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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 04:48:56 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: PHC: Argon2 on GPU

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 05:40:42PM +0200, Agnieszka Bielec wrote:
> 2015-08-20 22:34 GMT+02:00 Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>:
> > You could start by experimenting with a much simpler than Argon2 yet in
> > some ways similar kernel: implement some trivial operation like XOR on
> > different vector widths and see whether/how this changes the assembly.
> > Then make it slightly less trivial (just enough to prevent the compiler
> > from optimizing things out) and add uses of private or local memory,
> > and see if you can make it run faster by using wider vectors per the
> > same private or local memory usage.
> 
> I tested (only 960m)
> -copying memory from __private to __private
> - from __global to __private
> -xoring private tables with __prrivate tables
> 
> using ulong, ulong2, ulong4, ulong8 (I was getting empty kernel using ulong16)

Great.  Where is the OpenCL code for these?  I'd like to take a look at
what exactly you were testing.

Alexander

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