Peter Gutmann wrote: > 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? they could probably easily compute the GSM A5 Rainbow Table and listen to any GSM phone connection they want :)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8955054591690672567&hl=en or even more evil: they compute the rainbow table und sell it to the highest bidder... > And I wonder what the LINPACK > rating for Storm is? > > Peter. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Cryptography Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
