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NIST Studies Virus, DDoS Effect On Grids
Ben writes "Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have launched a new campaign to study the effect of viruses and denial of services attacks on grid computing systems. Specifically, they're developing models to establish vulnerability and find ways of fixing problems. But a grid's very strength -- its distibuted nature -- makes it vulnerable, indeed, they're finding. (Via Science Blog)"
Hmm, I've never seen any serious computing grids that are open to outside networks or that run windows.
I think its common wisdom to isolate grids from the internet and other potentially hostile networks.
But a grid's very strength -- its distibuted nature -- makes it vulnerable, indeed, they're finding.
Ewwww, awkward!
Better: But the grid's very strength, its distributed nature, makes it more vulnerable to these types of attacks.
Or: However, they're finding the grid's strength -- its distributed nature -- makes it vulnerable.
This is one of those times dramatizing a sentence makes it worse.
Cue in jokes about studying the slashdot effect on grid computer...
But seriously, what can simulate a DDoS more accurately than a bazillion slashdotters trying to RTFA and get the slashdot fix?
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2004 _0730.htm#tackling
Does anyone know anything about the scienceblog.com site? It doesnt seem very reputable considering all the ads and the very obvious SEO technquies (look for the hidden links at the bottom).
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one of the disadvantages is that the same data will be sent to multiple computers. You can see that they used a grid computing system to create the article:
From the first paragraph:
Grid computing takes advantage of ''down time'' when computers are not using their full processing power to provide quick answers to problems in fields such as genomics, engineering design and financial services. While parallel processing typically involves tying together multiple computers at a single site--all using one piece of software--a computer grid may be much more geographically dispersed, composed of many heterogeneous computers whose availability may change over time.
The third paragraph:
Grid computing takes advantage of ''down time'' when computers are not using their full processing power to provide quick answers to problems in fields such as genomics, engineering design and financial services. While parallel processing typically involves tying together multiple computers at a single site--all using one piece of software--a computer grid may be much more geographically dispersed, composed of many heterogeneous computers whose availability may change over time.
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Grid computing takes advantage of ''down time'' when computers are not using their full processing power to provide quick answers to problems in fields such as genomics, engineering design and financial services.
The way I understand it, they're talking about all the cubies in Charles-Schwab and Raython and Citibank, with Folding@Home and Seti clients running as screensavers. Not dedicated clusters; just plain old ordinary workstations.
And I'd imagine the viruii and worms and DNS outtages all take a serious bite out of their collective assets...