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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:59:13 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Splitting workload on multiple hosts

On 2013-12-11 21:51, Lasse Knudsen wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> i was wondering if is possible to split a large john job up into many
> smaller jobs, lets say 10000, where we these jobs then indivually can be
> send off to a compute grid?
>
> eg.
> aaaaaaaa-ZZZZZZZZZ gets split up into 10000 individual jobs that each take
> a fraction of the job?

 From version 1.8 you can say "I'm node 427 out of 10000" using the 
option "--node=427/10000". If some of your nodes are much stronger than 
others you can tell them to do more work, eg. "--node=1-20/10000" will 
make this node do the first 20 splices.

magnum

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