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I see this a lot on the web, and barely understood it, found it where it came from but it still wasn’t anything special

after seeing this it makes more sense

Developer deploys graphics cards to accelerate password cracks | The Register:

Basically running the algorithms through a standard dual core PC woudl tak 2 months, plug in a GeForce 8 graphics card, use the right code and you can run it in 5 days!

why aren’t all Nvidia making CPU’s rather than GPU’s if they have that much power? ok yes its dedicated number crunching power but still that kind of speed ups pretty nice

wonder what kind of a performance upgrade a computer would get if it was ran using a combination of CPU + GPU for everything rather than cpu for work, gu for display

Crazy guy snorts wasabi powder for $1m , nice prize but maybe not sensible

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Kiwi boffins prove that booze makes you clever | The Register:

not too much, and not to little, it has to be just right