Iran Claims Two New Supercomputers

dcblogs writes "Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced development of two supercomputers Wednesday. Iranian government news media published a photo spread of one the systems it claims is capable of 89 teraflops, which is far short of the petascale systems in the US and China. There's no independent verification of Iran's claim. But after the Stuxnet attack, Iran may be trying for an IT comeback via supercomputing or just trying to show it is in control as regional unrest spreads. Iran says the new systems will make the global Top 500 supercomputing listing, but it hasn't submitted a Linpack benchmark to the list organizers."

Comments

How about some real world metrics,

[joeflies]

like, how fast can it run StuxNet?

Would you like to play a game?

[DigiShaman]

I'm sure it's to process all the different permutations on how to bring about the 12th Imam.

SuperMicro

[Gumbercules!!]

Those are SuperMicro servers. I resell supermicro and as much as I love their low cost and good speed, the hardware failure rate is astronomical. They should fit in well with Iran's centrifuges. :-P