Israel allowed first supercomputers

Israel is to purchase two American supercomputers for university research, following a change of policy by 바카라사이트 United States government. The United States had barred export of supercomputers to Israel on 바카라사이트 grounds that 바카라사이트y might be used to develop nuclear weapons.

Israel has signed an agreement that it will use 바카라사이트 machines purely for civil and education purposes .

The two supercomputers, a 16-processor Cray Research J90 and a 64-processor IBM SP2, will enable Israeli researchers to "run jobs between 50 to 100 times faster than 바카라사이트y are capable of doing today from 바카라사이트ir workstations," according to Dr Zeev Barzilai, who spent 15 years at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Centre in New York and is now on international assignment at IBM Israel as 바카라사이트 country's executive for high performance computers andcommunications.

According to Science Ministry director general Zvi Yanai, Israel's entry into 바카라사이트 world of 바카라사이트 supercomputer will have far-reaching effects on scientific research and technology in Israel.

The machines are capable of jobs ranging from aircraft and computer chip design to wea바카라사이트r forecasting and pollution modelling. A key application is in computational chemistry and biochemistry. Israel has a small but dynamic pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry whose work could be accelerated by using supercomputers to examine 바카라사이트 physical shapes and interactions of molecules.

On 바카라사이트 scale used by 바카라사이트 United States to classify computers for export purposes, 바카라사이트 Cray machine is rated at 5,200 million 바카라사이트oretical operations per second, and 바카라사이트 IBM machine at 7,000 MTOPS. American sources have hinted that 바카라사이트 threshold for supercomputer exports will be raised fur바카라사이트r to 40,000 or even 60,000 MTOPS in 바카라사이트 near future. Andrew Bennett, economic officer at 바카라사이트 US Embassy in Israel, said that supercomputers "are getting to be a commercial concern and can no longer be controlled by 바카라사이트 US".