Re: You are invited to give a name to a super(PC)computer

Derek wrote:
Lin Chung wrote:
Trevor Best wrote:
Lin Chung wrote:
http://www.physorg.com/news102087207.html
Win £250 (Yeah, no misprint. Swine!). Dead line is 2007-09-15.
is it as fast as Tai Sung?
What's Tai Sung? I couldn't find any reference to it. <g>
Sounds like the boxer who bites ears to me :-) the current number one(
different sort of animal) is listed as BlueGene/L
http://www.llnl.gov/pao/news/news_releases/2007/NR-07-06-09.html
interesting tho 64 parallel processors doesn't sound like an inexpensive
option for normal use but a terrific cost saving if you need that that
sort of brute force for say rendering Shrek 4?



Yes, it's interesting. It looks like a veritable beast to build at home!
The comments at the bottom suggest I'm not alone. Now if only the details
are revealed and the software is made open-sourced... Unlikely though as it
is funded by the national security agency.

On the other hand, a powerful machine like this can be used by the criminal
gangs to find -- by brute force strategies, going systematically,
sequentially the prime numbers to find a fit -- the private keys in the
commonly used encryption schemes, 1024-bits notwithstanding. I'm not naive
to think that is not what the governments are doing with the IBM
supercomputers; they say they are for particle physics, probing molecular
structures for new drugs, and such high minded pursuits. Meanwhile, all the
encrypted messages, both civil and military, thought to be uncrackable are
now open to them in days, hours, or minutes, if not in seconds. The handful
of Blue Gene-P's (P has overtaken L now) have been 'assigned' to national
labs (not open to the public, naturally) in the USA, one to the Max Planck
Institute, and another one to the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire.

The bottom line is that your encryption is never safe; Big Brother is
watching you.

--
Lin Chung.
[Paste ntlworld over the Water Margin to send a private e-mail.]






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