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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:43:23 -0400
From: "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@...too.org>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CUDA tweaking to your actual GPU

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On 10/08/2012 01:17 PM, magnum wrote:
> 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 recall seeing some sm_10 or something in the sources suggesting to
change to 20 or 30 or whatever depending on hardware.  Please don't
shoot me if I'm wrong, I freely admit I'm not looking right now but I
bet you know what I'm talking about.
> 
> 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?
*.cl ends up in /etc and john finds it fine. Gentoo has been shipping
opencl/cuda enabled jtr since it was released.

Thanks,
Zero
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