Another potential use for the Storm worm... I can't imagine this would be why
it's being assembled since there's no money in it, but consider the prospect
of x million machines cycling from idle to full load once a minute. If the
power swing in doing this is (for example) 100 watts per PC then eve
At 11:23 PM 8/30/2007, Peter Gutmann wrote:
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
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 14:48:31 +0200 plus or minus some time Guus Sliepen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Experience with tinc (a VPN daemon with peer-to-peer like architecture,
> which replicates certain information to all daemons in a single VPN),
> showed that even in a network with only 20 nodes, it
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 03:46:45PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> I feel I should add a followup to the earlier post, this was implied by the
> rhetorical question about what the LINPACK performance of a botnet is, but
> I'll make it explicit here:
>
> The standard benchmark for supercomputers is
I feel I should add a followup to the earlier post, this was implied by the
rhetorical question about what the LINPACK performance of a botnet is, but
I'll make it explicit here:
The standard benchmark for supercomputers is the LINPACK linear-algebra
mathematical benchmark. Now in practice the LI
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>* Peter Gutmann:
>> 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
* Peter Gutmann:
> 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 s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Worm
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:23:57PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> 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
That's quite an interesting thing to ponder, but don't forget that only
some supercomputer applications (like crypto!) can be handled well by this
sort of highly distributed system. There is more to most "real
supercomputers" than just MHz times number of CPUs - there is also very
high-speed d
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
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:23:57PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> 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 eq
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 me
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