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Iran will unveil the domestically made supercomputer named "ARA", which has been made mostly for security purposes, Mehr news agency reported.

The supercomputer will be unveiled in the early December, the director of Saman Communication Development Holding Company, Abbas Jam said.

The supercomputer has been created entirely by Iranian scientists in Iran's Science and Technology Park in Mazandaran province.

According to Abbas Jam, the supercomputer has already managed to identify security holes in some 6,000 UK and Israeli websites.

"ARA" supercomputer is able not only to identify and reveal security holes in websites, but also gain access to restricted data, according to Jam.

Domestically, the supercomputer will be used to identify the holes and vulnerabilities in local scientific and educational websites, so they could be fixed as soon as possible.

In February 2012, Iran's Vice President on science and technology Nasrin Soltanzadeh said that Iran will present nine domestically made supercomputers by late of this year (March 21).

"Nine new supercomputers will be presented, and added to the National Grid," she said.

It is planned to establish a National Grid network consisting of 11 supercomputers in total in Iran.

Last year the country has already unveiled two domestically-designed and manufactured supercomputers in Tehran's Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), and Esfahan University of Technology.

Iran's first supercomputer was introduced about nine years ago with a power of 860 billion operations per second by AUT. Iranian engineers and technicians have been making efforts to increase the computational capacities of the devices ever since.

Supercomputers are computers that are at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.

They are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems involving quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling, physical simulations (such as simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels, etc.), and nuclear research.