On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Asher Feldman <afeld...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > From the orig post "Recent Intel CPU has a fature called > AES-NI<http://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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
