Iran Claims Two New Supercomputers

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 24, 2011 @03:03AM from the good-thing-we-don't-export-crypto dept.

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."

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Re:This doesn't really surprise me... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-24 04:11 · Score: 0, Troll

do you think iranian games have a hot coffee mod?

Yes, they do! It causes the woman's burkha to fall off as images of Allah fucking a pig float around in the background.