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| Iran evades scanctions - builds AMD based supercomputer |
| 2007-12-11 |
| Iranian scientists claim to have used 216 microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices to build the country's most powerful supercomputer, despite a ban on the export of U.S. computer equipment to the Middle Eastern nation.. Scientists at the Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center at the country's Amirkabir University of Technology said they used a Linux-cluster architecture in building the system of Opteron processors. The supercomputer has a theoretical peak performance of 860 giga-flops, the posting said. A giga-flop is a billion calculations per second. The disclosure, made in an undated posting on 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. "AMD fully complies with all United States export control laws, and all authorized distributors of AMD products have contractually committed to AMD that they will do the same with respect to their sales and shipments of AMD products," the company said. "Any shipment of AMD products to Iran by any authorized distributor of AMD would be a breach of the specific provisions of their contracts with AMD." |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #6 Infidel Inside Yes, yes I did. I Lol'd. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-12-11 21:35 |
| #5 Oh, and I wonder if they realize some of the key software for Beowulf clustering was developed in Israel... The Infidel Inside sticker on the side of the box should tip them off. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-12-11 16:31 |
| #4 Don't call our help line. |
| Posted by: AMD Tech Support 2007-12-11 16:17 |
| #3 Pssssh, Rob, don't tell! Which suggests and upgrade is due. Specifically for certain code pages. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-12-11 14:54 |
| #2 Oh, boy. They built a Beowulf cluster. Big deal. Some of the effects for "Titanic" were rendered on a Beowulf cluster, and industry's been using them for years. The only accomplishment here is getting around the export controls. Oh, and I wonder if they realize some of the key software for Beowulf clustering was developed in Israel... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-12-11 13:09 |
| #1 You can go online and order computer parts in bulk you will never know of their ultimate destination. A embargo like this does work. These are commodity items. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-12-11 12:58 |