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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:35:57 +0100
From: Lasse Knudsen <lasse.h.knudsen@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Splitting workload on multiple hosts

Hi Magnum,

this sounds exactly what i need,

thank you
-lk


2013/12/12 magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>

> 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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