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Message-ID: <CA+E3k921tBDgT8hNQJO1CRDFx4LcQswFnAshYcnMTOPYx8Cdaw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:29:30 -0900
From: Royce Williams <royce@...ho.org>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi support?
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:17:30PM -0900, Royce Williams wrote:
>> Given the recent sub-$200 pricing for the Xeon Phi 3151P,
>
> You mean 31S1P (that's S, not 5).
Yes, thanks.
> Note that you'll also need a capable motherboard (most won't run a
> Xeon Phi) and chassis supporting passively-cooled PCIe cards (there are
> inexpensive hacks around that, though).
>
> This is possibly the most affordable motherboard known to run Xeon Phi:
>
> http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P9X79_WS/
Thanks for the lead. I had otherwise been looking at:
http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z9PED8_WS/overview/
>> and the relative scarcity of inexpensive ZTEX boards :-)
>
> That's irrelevant.
In the context that I intended -- my own personal project to assemble
an affordable JtR platform for descrypt -- it's not irrelevant (unless
I'm missing your point).
>> what are the
>> potential and likely performance, and level of effort required to use
>> Intel Phi boards with John the Ripper? Just looking for some rough
>> approximations.
>
> For descrypt, up to 80M c/s in current benchmarks (with unreleased code).
> The level of effort depends on how much to support - which formats,
> which ways to access the Xeon Phi boards from host (OpenCL, OpenMP
> offload, OpenMP native). OpenCL already sort of works, but is quite
> pointless to use currently, as magnum said.
Thanks for the overview - makes sense.
For the unreleased descrypt code, is that 80M c/s number dependent on
being fed candidate passwords from CPU, as is the case for
descrypt-opencl on GPU?
Royce
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