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Sandia to boot behemoth botnet
Researchers use supercomputer to replicate how botnets operate
Starting in October, a huge botnet will be run not by nefarious underground figures but by the Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories. The lab's Thunderbird supercomputer will periodically run a million virtual machines all at once, all with botnet client software. By setting this large network of systems into operation, the researchers, Ron Minnich and Don Rudish, hope to better understand how botnets operate.
"If you want to take a look at what is really threatening the Internet, we have to talk about the scale of the network we are working with," Rudish said. "One million gets us pretty close to understanding ...
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