PS3 used to crack passwords

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MikeB said:

As could be expected PC CPU: 10--15 million cycles per second vs PS3 Cell 1.4 billion cycles per second.

The PS3 is a number crunching powerhouse, also interesting:

"TOKYO, Nov. 28 -- Fixstars Corporation today announced that the company developed the new "CVCell" module aiming to accelerate several important OpenCV APIs for the Cell Broadband Engine. CVCell achieved up to 27 times faster performance in image processing compared to Intel Core2Duo 2.4 GHz."

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1913695.html

 so the ps3 can outperform a 386  running at 15 Mhz, wow news to me