Re: [Full-disclosure] World's most powerful supercomputer goes online(fwd)

["J. M. Seitz" <jms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 

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> supercomputer goes online(fwd)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>   Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:23:57 +1200
>   From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   To: cryptography@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>   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.
> 
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