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FPGA Clusters break speed records for decryption at 280Billion keys/sec
Meet the Pico SG5 FPGA Cluster
http://www.mil-embedded.com/articles/id/?4724
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/02/pico-computing-fpga-up-to-4620-times.html
A Pico SG5 FPGA cluster, a 4U server using 1400 watts of power, is capable of processing more than 280 billion DES operations per second or 4 billion WEP keys per second.
This means that a 56 bit DES key recovery that would take years to perform on a PC, even with GPU acceleration, could be accomplished in less than three days....on only one of these boxes.
At only 4U tall, a standard computer rack could hold 13 of these devices, and a small data center could hold quite a few racks. So 280 billion-per-second, times 13 gives you something like 4 Trillion attempts per second in a single server rack.
Consider that a Pico SG5 delivers the equivalent of more than a TeraFlop of processing power for less than $10K in a PC-sized box, while the latest Cray SuperComputers deliver 150 TeraFlops of processing power in a set of devices that costs millions and requires a dedicated data center and staff.