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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:25:31 -0800
From: Dan Tentler <dan@...nlabs.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Do the precompiled binaries for windows support
CUDA?
It's just helpful - since this is mostly a hobby (meaning my work
doesn't fund hardware, I have to use my own) I don't spend enough time
cracking passwords to warrant a separate machine with teslas and fermis
to run linux on. It saves me the trouble of continually having to reboot
a machine for just one purpose.
That being said, I'm happily using JtR on both mac osx and linux using
MPI - I'd just love to be able to remotely hit a command prompt on my
windows machine to leverage that card.
I suspect that if a build did surface that supported cuda on windows a
huge tide of new users would appear in the community.
On 2/23/12 5:05 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:28:11PM -0800, Dan Tentler wrote:
>> I'm just curious if the precompiled windows downloadables support CUDA
>> or not..
> They don't.
>
>> I have a windows box with a gtx580 in it and I'd like to make use of
>> it when it's not gaming.
> This may be tricky to do with JtR currently. As far as I'm aware, the
> current CUDA and OpenCL patches for JtR were tested almost exclusively
> on Linux systems so far, with a little bit of testing on Mac OS X.
> Windows is almost untested. You're welcome to try, though (add a proper
> make target yourself and build from source if you're brave enough).
>
> The good news, though, is that we're working on merging the CUDA and
> OpenCL patches into the next -jumbo source tree (in fact, it's been
> mostly done, just not released yet), so I guess more people will try to
> make builds of this stuff for more systems once we release it.
> Personally, I have no immediate plans to make a GPU-enabled Windows
> build, though - maybe someone else will (try to) do that. Your demand
> for this matters to us.
>
> Alexander
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