Some anecdata: Somebody tried to use a university department's T2 because it was unused and reasonably parallel for some experiment on hashing. Single core SH

Some anecdata: Somebody tried to use a university department's T2 because it was unused and reasonably parallel for some experiment on hashing. Single core SHA1 speed on a t2 was ~300KB/s or so. Even with its 32 threads I recommended going for any ancient desktop that happened not to be used for a couple of days because the experiment would finish much faster there. Those desktops were about Core Duo class and managed 50-100MB/s SHA1 throughput (I think, it's been a couple of years).