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Virtual OpenCL (VCL) support - thorsheim - 08-17-2012

http://www.mosix.org/txt_vcl.html

Jeremi Gosney (epixoip) is looking into this stuff. Distributed cracking in some sort of master/slave scenario is one approach, but with VCL support a single machine running lite/plus will just see N available OpenCL GPUs in one OS, while VCL actually distributes the load over network to N systems with <=8 (or something) physical GPU cards.

For password cracking I haven't made up my mind yet on what would eventually be the most effective way to do it (distributed through server/slave or VCL). It just sounds really cool to utilize a cluster like that.


RE: Virtual OpenCL (VCL) support - atom - 08-17-2012

This sounds interessting, but it looks like its linux only or am I wrong? In this case, native network support would be better.


RE: Virtual OpenCL (VCL) support - thorsheim - 08-18-2012

(08-17-2012, 11:41 PM)atom Wrote: This sounds interessting, but it looks like its linux only or am I wrong? In this case, native network support would be better.

Good point atom; its linux only for sure.


RE: Virtual OpenCL (VCL) support - atom - 09-07-2012

Done with oclHashcat-plus v0.09: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-1541.html

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