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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.
This is notable because it is the largest amount of computer power assembled that will never be used to collect porn.
Ahmadinejade is pretty much an idiot
Yeah, but our idiots are better than their idiots!
U-S-A! U-S-A!
CompUSA + Iraq = Compaq
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