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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:54:11 +0100
From: Darren Wise <darren@...ecorp.co.uk>
To: john-users-group <john-users@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: JtR, MPI and CUDA+CPU core usage?
Thank you very much for getting back to my question magnum, I will use OpenGL then rather then CUDA directly :)
Can I just confirm with you because it was a little unclear to me..
Using CUDA I cannot use CPU cores and GPU cores together unless a spawn multiple jobs..
Using OpenCL I can use both CPU cores and GPU cores, but per GPU card it will be with the addition of 1 extra process..
I.e: 48 CPU cores and 1 GPU card I would write -n 49 instead :)
Thank you very much magnum :D Lovely to meet you as well :D
> Kind regards,
> Darren Wise Esq,
> B.Sc, HND, GNVQ, City & Guilds.
-------- Original message --------
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
Date: 07/09/2016 20:45 (GMT+00:00)
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [john-users] JtR, MPI and CUDA+CPU core usage?
On 2016-09-07 08:29, Darren Wise wrote:
> I've got a bit of a silly question here folks, nothing I have actually tried yet..
> I have an MPIEXEC install of JtR, 10 nodes (48 CPU cores) I literally have just plonked in my first CUDA card and not even powered it on yet to install the nVidia drivers.
> I am a little concerned, I will reinstall JtR on my MPIserver which uses Ubuntu 14.4LTS server install.. Of which I will include the flags for CUDA support...
> I know this sounds really really stupid, but when as I have done launch -n 48 (48 threads to run on 48 CPU cores) do I now have to spawn -n (number of CPU and total number of GPU cores)
Using CUDA, you'll not be able to use CPU's and GPU's in a single job.
You should run one MPI process per GPU *card*. You can start another job
using the remaining CPU cores on those machines plus all cores on
machines that lack a GPU.
I recommend using OpenCL (even for nvidia), not CUDA. Our OpenCL formats
are way ahead of the CUDA ones, in number and in quality.
magnum
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