Re: World's most powerful supercomputer goes online (fwd)

[poo <skodliv () gmail com>]

right now theyre using it to ddos the danish "security" company called CSIS


On 8/31/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:30:42 EDT, Jay Sulzberger said:
> >   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?
>
> Its LINPACK rating is probably relatively poor, as LINPACK doesn't quite
> fit
> well in the "embarassingly parallel" category - if you split it across a
> million
> nodes, you *do* have some cross-node communication that needs to happen -
> and
> preferably *fast* (we're talking the kind of fast where they buy
> Infiniband
> or Myrinet gear because gigabit ethernet isn't fast enough)....
>
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