[NBLUG/talk] Uses for GPGPU?

Aaron Grattafiori aaron at digitalinfinity.net
Wed Jan 14 14:22:21 PST 2009


Yep. Cracking Encryption and finding MD5 collisions :)

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081013-company-puts-nvida-gpus-to-work-cracking-wireless-security.html
http://www.darknet.org.uk/2007/11/graphics-cards-the-next-big-thing-for-password-cracking/
http://bvernoux.free.fr/md5/index.php
http://somken.com/images/md5_crack1billion.jpg <- GPU is _MUCH_ faster.

I don't know if its "popular" yet but.. it sure is cool and I hope for 
more open source tools for utilizing your GPU's vector tweaked mhz.

-Aaron

ps. Awesome work Jake (and team) on the SSL certs w/ MD5

On 13:06 Wed 14 Jan     , Scott Doty wrote:
> Can anybody think of any swizzing "popular" uses for these new GPU-based 
> supercomputers?
> 
>    http://www.nvidia.com/object/personal_supercomputing.html
> 
>    http://www.ddj.com/architect/207200659
> 
> ( I had the idea of building mysqld or mencoder with nvcc, but that is 
> probably
> very naive... )
> 
> What do you think?
> 
>  -Scott
> 
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