An engineer who tried to use the super computer of the nuclear research facility for mining will be caught

byAndre Francois

An engineer was arrested for trying to use the supercomputer at the nuclear research facility where he is working at will to acquire the virtual currency "Bitcoin".

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http://www.interfax.ru/russia/599218


Russian nuclear scientists arrested for 'Bitcoin mining plot' - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43003740

According to Russia · Interfax Communications, the arrested engineer is Russian nuclear center · Russian laboratory physics laboratory engineer. Mr. Tatianana Zarezkaya, who is responsible for the publicity of the laboratory, acknowledged the engineer was charged with "there was an attempt to illegally utilize supercomputer for so-called" mining ". Mr. Zarez Kaya did not reveal whether the suspect is single or multiple, but BBC reports that it is "more than one scientist."

Russia Nuclear Center · Novgorod State with Russian Experimental Physics LaboratorySaloffHas been known as the center of nuclear development from the era of the Soviet Union, in 2011 the computing capacity is 1PFLOPSSupercomputer has been introduced.

According to Zarez Kaya, it is reported that cases of trying to use the computing ability as a mining in large enterprises and facilities that own computers with high computing power are used in the same way as this time.