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Scientists from the Iranian research centre of high-efficiency calculations (Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center) have informed that at their order there is a supercomputer constructed on the basis of 216 AMD Opteron processors and possessing peak productivity 860 gigaflops.
It is necessary to notice, that to records of productivity the Iranian system it is far: supercomputer IBM Blue Gene/L which is established in Livermorsky national laboratory of a name of Lawrence and in the lead in the list of the most powerful supercomputers of the world of Torahs-500, possesses speed in 478,2 TFLOPS. Right after in the Network representatives of company AMD have declared occurrences of this information, that according to an official interdiction for export of production to Iran, imposed by the authorities of the United States, deliveries of processors AMD in the given region were not carried out. AMD also excludes possibility of deliveries of processors through company partners as all of them conclude with the manufacturer the contract on observance of the established restrictions on production import in the certain countries of the world, informs InformationWeek.
The Iranian scientists assert, that the supercomputer is planned to use for drawing up of weather forecasts and meteorological researches. Management of system and monitoring of its condition is carried out by means of the software created by the Iranian experts, and to modelling of weather conditions is applied specialised free ON MM5, created in the National research centre on studying atmospheres (USA). Besides, researchers apply program Advanced Regional Prediction System developed at Oklahomsky university (USA news).
Let's add, that the first supercomputer has been created in Iran in 2001. The second system has appeared in the country in 2003 for processing of satellite pictures for needs of the Iranian space agency.
Let's add, that the first supercomputer has been created in Iran in 2001. The second system has appeared in the country in 2003 for processing of satellite pictures for needs of the Iranian space agency. news location: IT business world news, today, news now. Articles is about: computer news of the world. News sorce: compulenta.ru |