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Bitcoins

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:13 pm
by Jonathan
http://www.bitcoin.org/

Cryptocurrency. Also an actual GPGPU application, although it does relatively useless work. (Just calculating valid SHA hashes until one is found that meets an arbitrary fitness function.)

Re: Bitcoins

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:21 pm
by Jonathan

Re: Bitcoins

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:28 pm
by Jason
Would be nice if it actually calculated something useful, like primes or dna folding or something like that.

Re: Bitcoins

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:19 pm
by Jonathan
Yes, it certainly would be. That's a lot of electricity.