j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM¹<div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=846.msg9973#msg9973">Quote from: creighto on August 17, 2010, 08:51:11 PM</a></div><div class="quote">I would be willing to bet that someone used one of these Field-programmable gate array to do this...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/765kta4qr92daea8/">http://www.springerlink.com/content/765kta4qr92daea8/</a><br/><br/>which is something that I, myself, obviously has considered. Whoever is doing it is probably representing a great deal of the current hash percentage, and hogging a pretty good amount of the new bitcoins.</div><br/>...<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader">Quote</div><div class="quote">The successful coding of the sha-256 algorithim into a fpga and recoding of the bitcoin client's generation function to use one or more such fpga's would produce a khash per second rate that no desktop could match. It would look like a super-computer from our perspectives.</div><br/>A lot of hand waving there. For some concrete numbers it quotes 53 MB/s and since we only hash 192 bytes at a time, you might think it would do 0.27 mhash/s (but it probably would be less) which is actually within the range of a desktop.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader">Quote</div><div class="quote">Another possibility is that someone owned or bought one of these...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/features.jsp">http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/padlock/features.jsp</a><br/></div><br/>Ya, someone might! They measure out about 1.5 mhash/s. There are many ordinary Intel or AMD CPUs can do much better than that (with a little more electric power input tho).<br/></div> text/html
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