Iran Develops Its Most Powerful Supercomputer “Simorgh”
- Iran has unveiled a new supercomputer named ‘Simorgh’, which is 100 times more powerful than previous supercomputer of the country till date.
- The supercomputer has been developed indigenously by Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT).
- It has been named after a mythical Phoenix-like bird ‘Simurgh’.
- Currently, Simorgh has a performance capacity of 0.56 petaflops,
- However the country claims this capacity to reach one petaflops in two months.
- The supercomputer will be used for artificial intelligence workloads, traffic and weather data, and image processing.