laser VS JohnTheRipper

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laser

The HPC toolbox: fused matrix multiplication, convolution, data-parallel strided tensor primitives, OpenMP facilities, SIMD, JIT Assembler, CPU detection, state-of-the-art vectorized BLAS for floats and integers (by mratsim)

JohnTheRipper

John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs [Moved to: https://github.com/openwall/john] (by magnumripper)
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laser JohnTheRipper
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261 4,811
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3.6 0.0
4 months ago about 3 years ago
Nim C
Apache License 2.0 -
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laser

Posts with mentions or reviews of laser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-23.
  • From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024
    It depends.

    You need 2~3 accumulators to saturate instruction-level parallelism with a parallel sum reduction. But the compiler won't do it because it only creates those when the operation is associative, i.e. (a+b)+c = a+(b+c), which is true for integers but not for floats.

    There is an escape hatch in -ffast-math.

    I have extensive benches on this here: https://github.com/mratsim/laser/blob/master/benchmarks%2Ffp...

  • Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and matrix multiplication
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2024
    Ah,

    It was from an older implementation that wasn't compatible with Nim v2. I've commented it out.

    If you pull again it should work.

    > Anyway the reason for your competitive performance is likely that you are benchmarking with very small matrices. OpenBLAS spends some time preprocessing the tiles which doesn't really pay off until they become really huge.

    I don't get why you think it's impossible to reach BLAS speed. The matrix sizes are configured here: https://github.com/mratsim/laser/blob/master/benchmarks/gemm...

    It defaults to 1920x1920 * 1920x1920. Note, if you activate the benchmarks versus PyTorch Glow, in the past it didn't support non-multiple of 16 or something, not sure today.

    Packing is done here: https://github.com/mratsim/laser/blob/master/laser/primitive...

    And it also support pre-packing which is useful to reimplement batch_matmul like what CuBLAS provides and is quite useful for convolution via matmul.

  • Why does working with a transposed tensor not make the following operations less performant?
    2 projects | /r/MLQuestions | 19 Jun 2021
    For convolutions: - https://github.com/numforge/laser/blob/e23b5d63/research/convolution_optimisation_resources.md
  • Improve performance with SIMD intrinsics
    1 project | /r/C_Programming | 25 Feb 2021
    You can train yourself on matrix transposition first. It's straightforward to get 3x speedup between naive transposition and double loop tiling, see: https://github.com/numforge/laser/blob/d1e6ae6/benchmarks/transpose/transpose_bench.nim#L238

JohnTheRipper

Posts with mentions or reviews of JohnTheRipper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-13.

What are some alternatives?

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Arraymancer - A fast, ergonomic and portable tensor library in Nim with a deep learning focus for CPU, GPU and embedded devices via OpenMP, Cuda and OpenCL backends

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nim-sos - Nim wrapper for Sandia-OpenSHMEM

john - John the Ripper jumbo - advanced offline password cracker, which supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, and runs on many operating systems, CPUs, GPUs, and even some FPGAs

ParallelReductionsBenchmark - Thrust, CUB, TBB, AVX2, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenMP, SyCL - all it takes to sum a lot of numbers fast!

bitcracker - BitCracker is the first open source password cracking tool for memory units encrypted with BitLocker

analisis-numerico-computo-cientifico - Análisis numérico y cómputo científico

blake3 - An AVX-512 accelerated implementation of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function

blis - BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework

42_CheatSheet - A comprehensive guide to 50 years of evolution of strict C programming, a tribute to Dennis Ritchie's language

lm8 - A custom 8-bit computer and software suite