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Sandia Lab Fires Up 300,000 Virtual Android Devices To Test Out Security

coondoggie writes "Researchers with the Sandia National Laboratory have tied together 300,000 virtual Android-based devices in an effort to study the security and reliability of large smartphone networks. The Android project, dubbed MegaDroid, is carefully insulated from other networks at the Labs and the outside world, but can be built up into a realistic computing environment, the researchers stated."

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  1. Reminds me... by Type44Q · · Score: 5, Funny

    That reminds me of this.

  2. Re:Virtual Android devices? by JackCroww · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sandia Labs has the #82 supercomputer in the world, and use that computing power to simulate nuclear explosions and ,IIRC, large meteor strikes (Tunguska I think). They probably have the horsepower to handle this.

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