Sandia computer scientists successfully boot one million Linux
kernels as virtual machines LIVERMORE, Calif. - Computer
scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif.,
have for the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to
run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines.
(Media-Newswire.com) - LIVERMORE, Calif. — Computer scientists
at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., have for
the first time successfully demonstrated the ability to run more
than a 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 hi