____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Wednesday 12 December 2007 22:13 : \____
> 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:
>
> <Quote>
> 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.
> </Quote>
>
> 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.
http://technocrat.net/d/2007/12/12/31494
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