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'US overstated Iran nuclear threat'

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    #152
    AngryHippie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


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    | Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts |
    | from the maybe-they-fell-off-the-back-of-a-really-big-truck dept.|
    | posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 11, @12:04 (Supercomputing) |
    | http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1611240 |
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    Stony Stevenson writes with the news that, despite a ban on US PC
    hardware, Iranian techs have built [0]an enormously powerful
    supercomputer from 216 AMD processors. The Linux-cluster machine has a
    'theoretical peak performance of 860 gig-flops'. "The disclosure, made in
    an undated posting on [the University of] 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."



    Delighted. Go Iran.


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    #153
    wes
    Registered Users Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    Its not even much of a super computer as well.

    Still shows how silly it is to try and ban commodity computer parts. There far too readily available these days to succeed.


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