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Old 16th May 2008
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t4y4n, building a cluster for cracking passwords is not going to be an easy task. You will need an application that works in parallel. There may be a version of
"John the Ripper" that works with rainbow tables.

The difficulty might not be building the cluster itself but more finding or building the application that will run on it...

I'm sorry I don't know anything about Catia.

For sure, you will need MPI if you want to crack passwords in parallel. If you plan on having multiple users you will also need a resource manager.

As I mentioned before there is no precise how-to on how to build an HPC cluster because they are all different. It all depends on your application (home brewed / commercia; serial / parallel) and on your user base.
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