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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:21:47 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC] building JtR for MIC

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:59:46PM +0800, Lei Zhang wrote:
> This time I got exclusive use of our MIC card and ran john-jumbo's benchmark again.
> Here's the result:
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Will run 240 OpenMP threads
> Benchmarking: descrypt, traditional crypt(3) [DES 64/64]... (240xOMP) DONE
> Many salts:	11702K c/s real, 48709 c/s virtual
> Only one salt:	4253K c/s real, 17728 c/s virtual

The "64/64" suggests you're running scalar 64-bit code, rather than the
512-bit vector code.

> It's better than last time. But descrypt is still too slow and scrypt is still crashing. 
> 
> I checked the status of the MIC card, and found the free memory space left is no more than 3GB. This is reasonable since MIC has no external disk and the filesystem resides entirely on it's RAM.

You need to free up more space there.  A freshly booted MIC card
typically has over 7 GB free.  Clearly, you can fit your JtR jumbo
binary and libraries in there and still have over 7 GB free.

If there are other people's files in there that you can't delete, then
maybe you should move to using our MIC card - we can setup you access.

> As for descrypt, I don't know why it's so slow. It's supposed to share the same code as john-core, right? Or maybe there's something wrong with configuration. I'm still checking.

Yes, something is wrong with the configuration, preventing the MIC
intrinsics from being enabled.

Or maybe your tree doesn't even have the MIC intrinsics in DES_bs_b.c
yet?  magnum merged my changes from core into jumbo just a few days ago.
Have you updated to the latest jumbo tree?

Alexander

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