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That goes a bit against the trend in web development to move much of the processing to the client side so i wonder where this will go.
Really high performance streaming of apps/games could revert the trend of making everything browser based in favor of streamed native apps.
> making it ideally suited for video creation services, 3D visualizations, streaming graphics-intensive applications ... And, presumably, cracking hashes!
GPUs were rendered useless by ASIC miners, no? EDIT: Sorry for jumping on the Bitcoin hype train too soon! Many other uses for cracking hashes.
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GPUs were rendered useless by ASIC miners, no? EDIT: Sorry for jumping on the Bitcoin hype train too soon! Many other uses for cracking hashes.
For bitcoins, yes. I believe OP is talking about password hash cracking, a la oclHashcat-plus: http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-plus/
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I'd guess it'd hit about ~75% of a GTX 680 at this task.
What makes you think that? Specs look pretty similar to a 680.
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What makes you think that? Specs look pretty similar to a 680.
800 MHz core clock of each K520 GPU versus 1058 MHz boost clock of GTX 680... http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming-gpu-boards.html
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I've never used Amazon EC2, but with this kind of application, I might have to give it a try. Buying a $300 graphics card just to try some GPU programming is ridiculous.
You don't need to buy a $300 graphics card to experiment with GPU programming. The current and previous generation Intel CPUs (Haswell and Ivy Bridge, respectively) have on-die GPUs which support OpenCL: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdk-for-openc... AMD's APUs are quite cheap (~$100) CPU+GPU designs similar to those in the upcoming PS4 and XBox One (though the retail APUs are somewhat less powerful)…
(Intel do have a Linux OpenCL implementation for Xeon CPU cores and Xeon Phi coprocessor[2], which doesn't help me much. On-CPU OpenCL is fine but hardly faster than regular CPU code, and Phi coprocessors aren't very common currently.)
[1] http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1620203 [2] http://software.intel.com/en-us/vcsource/tools/opencl
22:42:58:WU02:FS00:0x15:GPU memtest failure 22:42:58:WU02:FS00:0x15: 22:42:58:WU02:FS00:0x15:Folding@home Core Shutdown: GPU_MEMTEST_ERROR 22:42:58:WU02:FS00:0x15:Starting GUI Server 22:42:59:WARNING:WU02:FS00:FahCore returned: GPU_MEMTEST_ERROR (124 = 0x7c)