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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 19:17:32 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CUDA tweaking to your actual GPU
On 8 Oct, 2012, at 18:11 , Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:40:40AM -0400, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote:
>> So can we do the same for cuda then?
>
> The same == what? Several things have been mentioned. Anyhow, I and
> others in here understand that distros want to be able to have a single
> mostly-binary build that is near-optimal for a wide range of systems.
> We do have this in mind.
>
>> This is what hashcat does now as well.
>
> As far as I'm aware, hashcat uses precompiled kernels with both OpenCL
> and CUDA - perhaps many for each hash type, yes (for different GPUs).
Why would you want precompiled kernels for a distro though? I assume Hashcat does this mostly for protecting its source code - which we do not need (nor want) to. There are obvious benefits with run-time compilation, and *especially* for distros. It was designed that way for a reason. If you'd make a "jumbo-opencl" package from our current tree, with dependecies of *any* opencl framework package(s), the end user will be able to run it even if his/her hardware (and drivers/framework) are newer than the JtR package itself.
I think we have other important tasks for distros though: Apart from the license mess... I'm not sure our current placement of OpenCL and CUDA headers and sources - in the run directory - works at all with a systemwide build. Has anyone tried that? Will they currently end up in the systemwide bin directory or in ~/.john? Will the OpenCL or CUDA program find them at all?
magnum
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