The Cheezy Blog

It seems the PlayStation 3’s Cell processor really is starting to come into its own. Not as a gaming CPU but rather in all sorts of high usage applications such as Folding and Cryptography.  The processor apparently gives performance up to 100 times that of standard PC CPUs, not surprising really when you consider that the Cell was originally destined to be doing the graphics for the PS3 and other GPU based systems seem to be VERY good at this sort of thing too.

PlayStation 3 Password Cracking