A few beefy GPUs bring you closer to real-time cracking than CPUs ever
will.
We are currently working on different ways to overcome the storage
seek time bottleneck.
-Karsten
On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Long Nguyen wrote:
> 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
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