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Submission + - AMD demonstrates OpenCL at SIGGRAPH Asia (fireuser.com) 1

Submitted by cloude-pottier on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @09:25PM

cloude-pottier writes: At SIGGRAPH Asia, AMD demonstrated their implementation of the OpenCL, an open-standards language developed by the Khronos Group targetting GPGPU and general parallel computing applications. The first demo was called PowderToy, a computational fluid dynamics simulation (a video can be seen on the linked page). The original PowderToy, which the demo is based directly on, can be downloaded as well.

Comment Re:Oh just stick a 2-axis accellerometer inside (Score 1) 191

by Skowronek on Sunday October 19, 2008 @12:08AM (#25428763) Attached to: "BlueTrack" Mouse More Advanced Than Laser, Optical

Yeah, that might be pretty cool. But then you have to calibrate it.

Submission + - SHA-1 cracking on a budget (hackaday.com)

Submitted by cloude-pottier on Friday August 31, 2007 @08:57PM

cloude-pottier writes: One thing that is always amazing is what people manage to pull off on absolutely minimal resources. One enterprising individual went on eBay and found boards with more than half a dozen Virtex II Pro FPGAs, nurse them back to life and build a SHA-1 cracker with two of the boards. This is an excellent example of recycling, as these were originally a part of a Thompson Grass Valley HDTV broadcast system. As a part of the project, the creator wrote tools designed to graph the relationships between components using JTAG as to make reverse engineering the organization of the FPGAs on the board more apparent. More details can be seen on the actual project page. If an individual is able to pull this off for under 500 dollars, it almost makes one wonder what resources the government has available to them to do the same thing...

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