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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:38:00 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Benchmark result

On 2015-08-07 09:36, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 01:53:14AM +0200, Viktor Gazdag wrote:
>> ./john --fork=8 --device=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 --format=Raw-SHA256-opencl
>
> This is a total waste of GPUs.  Don't do it.  For fast hashes (anything
> starting with raw-*, some others), we generally don't have efficient
> code on GPUs, with some recent exceptions (Sayantan has implemented mask
> mode on GPU recently, for a handful of fast hash types, but not for all).

It's not a waste: Claudio implemented GPU-side mask for his raw formats 
long ago!

magnum


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