Computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux kernels as virtual machines

“The achievement will allow cyber security researchers to more
effectively observe behavior found in malicious botnets, or
networks of infected machines that can operate on the scale of a
million nodes. Botnets, said Sandia’s Ron Minnich, are often
difficult to analyze since they are geographically spread all over
the world.

“Sandia scientists used virtual machine (VM) technology and the
power of its Thunderbird supercomputing cluster for the
demonstration.

“Running a high volume of VMs on one supercomputer — at a
similar scale as a botnet — would allow cyber researchers to
watch how botnets work and explore ways to stop them in their
tracks. “We can get control at a level we never had before,” said
Minnich.”

Complete
Story