Research & Facilities
Isfahan University of Technology was appointed as a Center of Excellence by Iran's Ministry of Science and Technology in the fields of "Nano Technology in Environment", "Steel Technology", "Algebra Science", "Sensor and Green Chemistry", "Soil & Water Pollution" and "Oil-seed Crops". This appointment is based on national standing based on research achievements and invested funding in the mentioned topics.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled a supercomputer in this university in 2011, thus making Iran one of the world’s owners of the best supercomputers. The supercomputer made by Isfahan University of Technology scientists is among the 500 best ones in the world.This supercomputer has calculation ability of 34000 billion operations per second and its Graphics Processing Units (GPU) are able to do more than 32 billion operations per 100 seconds.
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