Cavium Nitrox Security Processor Board GC-CN5690 CNN5560S-85 GC-CN5690 usefull for anything?

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Hi
Is the "Cavium Nitrox Security Processor Board GC-CN5690 CNN5560S-85 GC-CN5690" PCI-E Card for anything usefull like storage some Keys or what ever?
Thanks!

 

[alexskysilk]

Cavium Nitrox is a line of security coprocessors. The only useful function their linux drivers expose is cryptographic acceleration, so if you're building a "high performance" vpn appliance it COULD be useful (I put high performance in quotes because a modern server cpu can cope with the same load directly, especially using AVX type extensions.)