Sweet, imagine the fuzzing power behind that thing :) I wonder if he/she/it
will let us purchase a time slice of that badboy cluster :)
JS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-bounces_at_lists.grok.org.uk
> [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces_at_lists.grok.org.uk] On Behalf
> Of Jay Sulzberger
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 9:31 AM
> To: full-disclosure_at_lists.grok.org.uk
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] World's most powerful
> supercomputer goes online(fwd)
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:23:57 +1200
> From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001_at_cs.auckland.ac.nz>
> To: cryptography_at_metzdowd.com
> Subject: World's most powerful supercomputer goes online
>
> This doesn't seem to have received much attention, but the
> world's most
> powerful supercomputer entered operation recently.
> Comprising between 1 and
> 10 million CPUs (depending on whose estimates you believe),
> the Storm botnet
> easily outperforms the currently top-ranked system,
> BlueGene/L, with a mere
> 128K CPU cores. Using the figures from Valve's online survey,
> http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html, for which
> the typical machine
> has a 2.3 - 3.3 GHz single core CPU with about 1GB of RAM,
> the Storm cluster
> has the equivalent of 1-10M (approximately) 2.8 GHz P4s
> with 1-10 petabytes of
> RAM (BlueGene/L has a paltry 32 terabytes). In fact this
> composite system has
> better hardware resources than what's listed at
> http://www.top500.org for the
> entire world's top 10 supercomputers:
>
> BlueGene/L: 128K CPUs, 32TB
> Jaguar: 22K CPUs, 46TB
> Red Storm: 26K CPUs, 40TB
> BGW: 40K CPUs, 10TB
> New York Blue: 37K CPUs, 18TB
> ASC Purple: 12K CPUs, 49TB
> eServer Blue Gene: ?
> Abe: 10K CPUs, 10TB
> MareNostrum: 10K CPUs, 20GB
> HLRB-II: 10K CPUs, 39GB
>
> This may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has
> been controlled not
> by a government or megacorporation but by criminals. The
> question remains,
> now that they have the world's most powerful supercomputer
> system at their
> disposal, what are they going to do with it? And I wonder
> what the LINPACK
> rating for Storm is?
>
> Peter.
>
>
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