right now theyre using it to ddos the danish "security" company called CSIS
On 8/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).... > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > > -- smile tomorrow will be worse
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