GPU is brilliant tool for password cracking
While many are touting the GPU as brilliant for supercomputing, it seems that one bloke is suggesting they are really good for bruteforce guessing Windows passwords.
Writing in his bog , Vijay Devakumar, from Chennai, India, said that while GPUs were used only for getting graphical output, rendering frames in games and other purposes related to graphics, people are now realising that GPUs are far more efficient at handling highly parallel tasks. But the difficulty is working out a good way to code graphic cards.