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60 years of achievements to be celebrated at Sandia National Labs mid-December |
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Source: Examiner - Posted by Alex
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In terms of cyber security research findings, Sandia has made a significant achievement in successfully demonstrating for the first time the ability to run more than a million Linux kernels as virtual machines. A kernel is the central component of most computer operating systems. 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.
Since cyber researchers want to improve their understanding of how botnets work and stop them in their tracks before cyber attacks occur, running a high volume of virtual machines on one supercomputer makes this possible. A virtual machine is a set of software programs that run on one computer and act collectively as they perform as a separate, complete unit.
According to Sandia’s Ron Minnich, the more kernels that can be run at once, the more effective cyber security professionals can be in combating the global botnet problem. Both Dell and IBM made key technical contributions to the experiments. Sandia’s research has lasted two years and was funded by NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC).
Eventually, we would like to be able to emulate the computer network of a small nation, or even one as large as the United States, in order to ‘virtualize’ and monitor a cyber attack, he said.
Sandia researchers are hoping to create models of parts of the Internet by using millions to tens of millions of operating systems.
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