On Dec 11, 8:09 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Iranian scientists develop country's most powerful supercomputer
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> | 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..
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> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/66655,iranian-scientists-develop-countr...
>From the article:
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The Iranian system will be used for weather forecasting and
meteorological research. Iranian scientists developed software for
systems management and monitoring, but use a medium scale computer
model called MM5 for creating atmospheric simulations and weather
forecasts. MM5 is freely available and supported by a division of the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in the U.S. Other software
includes the Advanced Regional Prediction System that was initially
developed at the University of Oklahoma, under a program of the
National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center.
Besides weather forecasting, supercomputers are used in the oil and
gas industry, drug making, computer assisted design and the
aerodynamics industry, as well as in scientific research. The Iranian
research center built the country's first supercomputer in 2001.
Another supercomputer was built in 2003 for processing satellite
images for the Iranian Space Agency.
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This journalist must have been reading the list of applications from
the Iranians' brochure. Never mentioned "plutonium implosion device"
or "radiative transfer of x-rays under thermonuclear conditions".
Never mentioned the word "bomb", either.
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