---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Long Nguyen <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [A51] several questions To: Karsten Nohl <[email protected]>
Then why the hell do we need GPUs as well? Why not have everyone buy quadcores and use that? Long On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Karsten Nohl <[email protected]> wrote: > Being an anonymous project for the most part, we officially know about > the progress only as much as is reported on the project web site. Let > me say though that we are confident to show decent results at the 26C3. > > The crack phase is mostly limited by storage access time. When storing > the tables locally on hard disks, a CPU will be fast enough not to be > the bottleneck. When faster storage such as SSDs is available, GPUs > lower the crack time significantly. > > Cheers, -Karsten > > On Dec 6, 2009, at 3:16 PM, p q wrote: > >> Hi >> with current GPU participants how much longer the project needs to >> go on before we can have an initial real world test ? do we have to >> accelerate the lookup phase with GPUs or CPU is enough ? how come ? >> thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> A51 mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51 > > _______________________________________________ > A51 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51 > _______________________________________________ A51 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51
