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Message-ID: <4C45D903.3050000@banquise.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:12:35 +0200
From: bartavelle@...quise.net
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: On the usefulness of HT with compact SSE code
I just ran a distributed cracking job with my crypt-MD5 implementation.
I used X5650 chips with and without HT. The "with HT" cracking only ran
for about 3 hours, while the other ran for 10 days, but I believe this
is representative.
I used markov mode (level 280) on a real password. My crypt-MD5
implementation was compiled with icc 11 and is quite fast. Here are the
per core speeds :
No HT : 30642.044 pwd/s
HT : 16170.397 pwd/s
-test : 34700.000 pwd/s
HT gave a 5.5% speed increase. I believe this is due to the fact that
the SSE code is quite effective. It might be possible to gain a bit by
running 6 SSE tasks, and 6 "standard" tasks, but I didn't test this.
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