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MegaTux to run 1 million copies on Wine to simulate the Internet

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The Dell Thunderbird supercomputer, named MegaTux, has 4,480 Intel microprocessors running Linux virtual machines with Wine, making it possible to run 1 million copies of a Windows environment without paying licensing fees to Microsoft.

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., are creating what is in effect a vast digital petri dish able to hold one million operating systems at once in an effort to study the behavior of rogue programs known as botnets.

Botnets are used extensively by malicious computer hackers to steal computing power from Internet-connected computers. The hackers harness the stolen resources into a scattered but powerful computer that can be used to send spam, execute phishing scams or steal digital information. These remote-controlled “distributed computers” are difficult to observe and track.

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Comments (10)

Steven_Rosenber ·
It's about botnet simulation ... had to go to the link to figure that one out.

Is there such a thing as too much WINE?
TxtEdMacs ·
Quoting:Is there such a thing as too much WINE?
Yes, if and only if you release your whine before its time.

YBT
tracyanne ·
Quoting:Is there such a thing as too much WINE?


Only if it's cheap, and if it's not, then only if you need to be up early.
chalbersma ·
Wine is good. Whiskey is better.
softwarejanitor ·
@chalbersma Actually I think the lyrics you are looking for are "Wine is fine but Whiskey's quicker".

Whiskey might be a good name for an open source project... :-)
chalbersma ·
@softwarejanitor Not a bad Idea. I'd find a way to use it just for the name.
tuxchick ·
RotGut Repo, the finest Linux packages that can fit in a shopping cart.
ABCC ·
If a program is called Whiskey someone is bound to fork it into a bettter version called Whisky. Either way I'm looking forward to the day Whisk[e]y is free as in beer!
nicsmr ·
@softwarejanitor

I'm sorry to burst your bubble but Whiskey or Whisky is already used as the name for a proprietary product used by us in conjunction with with software monitoring rain fall and rain water flow. Stuff municipalities like to know for planning sewer and stormwater systems.

My section (the vendor app maintenance section) takes care of it. It get's a lot of PUN type of play here.

Cheers...
softwarejanitor ·
@nicsmr Ah... figures.

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