* 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 system, BlueGene/L, with a mere 128K CPU cores.
It's a bit unfair to compare those numbers with single-image systems or tightly-coupled clusters. Grids are the more apt comparison. > This may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has been > controlled not by a government or megacorporation but by criminals. Doubt it. If I recall the confirmed Phatbot numbers correctly, they where pretty substantial, too, especially for that time. And this was the first time when I came across that "botnets are grids plus scalability and security" joke. Some of the HTTP-based botnets advertised pretty high infection numbers, too, but such claims are difficult to verify. On the other hand, LINPACK numbers for a botnet would likely be much lower than what is suggested by the raw CPU count. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]