[GreenKeys] OT - Highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years...

[Dave G4UGM]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GreenKeys [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf
> Of Dave Horsfall
> Sent: 10 December 2014 20:19
> To: Greenkeys
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] OT - Highly stealthy Linux trojan may have
infected
> victims for years...
> 
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Chris Elmquist wrote:
> 
> > Of the Top 500 fastest computers in the world, 485 run Linux, one runs
> > Windows.
> >
> > http://www.top500.org/statistics/list/
> 

That's pretty much true, but generally it is not Linux as we know it. It's a
special customized kernel that allows many processors and cores to be
efficiently utilized. 

If anyone is interested in such machines there is some info about the ones
in the Hartree Centre at Daresbury, Cheshire, England, close to where I live
here:-

http://community.hartree.stfc.ac.uk/wiki/site/admin/resources.html#bgq


Dave
G4UGM