<div>right now theyre using it to ddos the danish "security" company called CSIS</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu">Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu</a></b> <<a href="mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu">Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu</a>> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:30:42 EDT, Jay Sulzberger said:<br>> This may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has been controlled not
<br>> by a government or megacorporation but by criminals. The question remains,<br>> now that they have the world's most powerful supercomputer system at their<br>> disposal, what are they going to do with it? And I wonder what the LINPACK
<br>> rating for Storm is?<br><br>Its LINPACK rating is probably relatively poor, as LINPACK doesn't quite fit<br>well in the "embarassingly parallel" category - if you split it across a million<br>nodes, you *do* have some cross-node communication that needs to happen - and
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