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Re:New Amazon EC2 GPU Instance Type by prezjordan on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @04:43PM (#6678589)
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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Re:New Amazon EC2 GPU Instance Type by profquail on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @04:58PM (#6678697)
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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Re:New Amazon EC2 GPU Instance Type by prezjordan on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @05:03PM (#6678741)
Aha, you're absolutely right. Shame "cracking hashes" is synonymous to Bitcoins in my mind.
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