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The Opterons? We Bought Them at the CompUSA Tehran Going-out-of-Business Sale

in News on December 12, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

The ban on the export of U.S. computer equipment to Iran hasn’t stopped the Middle Eastern nation from building a supercomputer out of Advanced Micro Devices chips. The Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center claims to have assembled a machine with a theoretical peak performance of 860 gigaflops from 216 AMD Opteron processors. How did [...]