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Menyusul heboh Perang Cyber antar negara, ada selentingan berita beberapa hari yang lalu bahwa Iran telah membangun suatu cluster Linux yang terdiri dari 216 processor AMD Opteron. Dilaporkan, cluster Linux ini memiliki kecepatan 860 Giga-Flops (1 GF = 1 Milyar perhitungan per detik)

Kecepatan super-computer Iran ini memang masih kalah jauh dibandingkan dengan yang dimiliki oleh Amerika (IBM BlueGene/L-System berkecepatan 478.2 Tera-Flops, di mana 1 TF = 1 Trilyun perhitungan per detik), namun yang menjadikannya menarik adalah:

IRAN DI EMBARGO DARI PRODUK² ELEKTRONIK AMERIKA!

Yang menjadi pertanyaan, dari mana kah Iran mendapatkan ratusan processor AMD Opteron untuk membangun super-computer?...

Apakah motivasi Iran dalam membangun super-computer tersebut?

Apakah Iran akan ikut terjun dalam Perang Cyber antar negara yg mulai marak???

Komentar salah seorang profesor dari Pace University menambah suatu fakta yg cukup menarik tentang Iran: "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"

Disarikan dari InformationWeek

Tambahan instropeksi:

Iran yg kena embargo produk elektronik/komputer saja bisa membuat super-computer, kenapa Indonesia yg tidak kena embargo "tidak mampu" membuat super-computer serupa? Mana neh generasi cyber Indonesia??


Sumber: InformationWeek
Iranian Scientists Develop Country's Most Powerful Supercomputer

The system reportedly uses 216 AMD microprocessors. AMD said it has never authorized any product shipments to Iran, a country to which U.S. computer exports are prohibited.

Iranian scientists claim to have used 216 microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) to build the country's most powerful supercomputer, despite a ban on the export of U.S. computer equipment to the Middle Eastern nation.

Scientists at the Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center at the country's Amirkabir University of Technology said they used a Linux-cluster architecture in building the system of Opteron processors. The supercomputer has a theoretical peak performance of 860 giga-flops, the posting said. A giga-flop is a billion calculations per second.

The disclosure, made in an undated posting on Amirkabir's Web site, brought an immediate response Monday from AMD, which said it has never authorized shipments of products either directly or indirectly to Iran or any other embargoed country.

"AMD fully complies with all United States export control laws, and all authorized distributors of AMD products have contractually committed to AMD that they will do the same with respect to their sales and shipments of AMD products," the company said. "Any shipment of AMD products to Iran by any authorized distributor of AMD would be a breach of the specific provisions of their contracts with AMD."

Enforcement of export bans is handled through the Office of Foreign Asset Control, which is part of the U.S. Treasury Department. Officials were unavailable for comment.

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.

The Iranian supercomputer falls far behind the world's fastest computers. In November, the BlueGene/L System, jointly developed byIBM (NYSE: IBM) and the U.S. Department of Energy was ranked No. 1 in the world with a benchmark performance of 478.2 teraflops. A teraflop equals a trillion calculations per second.

-- Antone Gonsalves (InformationWeek)

[natane]

Indonesia bisa kok
buktinya banyak rakitan2

Iran bagus ipteknya
sharing2 donk ke sesama negara islam
jgn pelit2lah

[girl in yukata]

nyuwun ilmu dungs

pan kemaren dah mampir2 ke UI

 

[arumaniezt]

Iran hebat ya...
Indonesia harus berguru ma Iran nih kaya'nya...  :

[R a e]

Yang menjadi pertanyaan, dari mana kah Iran mendapatkan ratusan processor AMD Opteron untuk membangun super-computer?...

sama dengan pertanyaan:

" darimanakah senjata-senjata M16 dan peralatan perang buatan Amerika yang dipakai pejuang-pejuang Iran dimasa perang teluk melawan Irak dan Saddam Huseinnya,padahal waktu itu AS sangat memusuhi  Iran dan mendukung Irak?

[iqs]

Yang menjadi pertanyaan, dari mana kah Iran mendapatkan ratusan processor AMD Opteron untuk membangun super-computer?...

sama dengan pertanyaan:

" darimanakah senjata-senjata M16 dan peralatan perang buatan Amerika yang dipakai pejuang-pejuang Iran dimasa perang teluk melawan Irak dan Saddam Huseinnya,padahal waktu itu AS sangat memusuhi  Iran dan mendukung Irak?

Dari mana ya? Black Market? Seludupan? Atau pake DHL

[R a e]

Yang menjadi pertanyaan, dari mana kah Iran mendapatkan ratusan processor AMD Opteron untuk membangun super-computer?...

sama dengan pertanyaan:

" darimanakah senjata-senjata M16 dan peralatan perang buatan Amerika yang dipakai pejuang-pejuang Iran dimasa perang teluk melawan Irak dan Saddam Huseinnya,padahal waktu itu AS sangat memusuhi  Iran dan mendukung Irak?

Dari mana ya? Black Market? Seludupan? Atau pake DHL

kayaknya..mirip kejadian Iran Gate yg melibatkan Ronald Reagen. :

[detasemen_88]

IRAN punya modal yg kuat untuk itu ........salut

[iqs]

Yang menjadi pertanyaan, dari mana kah Iran mendapatkan ratusan processor AMD Opteron untuk membangun super-computer?...

sama dengan pertanyaan:

" darimanakah senjata-senjata M16 dan peralatan perang buatan Amerika yang dipakai pejuang-pejuang Iran dimasa perang teluk melawan Irak dan Saddam Huseinnya,padahal waktu itu AS sangat memusuhi  Iran dan mendukung Irak?

Dari mana ya? Black Market? Seludupan? Atau pake DHL

kayaknya..mirip kejadian Iran Gate yg melibatkan Ronald Reagen. :

Iran Gate? gak tahu ceritanya... . tahunya Water Gate ama Zipper Gatenya Clinton :

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Udah pada nonton Syriana??

btw, topik ini sebenarnya bermaksud "memancing" dengan menitikberatkan ke aspek "instropeksi", aku quote di sini:

Tambahan instropeksi:

Iran yg kena embargo produk elektronik/komputer saja bisa membuat super-computer, kenapa Indonesia yg tidak kena embargo "tidak mampu" membuat super-computer serupa? Mana neh generasi cyber Indonesia??

Tanya kenapa??? :