New AWS G3 Instance Lineup
Amazon has released their new G3 instances. Utilizing a Tesla M60 GPU platform ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-m60.html ) and scaling up to 4 GPU's. Along with this you also get 64 CPU's and almost half a TB of RAM. I figured it was time to crunch some numbers on Hashcat performance of the current AWS cloud options. For all the new G3 M60 GPU benchmarks, please visit ( https://gist.github.com/binary1985/881c2df6310659413102eaf5e349e999 ) Current state of GPU Hash Cracking I have been following GPU performance trends since it first became popular with bitcoin. A recent trend in the cloud has me optimistic that "some" day high intensity GPU work loads will make fiscal sense to run cloud based. The last time I checked the current state of AWS GPU Hashcat performance I was disappointed in the findings however since then 2 new lines of GPU instances have come into play. Lets take a look at the current top tier options, using on demand pricing structures. G