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Researchers Try to Stalk Botnets Used by Hackers
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| The Sandia computer, which the researchers have named MegaTux, in a reference
| to Tux, the penguin character that is the official mascot of the Linux
| operating system, is an example of a new kind of computational science, in
| which computers are used to simulate scientific instruments that were once
| used in physical world laboratories. For example, Microsoft researchers have
| created a vast visualization database they call the world wide telescope.
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| The Dell Thunderbird supercomputer used for the Sandia project has 4,480
| Intel microprocessors, far fewer than the million operating systems the
| researchers sought to simulate. But they used “virtual machine” software
| technology to get each microprocessor to simultaneously run many instances of
| a Linux-based component called a kernel — a basic component of an operating
| system that manages communications between software and hardware.
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| Because most botnets are written for the Windows operating system, the
| researchers are planning to use an open source program called Wine, making it
| possible to run Windows-based programs without actually having the complete
| Windows operating system. They said they were not using Windows itself
| because of the licensing costs of purchasing one million copies of Windows.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28comp.html?_r=1
Sandia Computer Scientists Boot One Million Linux Kernels as Virtual Machines
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| Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif.,
| have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more
| than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines.
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http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/systems/Sandia-Computer-Scientists-Boot-One-Million-Linux-Kernels-as-Virtual-Machines-51891292.html
Related:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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