Iran Develops Its Most Powerful Supercomputer "Simorgh"

Iran Develops Its Most Powerful Supercomputer “Simorgh”

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.

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