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Are you thinking for cryptocurrency? I doubt that the Mac Pro can compete with other mining setups on performance per $. Also, Swift Crypto is for general-purpo
by rgovostes 7y ago
Are you thinking for cryptocurrency? I doubt that the Mac Pro can compete with other mining setups on performance per $. Also, Swift Crypto is for general-purpose cryptography (e.g., for network protocols), and so it is going to be much slower than an implementation scoped and optimized for mining.
- danpalmer 7y agoCould also be a comment on hardware accelerating the difficult bits of some software. A web server could potentially take advantage from hardware accelerated TLS for example.
- reggieband 7y agoMore likely audio/video workflows where encoding/decoding within a FPGA could be really useful. Realtime effects is also an interesting opportunity (e.g. similar function to the DSP accelerators on Universal Audio equipment). 1. https://www.uaudio.com/uad-accelerators.html https://www.uaudio.com/uad-accelerators.html
- rgovostes 7y agoModern CPUs already have dedicated crypto instructions which are pretty fast, without the cost of copying to another device's memory, loading a program, waiting for it to execute, then copying the output back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set