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		mrduncan on July 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Winning team's approach to EY's SHA-1 contest (Fas... What I find pretty fascinating is that according to their numbers the 14 GPU cores were performing about 1.5 times as many hashes per second as the 115 CPU cores were.

pmorici on July 23, 2009 | [–]

Those 14 GPUs have a lot more than 14 cores though. A GTX 295 graphics card for example has 240 cores per chip x 2 chips. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_300_Series#Technical_su...

ars on July 22, 2009 | [–]

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