Linux Driver Installation Question

[Wushu]

Good morning.

I'm building up a 4 GPU cracking system for our team. Tyan barebones, 4 GTX 770s, etc.

In my previous life, I was a Windows admin, and my Linux skills are still pretty weak. Our team lead thought this would be a good project for me to brush up on Linux skills. I'm popping Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server onto the system this afternoon. My question is what nVidia drivers and packages do I need to install for oclHashCat to function properly? Not versions, I got that, but do I just need the nVidia display drivers, or do I need to set up CUDA 5.5 as well? Are there any other packages and dependencies I should install first? Is there anything I need to remove besides nouveau?

Thanks.

[KT819GM]

Nvidia for hash cracking? Any advantages comparing to AMD?

[radix]

Good morning.

I'm building up a 4 GPU cracking system for our team. Tyan barebones, 4 GTX 770s, etc.

In my previous life, I was a Windows admin, and my Linux skills are still pretty weak. Our team lead thought this would be a good project for me to brush up on Linux skills. I'm popping Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server onto the system this afternoon. My question is what nVidia drivers and packages do I need to install for oclHashCat to function properly? Not versions, I got that, but do I just need the nVidia display drivers, or do I need to set up CUDA 5.5 as well? Are there any other packages and dependencies I should install first? Is there anything I need to remove besides nouveau?

Thanks.

Grab the latest driver and latest oclHashcat. Install the driver, reboot, unpack hashcat and you should be good to go.

[Wushu]

Thanks radix.

KT, not really, if I was going just for speed. This machine is for our team of very busy testers, and none of us have a lot of downtime for maintenance. We have a single AMD GPU at the moment, and we've had to really troubleshoot the system a number of times due to driver issues. Personally, as a gamer in my off hours, I feel the nVidia drivers tend to be less prone to issues and easier to get set up. Plus, I should still be able to brute force the entire 8 char NTLM space within a few days, and NTLM makes up about 75% of the hashes we typically crack. So when we designed the new system, we went with nVidia to increase reliability. That, and we got a deal on 4 eVGA GTX 770s. If speed were of the utmost importance, I'd have gone with AMD.