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Iran Claims Two New Supercomputers

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. This doesn't really surprise me... by sesshomaru · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Iran has a halfway decent computer industry, they even make computer games:

    http://www.questofpersia.com/main/index.html

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    "MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
  2. Ok Pretty Neat by Ancantus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok so I can understand why they would want to have a supercomputer or 2. They must have a lot of computational work being done (building nuclear weapons is pretty technically demanding stuff, so I have heard). But of all the reasons to have a supercomputer the summary states.

    But after the Stuxnet attack, Iran may be trying for an IT comeback via supercomputing

    Comeback via supercomputing? What does that even mean?

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    Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov
  3. How about some real world metrics, by joeflies · · Score: 5, Funny

    like, how fast can it run StuxNet?

  4. Would you like to play a game? by DigiShaman · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  5. SuperMicro by Gumbercules!! · · Score: 4, Funny

    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