On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Asher Feldman afeldman@wikimedia.org wrote:
From the orig post "Recent Intel CPU has a fature called AES-NIhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set that accelerates AES processing. A CPU with AES-NI can perform 5 to 10 times faster than a CPU without it. We observe that a single core can perform 5 Gbps and 15 Gbps for encryption and decryption respectively." There's no longer a need for specialized hardware solutions in this space, GPU based or otherwise.
All the hardware we are purchasing for the SSL clusters has this support, as well.
- Ryan