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Boffins get 1,000,000 Linux Kernels running as virtual machines!

August 4th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Thats right, that wasn’t a typo. Some crazy boffins at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, have run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines out of which 20,000 can be run simultaneously! Why on earth would they attempt such feats?

Prehaps this XKCD may jog your memory

XKCD: Networking

Yep, just about:

The technique will allow them to effectively observe behaviour found in malicious botnets, or networks of infected machines that can operate on the scale of a million nodes.

Insane!

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