The Storm zombie network has more capacity for calculating the 10 most powerful supercomputers worldwide.
Source: DiarioTI
The professor of computer science Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland in New Zealand, believes that the network of zombie computers controlled by the network responsible for the Storm has more computing capacity that the 10 largest supercomputers in the world as a whole.
In a report entitled "The most powerful supercomputer in the world is online," Guttman is based on estimates made by experts in IT security, according to the Storm network which consists of 1 to 10 million infected computers.
The Red Storm is a P2P network without a central command visible. This factor has made it very difficult to clean. The network grows inexorably because their authors distribute large volumes of spam, including the Storm worm.
While the Storm network has a maximum of 10 million processors, the IBM supercomputer, Blue Gene / L, which heads the Top 500 list, "only" has 128,000 processors. The superiority of memory is prodigious Storm: 1 10 petabytes, considering that each of the PC is about 1 GB RAM, 32 terabytes against the world's largest supercomputer.
The computer security expert Lawrence Baldwin of myNetWatchman.com, told the Washington Post published that it is noteworthy that the authorities do not devote more resources to identify those responsible for the zombie network. Baldwin believes that this lack may be because those who control the network have refrained from carrying out spectacular attacks, but have been several large-scale exercises. According to some sources, it would be "precursors exercises great attack."
