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- thotpoizn, on 12/10/2007, -6/+80They were originally going to build it with a massive pile of PS3's, but pulled out at the last minute after they learned BattleToads would not be available... ;)
- vwvan, on 12/10/2007, -0/+63you don't need a supercomputer to make a nuke,
you need a 10 cm cube of plutonium.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer's published Notebook. - inactive, on 12/10/2007, -1/+55HOW DARE THEY USE TECHNOLOGY.
TO THE CAVES. - RudyGiulliani, on 12/10/2007, -10/+57THEY'RE MAKING NUKES
9/11 WWIII 9/11 - ScornForSega, on 12/10/2007, -0/+46American made hardware? That's odd, I remember all my AMD chips saying "Made In Germany".
- eric123abacus, on 12/10/2007, -26/+64If anyone shouldn't be allowed to have nuclear weapons its bush. iran isn't nearly as big a threat to world peace as the united states.
- chesscat, on 12/10/2007, -11/+44Let's hope they are using Windows Vista. That will set them back 10 years for sure.
- jknevitt, on 12/10/2007, -0/+30Yes, because supercomputer = nukes.
- zyl0x, on 12/10/2007, -4/+23Iran doesn't HAVE a ***** nuclear program! Like, holy *****. I was reading an issue of Maclean's this morning and the featured article was about whether or not the US should preemptively strike Iran before they get nukes. How ***** stupid..?
- jackdubious, on 12/10/2007, -4/+20ZOMG! DEY STEALING R MEGAHURTZ!!!!11!1!!!
- Kickboy, on 12/10/2007, -1/+17So are we going to put UN laws in place to prevent Iran from having a computer in the fear they can test nuclear weapons?
What ever happened to progress for the sake for progress?
I guess we really do live in a age of fear. - Fedaykin311, on 12/10/2007, -0/+16Technically, any half way modern computer (or calculator watch, mp3 player, etc.) has enough power to be used in the development of nuclear weapons programs. After all, the U.S. did it with 40's era computers, and most of the monotonous work was done with wetware (cyclotron girls).....
- Racerx52, on 12/10/2007, -0/+16When you first said 9/11 i was unsure, But that second one empowered me.
- MindTrigger, on 12/10/2007, -1/+16Thanks, douche bag. I was wondering who my 'First Block of the Day' would be. You win!
- inactive, on 12/10/2007, -11/+25Didn't our super trustworthy government say that the Nuke program was ended in 2003?
- inactive, on 12/10/2007, -0/+14"Preemptively" striking someone before being worth striking is a new way to say you're a paranoid lunatic with no regard to international law attacking anything you like.
"Let's beat that guy over there across the street, he *MAY* be a criminal".
Nope, you are. - israeligirl, on 12/10/2007, -8/+21While the Iranian computer can reach 860 GFLOPS (which is not a lot), it is still faster than the fastest supercomputer from 10 years ago. Check http://www.top500.org/system/ranking/2386 for a comparison with the CP-PACS/2048 supercomputer.
- slightlygifted, on 12/10/2007, -1/+14you would think these people's only goal in life is to build a nuclear bomb with the way every story related to iran somehow has to do with their nuclear program.
- yabbi, on 12/10/2007, -3/+15Just why are Iran not allowed Nukes ???
Because George "IQ of 30" Bush says?
NO NUCLEAR NATION has a legitimate reason for stopping another nation from developing these devices. THAT IS HYPOCRISY!!!
Every country should be allowed to defend themselves from the raping juggernaut. - Paroparo, on 12/10/2007, -0/+12It does seem a bit weird that a powerful computer is automatically linked to nukes. I'm sure the Manhattan Project guys would've liked to have one, but they managed just fine without one. The article doesn't even mention nuclear weapons, so bringing them up seems more than a little dodgy.
- CraigJ, on 12/10/2007, -0/+12A. Lame racist comment, surly you can do better.
B. Factually incorrect - Iranians (Persians to some) are not Arabs and do not ride camels. They don't even speak the same language. The terms camel jockey and rag/towel head apply to Arabs. If you are going to be a proper racist, at least get your slurs sorted. You wouldn't call an Irishman a wetback, after all. *
* the racial slurs used in this comment are for illustration purposes only, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster or of Digg.com. No camels, Iranians, Arabs, Irishman, Mexicans or towels were harmed in the writing of this comment. - spambrian, on 12/10/2007, -1/+11Based on the photos, those are Tyan rack-mount dual-processor AMD servers. This is off-the-shelf common hardware. They could have bought it anywhere outside of Iran or the US and had it trucked in. Making a supercomputer out of those is done using clustering in Linux ...
OH NOES! LINUX? IRAN USES PENGUIN POWER! Antarctica is in the axis of evil now :-o - Equalizer, on 12/10/2007, -12/+22Dude...."Camel Jockeys"?!?!?! Call a mass-murdering, terrorist bastard what you will but using things like "camel jockeys" really play into the hands of those who would minimize the threat and call the serious people "racists"...
Just Sayin' - SnowBladerX, on 12/10/2007, -1/+11So they are going to bomb the world with super computers?
The only mention to nuclear program is this one "Michael Izady, an adjunct professor of Middle Eastern and Western history at Pace University in New York, said via e-mail that "much of what Iran gets in computer parts and advanced devices are brought in – licitly or illicitly – from the UAE."Izady said that Iran is producing as many computers as it does automobiles – about 1.6 million per year – and that the computer and Internet industry is "ubiquitous" in that country. "Iran is advancing its computer and Internet knowledge and expertise much faster than its nuclear program," he wrote" - mtekk, on 12/10/2007, -1/+11Too bad the article explicitly states it's a Linux cluster.
- Frnnkdlxx, on 12/10/2007, -2/+12You should never trade humanity for patriotism. Just because someone thinks differently doesn't automatically make them Al Qaeda. Also... do you even know what Al Qaeda is? What religion they follow? What branch? How old a group they are? Who initiated them?
- inactive, on 12/10/2007, -0/+9Sorry for comment abuse, but I lived in Iran just until two years ago, and I could buy AS MANY Intel or AMD processors as I wanted from any computer store, as long as I payed for them. There are not many branded systems sold in Iran, just small companies which assemble a system for you according to what you ask for and if you can do it yourself, then just buy the parts.
Now most of these parts are purchased via proxies, but US sanctions have technically had no effect on availability of parts in Iran. The reason Amir Kabir U used AMDs was most probably due to cost. - diggerphelps, on 12/10/2007, -3/+12Spelling's too close to Infidel.
- WestonP, on 12/10/2007, -0/+9You don't need a supercomputer to make nukes, so mentioning such things is just propaganda and fear mongering. How much computing power did the USA have back in the early 40's when we developed the nuclear weapons that we used on Japan? My cell phone probably has more computing power!
- JasonCox, on 12/10/2007, -1/+10Bush: WMD is a terrorist organization and helps proliferates AMD's!
Reporter: Mr President, dont you mean 'AMD is a terrorist organization and helps proliferates WMD's'?
Bush: I'm the decider! - jspegele, on 12/10/2007, -1/+9Computers != nukes
- waspbr, on 12/10/2007, -0/+8"still strong enough to be used in Iran's nuclear program."
will the paranoia ever end? - Equalizer, on 12/10/2007, -6/+14Did they run out of Speak-and-Spells?
- spiralspirit, on 12/10/2007, -0/+8Well. computers have certainly changed quite a bit since ten years ago. It is not surprising that a relatively slow supercomputer by today's standards would be faster than what we could build a decade ago.
- Flamekebab, on 12/10/2007, -0/+7It's not ancient history, what I'm saying is that I don't see how some good work done in the past excuses atrocities now. If someone saved your life five years ago does it make it okay for them to physically abuse their family?
WW2 was a war the US joined in and did some good, not a war it STARTED. - TheFr00n, on 12/10/2007, -0/+7I know. But notice how the article makes no mention of nukes at all, but the blurb above does? Submitter is an asshat.
- inactive, on 12/10/2007, -3/+10ahh but were are dealing with sterotypical americans. They invented everything good.
- muncle, on 12/10/2007, -0/+7Maybe the people chipped in for a really sweet Counter Strike server.
- jspegele, on 12/10/2007, -1/+8OMFG you're college must be running a nuclear program. Lets bomb those liberal conservitive college bastards. BUSH FTW!!!
- Legopirate, on 12/10/2007, -2/+9why does super computer translate into nukes? A super computer can be used for many things, like playing chess...
I'd be more worried about the US super computers hooked up to giant ***** laser beams orbiting in space ;[ - inactive, on 12/11/2007, -0/+6Dude, if there was such a boycott I would have heard from my friends or read it somewhere. Also, Intel is considered an American corporation in Iran and apart from that most Iranians don't give a rat's ass what goes on in Israel, they're busy with their own lives.
- JapaneseEconomy, on 12/10/2007, -2/+8To bad you can't do anything about it. Not even your daughters voting for you! haha...
- inactive, on 12/10/2007, -1/+7Preemtively striking someone before being someone worth to strike = New way to say you're a paranoid lunatic like Hitler (screw Godwin's law) that attacks whatever you want.
- Myztry, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6Don't you just love the propaganda machine.... eventually it gathers it's own momentum
- jamend, on 12/10/2007, -0/+6Crysis
- illusion2269, on 12/10/2007, -0/+5No more than your average college dorm hall.
- yeti22, on 12/11/2007, -0/+5Performance of graphics chips is misleading because they are specialized processors. 318 GFLOPS represents how fast it can solve graphics problems. It will perform much worse on an arbitrary problem.
- Frnnkdlxx, on 12/10/2007, -6/+11Mass Murdering? The only ones who do that and document it are Americans.
- Guroom, on 12/10/2007, -0/+5Yup...but instead the ignorant diggers without even reading the article or any other just comment with stupid comments like 'lets bomb' or 'great target for a nuke'
so sad how ignorant even people that 'pretend' to read news are... - cruxop, on 12/10/2007, -1/+6Uh huh... yet this article doesn't mention nuclear program at all.
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