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Today AWS announce a long-awaited upgrade to their G2 family of instances – the g2.8xlarge. The big brother of the 2x , which was hitherto the only GPU-backed instance available on the AWS platform. Here’s how the two compare in specifications: Instance vCPU ECU Memory (GiB) Instance Storage...
A little while ago I wrote up a summary of the distributed.net RC5-72 project . One of my habits over the years has been to run the good old cow client on every new computer I’ve built just to see how the speed compares. So when I picked up a new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B this week, this habit held...
History Anyone kicking around the internet since the early days will have heard of distributed.net ‘s RC5-72 distributed computing project. Arising from RSA labs Secret-Key Challenge , the project sought to utilise distributed computing power to perform a brute force attack in an attempt to...
