[Full-disclosure] World's most powerful supercomputer goes online (fwd)
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skodliv at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 01:11:32 BST 2007
right now theyre using it to ddos the danish "security" company called CSIS
On 8/31/07, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> 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)....
>
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