In previous post I’ve wrote about 83.5% utilization percentage for MD5. This value while looking good enough in fact isn’t that good as it’s already was for SHA-1 (95.5%). Back in January I was tried to improve utilization by processing 5xMD5 hashes per thread (with 5D VLIW it should be ideal setup, obviously). But either I’ve done something wrong or CAL compiler wasn’t in mood, anyway 5xMD5 wasn’t the best option that days — I’ve only got slowdowns compared to (classic) 4xMD5 vectors.

But recently, Marc Bevand released Whitepixel and he claims 28.6B/sec speed for 4×5970. Obviously it isn’t possible to reach with 83.5% utilization, so I’ve made some tests with 5xMD5 again and this time speed-up is here. Simple IL kernel modifications ends in 95.5% utilization for inner/main cycle or, in other words, +12% performance. That’s 2.1B/s single MD5 for 5770 and around 7.1B for 5970 (I’m lazy right now to check this by my own). You can get latest version of ighashgpu here (still very limited for ATI GPUs).

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In other news — we’ve finally got program icon from designer and so Accent RAR Password Recovery (beta) was released today. At last! There are a lot of things I want to write about RAR GPU (well, most of them are negative :D ), so I’m planning to make a separate post about it. But as many peoples asking about Fermi/68xx support for rars I’ve decided to put here this announce at least.

And, yes, this program is fully commercial (cruel world indeed!) but discount coupon I’ve posted some time ago should works with it (if not — let me know).