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On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:57 PM, remodeler wrote:

> I'm wondering if there's any core functionality or third-party  
> utilities to
> off-load cryptographic processing to the GPU or audio chip, instead  
> of using a
> hardware acceleration expansion card? This is on amd64 build.

Check out the Nvidia Tesla, although it probably will only work on  
Windows and Linux.

What is your application, though?


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