Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @05:04AM 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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Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · 2007-12-11 05:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Imagine a beo... ah nevermind.
Re:They are the Boogeymen! by PitaBred · 2007-12-11 07:01 · Score: -1, Offtopic

All I know is that I'm voting for him if I can. Write-in if necessary.

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