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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by fsniper on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:14PM (#715075)
This idea is a really well thought and implemented. This may be a new way of cloud sourcing. Have you considered making a facebook app? It would definitely attract many more people than this. Of course you shou ld offer some carrots for users that do not have any idea what's going on.
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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by rottencupcakes on Monday July 20, 2009 @05:29PM (#715255)
It's pretty well though out and is awesome in principle. The problem is that our interpreted javascript cloud network is getting owned by the awesome power of nVidia GPUs.

"Yeah, my 5 GPUs are currently cranking at a total rate of 800 M/sec. (Best score of 39 after running for a few minutes.)

(Hah! Just got lucky and hit 35 on one card after an hour.) " - The nVidia CUDA group

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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by PStamatiou on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:39PM (#715144)
Agreed. running it on my computer with the slider set to max. Hope you win!
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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by mikeyur on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @06:24AM (#716018)
Ditto. Got 10 tabs in Chrome and 10 tabs in Safari all running at 1ms. Using ~60% CPU. I'll let it run for the next 4-5hrs until I go to work.

Good luck.

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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by fsniper on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:53PM (#715168)
oops :) I intended to comment on racymorgan implementation not this one. But this is good too. Opening tabs sometimes cause these mistakes. Sorry for both parties.
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