The document discusses Paul Graham's views on hackers as makers rather than scientists and references several computing and encryption related topics. It mentions Nvidia's Tesla GPUs, CipherFlow for encrypted database processing, and Seymore Cray's views on optimization. It also lists performance numbers for GPU accelerated password cracking, encryption, and hashing tools showing speedups ranging from 3x to 20x compared to CPU implementations.

2. http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html “ Because hackers are more makers than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in the sciences, but among other kinds of makers.” -- Paul Graham Ph.D. from Harvard Inventor of bayesian spam filters

3. 2005, transcoding my bias… non-proprietary CPU+GPU, unified programming model, Interop with OpenGL

6. source: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tesla_c1060_us.html C1060 (GTX 295 w 4GB)

7. source: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tesla_s1070_us.html

8. source: http://kedem.cs.duke.edu/CipherFlow/Press_Release.html

9. source: http://kedem.cs.duke.edu/CipherFlow/index.html

10. source: http://kedem.cs.duke.edu/CipherFlow/index.html "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" --Seymore Cray

11. "some things are better left unread" 7 N RC5-64: 0x63DE7DC154F4D039 5 years

12. "some things are better left unread" 7 N RC5-64: 0x63DE7DC154F4D039 5 years

13. 7 N 224 Trillion keys over 3 years 1 ATI 4890 = 3 days

14. http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/006.pdf

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16. source : http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html CUDA: Where marketing meets academia and has a 1000x lovechild

17. source: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_education.html Google: CUDA university

18. This PDF is better than this talk! http://www.backtrack-linux.org/tutorials/ http://www.backtrack-linux.org/documents/BACKTRACK_CUDA_v2.0.pdf real CUDA expert

19. Aircrack-ng-cuda svn 8800 benchmarks (3x) speedup GPU: k/s = 2458.11 CPU: k/s = 772.85

21. 15x

22. gpu-md5-crack, uses both CPU+GPU

23. source: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_education.html apt-get gpu-md5-crack, multi GPU, 300M MD5 hash/sec coming…

24. Ivan Golubev's IGHASHGPU and RAR GPU, in BT apt sources? ATI & CUDA

25. RAR GPU ATI (20x), Nvidia (12x)

26. source: http://3.14.by/en/read/md5_benchmark MD5 benchmarks, BarsWF 3x increase over CPU version

27. Google: CUDA university

28. sick…10x, Only tool with all three : CUDA, Stream & OpenCL versions! .

29. source: http://code.google.com/p/pyrit/

30. BT4 Live Persistent DVD vmalloc=256MB to kernel, screw X, apt-get and good to go 31,000 Pairwise Master Keys/sec with 3 GTX 260s