Simorgh Supercomputer 

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• Iran has launched its Supercomputer, and they named it ‘Simorgh’. The supercomputer Simorgh is 100 times more quick and powerful than the previous Supercomputer of Iran. 

• Simorgh is developed by Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT). At present, the Iranian supercomputer Simorgh is at the High-Performance Computing Research Centre of Iran. 

• The Supercomputer has been named after the phoenix-like bird called the Simurgh. 

• The performance capacity of the simorgh Supercomputer is 0.56 petaflops. It is to reach 1 petaflop in two months. In its subsequent levels, it is to reach a speed of 10 petaflops.