[Skylark] converted a pair of defective HDTV processing boards into his very own FPGA SHA-1 hash cracker. After two months of evening work, he ended up with 15 Virtex-II Pro FPGAs and 5 Spartan-II FPGAs to do his bidding. (FPGA's aren't cheap, so this rocks) Eventually he's going to give it a web interface to allow cracking submissions on request. Great find on the boards and fantastic work [Skylark].
21. Granted this would be a bit different, but I wonder what it would take to implement something along the same lines as this project using GPUs. nVidia appears to be doing something similar with it's Tesla line(see http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html) I can see a lot of challenges with trying to do something like that, but it would make a helluva number cruncher, and you could take out your furnace to make room and heat your house with it.
Posted at 10:46AM on Sep 12th 2007 by Johnny B. Goode