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Title: Pico FPGA Hardware Beats GPGPU in Password Cracking Post by: naima53 on July 20, 2012, 03:56:39 PM Who ever heard of this hardware? It may be used for mining?
http://vr-zone.com/articles/pico-fpga-hardware-beats-gpgpu-in-password-cracking/16705.html# Title: Re: Pico FPGA Hardware Beats GPGPU in Password Cracking Post by: mrb on July 23, 2012, 02:28:12 AM I have been in contact with Pico Computing, about a year ago, to investigate mining on their FPGAs. But it turned out that their LX150 boards ($1200+ per LX150) are insanely expensive compared to, say, Ztex (starting around $220 per LX150).
Title: Re: Pico FPGA Hardware Beats GPGPU in Password Cracking Post by: Coinoisseur on July 23, 2012, 02:58:11 AM Yeah, Pico seems to be good at pushing PR and perhaps their support is top notch (only their customers know) but their hardware markup is very high.
Title: Re: Pico FPGA Hardware Beats GPGPU in Password Cracking Post by: BR0KK on July 24, 2012, 10:41:45 AM there even was a small rig manufacture that wanted to build a RIG out of these things. I can't find it anymore :(
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