team Tehran moving up in the seti@home rankings.
I suggest that from now on, we just use "Obligatory .... Nevermind" and bypass any pretense of anything else.
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See below for example
Subject: Obligatory
Comment: Nevermind
We'll eventually just shorten it to
Subject: Nevermind
Comment:
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Yea but does it run Linu... Oh, so it does. Excellent.
Some days I just get bored and Troll post all the memes I can think of...
No, they just want to play WoW without any lag.
There is no "disagree" moderation, and troll, flamebait and overrated are not valid substitutes
This is notable because it is the largest amount of computer power assembled that will never be used to collect porn.
Maybe they want to play a wicked fast game of pong...
Mohammed.
Ahmadinejade is pretty much an idiot
Yeah, but our idiots are better than their idiots!
U-S-A! U-S-A!
I guess they went to the blowout sale for the CompUSA in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
big uncover job and the amd quad-core bug is part of a hidden back door that will be gone in the next rev and this is where the stop ship cpus are going.
Seriously, to get that many computers into Iran they might have needed *a second truck*.
-- The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always.
When Iran annexes Poland, I'll support attacking them.
-- The act of censorship is always worse than whatever is being censored. Always.
Not anymore.
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
Calling somebody who apparently was in the top 99.9% on his college entrance exams [...] an idiot is 'pretty much' lame.
In the top 99.9%, you say? That's a claim you don't hear every day...
"Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion
I actually have a screenshot of that.
Since they're using AMD, this should be an easy target to visit with your basic heat seeking missile.
Unless, of course, the signature overwhelms the sensor.
Never shake hands with a man you meet in a fertility clinic.
CompUSA + Iraq = Compaq
$signature =~ s/$signature//;
Ha Ha, jokes on Ahmadinejad. The parallel performance increase of Uranium enrichment algorithms doesn't scale well past 30 processors! They overbought by at least 180 CPUs.
AMDs, WMDs... What's the difference, really?
Nothing really, they're all "east, west, south, and north somewhat".
My other SIG is a Sauer.
You can't bash Microsoft products on Slashdot and get away with it.
In fact what you've built for yourself is a karma pump. Normal people mod you +1 funny, because your comment IS funny but you don't get mod points for that, just visibility. Microsoft reps then mod you "Redundant" or "Offtopic" to try hide your slur on their product, which costs you karma and knocks your score down. Real people then feed you a few more non-karma "+1 Funny"s and boost you back into the range of the MS mods.
Rinse, repeat and say bye-bye to your rep.
It's great evidence that MS marketing is gaming the system though. Who else would have a motivation for stifling a joke?
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."