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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:09:20 +0300
From: Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi
Hi,
I??m a student from Peking University, China. And I??m very interested in that GSoC project.
What about merging ??JtR support for Xeon Phi?? and ??Better SIMD implementations of SHA-2?? into one project? Since they??re both related to the use of SIMD instructions.
Lei
> ?? 2015??3??6????????12:47??Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> ??????
>
> Hi,
>
> I've finally cleaned up and committed my Xeon Phi support patch for
> descrypt into the core tree, along with addition of the linux-mic make
> target.
>
> The introduction of extra intrinsics is straightforward:
>
> http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/john/john/src/DES_bs_b.c.diff?r1=1.42;r2=1.43
>
> The speed is not so great, but we knew this before:
>
> [user@...er-mic0 user]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./john -te=1 -form=descrypt
> Will run 240 OpenMP threads
> Benchmarking: descrypt, traditional crypt(3) [512/512]... DONE
> Many salts: 80170K c/s real, 333233 c/s virtual
> Only one salt: 7660K c/s real, 61684 c/s virtual
>
> (This is on our 5110P.)
>
> The icc-generated assembly code for DES_bs_b.c looks sane to me (about
> as good as what we're used to seeing for AVX, or maybe even better since
> there are 32 ZMM registers). I also experimented with adjusting
> DES_bs_cpt in DES_bs.h, and the previous default of 32 turned out to be
> nearly optimal so I left it intact.
>
> magnum - please merge these changes into jumbo. Thanks in advance.
>
> This will provide a baseline for addition of MIC intrinsics to other
> parts of John the Ripper jumbo tree, which is a task we have listed
> among our ideas for this year's GSoC projects:
>
> http://openwall.info/wiki/ideas#John-the-Ripper-support-for-Xeon-Phi
>
> ... and perhaps this will need to be merged with another task, if done
> under GSoC, since at this time it feels like too little work for GSoC,
> or maybe the scope should be expanded in some other way - suggestions
> are welcome.
>
> Alexander
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