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Re:ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer by pgeorgi on Friday September 30, 2016 @07:00AM (#12611697)
Some anecdata:

Somebody tried to use a university department's T2 because it was unused and reasonably parallel for some experiment on hashing.

Single core SHA1 speed on a t2 was ~300KB/s or so. Even with its 32 threads I recommended going for any ancient desktop that happened not to be used for a couple of days because the experiment would finish much faster there. Those desktops were about Core Duo class and managed 50-100MB/s SHA1 throughput (I think, it's been a couple of years).

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Re:ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer by nickpsecurity on Friday September 30, 2016 @11:58AM (#12613239)
What the hell...??? Ok, it's looking like Im going to retract that recommendation for workstations. Maybe still servers thst are I/O bound.
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