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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Jay Sulzberger > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 9:31 AM > To: [email protected] > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Cryptography Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
