World's most powerful supercomputer goes online

[Daniel Schroeder]

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 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?  
they could probably easily compute the GSM A5 Rainbow Table and listen
to any GSM phone connection they want :)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8955054591690672567&hl=en

or even more evil: they compute the rainbow table und sell it to the
highest bidder...

> And I wonder what the LINPACK 
> rating for Storm is?
>
> Peter.
>
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