Iran Tries to Hide AMD Supercomputer
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Just a few days after exposing that Iran has built an AMD-based supercomputer, they’re now trying to cover up this little fact:
“The Iranian computing research center that says it built a supercomputer with Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Opteron processors has removed from its Web site photographs showing a possible link to the United Arab Emirates as a source of the chips. But something that can’t be removed so easily are longstanding U.S. concerns about the UAE being a conduit for sending technology to Iran and other banned countries.
U.S. antiterrorism trade restrictions bar the sale of technology developed here to Iran. But as Computerworld reported last week, the Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center (IHPCRC) claims on its Web site that it has assembled a clustered system with 216 Opteron processing cores for use in weather forecasting and meteorological research. On another part of its site, the Tehran-based IHPCRC had posted a photo gallery that included snapshots of what appeared to be staff members working on the servers and racks of the supercomputer.”
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6 Comments
Bobzilla
December 14th, 2007
at 8:22pm
Hmmm…. I fail to see what this article has to do with Linux Fanatics. This is an off-topic article, end of discussion.
Tom Conger
December 15th, 2007
at 10:05am
You can’t stop countries like Iran from obtaining material like cpu chips, you can only slow it down. Too much blackmarket activity to allow a ban to work. The ban really only impacts the average citizen in Iran, not the govenment. Now where they learned how to assemble them into a supercomputer is a different story. That is what we should be more concerned about.
Peter Braun
December 15th, 2007
at 10:06pm
I do not know what planet Tom Conger is living on. Clustering using a network is easy and the software is freely available. see here http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/
Dennis
December 16th, 2007
at 11:11am
I guess this explains why AMD is building a new facility there!
Keith
January 4th, 2008
at 12:52am
Is there a reason why this is in every single IT Professionals newsletter since Dec. 13th? Are we mixing political subjects now with a newsletter about Technology? Let’s be professional and remember what the newsletter is about and get back to articles about Software.
Matt Hartley
January 4th, 2008
at 2:05am
Keith: What has happened is LinFan content has replaced ITP in the emailing newsletter. It is a format bug, Pirillo has been alerted.
And yea, I am sick of it as well. ;)