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March 7th, 2011, 12:03 AM
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian researchers managed to build a high-capacity supercomputer capable of processing 34bln operations per second with a speed more than 40 gigabytes.
Officials at Tehran's Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), which will display the computing machine, said that the Iranian supercomputer is capable of processing data and carrying out computations in an array of fields.
High-capacity supercomputers are viewed as strategic products and the Iranian computational device will rank amongst the world's first 500, the report said.
Supercomputers, primarily introduced in the 1960s, are at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.
The machines were introduced in Iran around 10 years by the AUT. Iranian engineers and technicians have been making efforts to increase the computational capacities of the devices ever since.
Supercomputers are used for intensive calculation tasks such as problems involving physics, weather forecast, climate research, molecular modeling, simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels, nuclear research and computations in nanotechnology among others.
Iran's astonishing scientific growth in recent years has brought it more than a one-percent share of the world's scientific research production.
Chancellor of Tehran University Farhad Rahbar made the remarks in December, adding that the growth rate in Iran's scientific research has been 11 times more than the world's average growth rate.
"Scientific production growth rate in Iran has reached 70 percent over the past 15 years," he went on to say.
http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8911190583
Officials at Tehran's Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), which will display the computing machine, said that the Iranian supercomputer is capable of processing data and carrying out computations in an array of fields.
High-capacity supercomputers are viewed as strategic products and the Iranian computational device will rank amongst the world's first 500, the report said.
Supercomputers, primarily introduced in the 1960s, are at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.
The machines were introduced in Iran around 10 years by the AUT. Iranian engineers and technicians have been making efforts to increase the computational capacities of the devices ever since.
Supercomputers are used for intensive calculation tasks such as problems involving physics, weather forecast, climate research, molecular modeling, simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels, nuclear research and computations in nanotechnology among others.
Iran's astonishing scientific growth in recent years has brought it more than a one-percent share of the world's scientific research production.
Chancellor of Tehran University Farhad Rahbar made the remarks in December, adding that the growth rate in Iran's scientific research has been 11 times more than the world's average growth rate.
"Scientific production growth rate in Iran has reached 70 percent over the past 15 years," he went on to say.
http://english.farsnews.net/newstext.php?nn=8911190583