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A comment on AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility. Parent comment

Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by rpearl on Monday November 25, 2013 @09:11PM (#6798622)
well, btc mining involves sha256(sha256(x)). Not being a hardware person, I don't know if the designs of the asic miners can be re-used to just compute sha256. Maybe, maybe not?
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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by zapu on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @06:32AM (#6800510)
Very specific sha optimizations are put into these circuits, which makes it doubtful that they can be reused for any other kind orf computation involving sha.
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