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AGENCY OF METEOROLOGY STAFF ADDRESSED BY AFP OVER CRYPTOGRAPHIC MONEY MINING

It has been accounted for the Australian Federal Police (AFP) is exploring two Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) staff over affirmations they were utilizing the Agency’s gear to dig for the digital currency.

As first announced by the ABC on Thursday, two BOM IT representatives are being researched for purportedly running the task utilizing the agency’s “intense PCs”.

AFP affirmed with ZDNet it executed a court order at the Docklands, Melbourne premises on February 28, 2018.

AFP additionally said the examination is progressing.

  • BOM got another Cray XC-40 supercomputer in November 2016 to reinforce the association’s capacity to anticipate the climate.
  • The Cray XC-40 supercomputer keeps running on a Linux-based working framework, particularly intended to run substantial, complex applications and scale proficiently to in excess of 500,000 processor centers.
  • It houses 2,160 figure hubs, with 51,840 Intel Xeon centers, 276TB of RAM, and a usable stockpiling of 4.3PB.

The department reported in June 2015 that it had marked the AU$77 million contract with Cray to supplant the maturing Sun Microsystems machine that was appointed in 2013.

The BOM initially uncovered its goals to redesign its supercomputer in August 2014, with the department’s presently CEO Dr. Rob Vertessy telling ZDNet at the time that executing the new supercomputer will address two primary issues of climate anticipating, and give the framework versatility that the association needs.

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