! GeForce 8 cracks passwords !

That graphic processors (GPU) have a much higher theoretical arithmetic performance than current CPUs, is not new. Practically now Elcomsoft points to version 2.0 its Distributed password Recovery (DPR), how GeForce-8-card uses, in order to crack Windows NTLM passwords up to 25 times faster than before. An eight-digit Windows password is to be able to be in such a way computed instead of in two months in three to five days. Several computers can additional be connected to a cluster, in order to increase the throughput still further. The software developed by Elcomsoft is to be announced to the patent.
In particular for highly parallel task modern diagram maps are suitable like of NVidia with 128 Stream processors outstanding. However the GPU controls only floating point computations with simple accuracy, why she is not suitable for all applications, for instance simulation of climatic models.