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Detailed explanation-1: -The Simorgh supercomputer was created by Iranian scientists at the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran. Simorgh supercomputer is named after a mythical Persian bird. Simorgh supercomputer was built with 1 trillion rials (approximately $4.5 million) in funding.

Detailed explanation-2: -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’.

Detailed explanation-3: -The performance capacity of the simorgh Supercomputer is 0.56 petaflops. It is to reach 1 petaflops in two months. In its subsequent levels it is to reach to speed of 10 petaflops. It comprises of 42 racks in an area of 250 square metres.

Detailed explanation-4: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Simorgh. Iran has unveiled a supercomputer – its strongest to date – developed domestically by Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT). The supercomputer is named Simorgh after a mythical Persian bird.