X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s letters to Swedish count

Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by klyrs on Sunday October 03, 2021 @03:52PM (#28739985)

A farm of a billion GPUs, each with a thousand cores sounds quite feasible with today's tech and gets you to trillion-times speedup of brute force. So, feel free to divide by 10^12... still not tractable.

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Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by gregmac on Sunday October 03, 2021 @06:18PM (#28740994)

Have you tried to buy a GPU lately?

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Re:X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s let... by klyrs on Sunday October 03, 2021 @06:54PM (#28741244)

I was in the market for a single GPU about 6 months ago, it shipped in a week and didn't break the bank. Buying a billion GPUs is an entirely different question. I'd look into buying fab equipment and doing a custom architecture. Given the length of the computation we're talking about, even a decade of lead time wouldn't significant. But as I understand it, current lead times are still less than a year.

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