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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:19:10 +0200
From: "Frank Dittrich" <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Performance tuning

Solar Designer wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:49:16PM +0200, sebastian.rother@...erlin.de 
>wrote:
> > For AMD Motherboards there`s a CO-Processor avaiable wich is
> > compatible to the AMD-Sockets and wich is more powerfull then a FPGA.
> > I don`t know the Company anymore but they produce programmable CPUs wich
> > can be assembled at a f.e. dual CPU Mainboard (one AMD-CPU, one
> > CO-Processor).
> > These CPUs are programmable but they`re NOT limited by the PCI-Bus (like
> > FPGA-based Cards via PCI). So you could speed up some stuff a lot using
> > those Co-Processors... :)
>
>Please post specific references.

I think he refers to
http://www.xtremedatainc.com/xd1000_brief.html

But I wonder whether it's really worth the 4.500 $:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/21/drc_fpga_module/

Frank


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