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Much to Metin’s surprise, when he’d suggested accessing the SVR supercomputer at the Yildiz Technopark, General Firat had made it happen within minutes.
“It is time we stop fooling around with Greece,” Firat had declared. “NATO is no threat; we know how to manage them. Some argue that it is the Americans we must learn to manage now. They are wrong. It is they who must learn to survive us.”
The SVR might not be anywhere near the power of the TOP500 supercomputers; in fact, it was barely a tenth as powerful as the five-hundredth ranked machine. Despite being five years older, it was still over a thousand times faster than even his overclocked desktop—terraflops instead of gigaflops of speed.
Metin had asked Onur for help. He would have preferred to own this triumph himself, but there
