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Message-ID: <20060729205614.GA7296@openwall.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:56:14 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Optimized for Cell BE
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 11:26:57AM -0700, James Evans wrote:
> Hi -- I'm just curious to see if anyone has thoughts
> about running JtR on the new Cell Processor.
This topic was briefly raised in here before, but it was not seriously
discussed.
> IBM just released a new SDK for it,
> http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/cellsw?open&S_TACT=105AGX16&S_CMP=DWPA
Interesting stuff.
> I would take a guess that JtR could be optimized to
> run very quickly using the Cell's architecture,
Yes.
> ... it is going to be hard to write code which can
> fully exploit the Cell.
That's true.
> However, I think it may be easier in the case of JtR
Well, one potential way to do it might be to treat SPEs as a special
case of network nodes, once distributed processing support is added.
I wish I had the time to play with this. Unfortunately, I don't expect
to find the time unless there's commercial demand. Maybe I could
approach some IBM folks suggesting that this could be a great example of
performance improvement with the Cell.
> (I did see in the code some
> mention of AltiVec, but that would only exploit the
> core of the Cell rather than its SPEs).
Correct.
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