Question: Cosider the following statements:
(1) Iran has developed its most powerful Supercomputer Simorgh.
(2) Simorgh is developed indigenously by Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology.
Of the above correct statement/s is/are:
(a) Only 1
(b) Only 2
(c) Both 1&2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer: (c)
Related facts:
- Iran has unveiled a new supercomputer named ‘Simorgh’, which is 100 times more powerful than the previous supercomputer of the country to 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 petaflop in two months.
- The supercomputer will be used for artificial intelligence workloads, traffic and weather data, and image processing.
Links:
https://www.byscoop.com/iran-develops-its-most-powerful-supercomputer-simorgh/