[hpsdr] OT..FPGA in Forbes Magazine

[Hermann]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:53 PM,  <lstoskopf at cox.net> wrote:
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> Forbes magazine, May 24, pp. 32 has an interesting article, Silicon Safecracker, discussing use of FPGAs to crack very secure codes.  Mainly about a Seattle company, Pico Computing.  Makes me appreciate those FPGA mavens on the list.  But what I really want is the knob in the picture that hooks right on the LCD screen!
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Some researchers are buying 4 High-end Nvidia graphics adapters, built
them into a standard PC (with SLI), using CUDA and try to break Hash
functions! Such a PC is already a supercomputer and costs not much
more than 1k $!

vy 73,
Hermann

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