04-16-2021, 12:56 AM
Well, I did some benchmarking...
I compared my local machine to a couple of cloud instances. I basically started with the base image that the FaceSwap folks provide, because I'm lazy and it already had the nVidia drivers installed.
Then I installed nvidia-cuda-toolkit and hashcat, and saved it as my actual image to use.
I tried running it with Tesla P100, and with Tesla K80. Interestingly, the K80 was a nonstarter, as it complained about outdated CUDA capability, and ended up performing as poorly as my local machine.
Interestingly, the ratio between "benchmark 11600" and "actual real-world 11600" seems to be ~30 consistently across the board... maybe there's something I can do to bridge that gap that I'm not yet aware of...
Unless I find a massive boost in bang-for-the-buck with the higher end stuff, even short passwords are fairly intractable/costly to deal with.
I compared my local machine to a couple of cloud instances. I basically started with the base image that the FaceSwap folks provide, because I'm lazy and it already had the nVidia drivers installed.
Then I installed nvidia-cuda-toolkit and hashcat, and saved it as my actual image to use.
I tried running it with Tesla P100, and with Tesla K80. Interestingly, the K80 was a nonstarter, as it complained about outdated CUDA capability, and ended up performing as poorly as my local machine.
Interestingly, the ratio between "benchmark 11600" and "actual real-world 11600" seems to be ~30 consistently across the board... maybe there's something I can do to bridge that gap that I'm not yet aware of...
Unless I find a massive boost in bang-for-the-buck with the higher end stuff, even short passwords are fairly intractable/costly to deal with.