I agree.

On 8/18/17, 1:26 PM, "USHE-assess on behalf of Goble, Andrew" <ushe-assess-bounces@lists.dixie.edu on behalf of Goble@dixie.edu> wrote:

Given what we are doing, I've always been just a little more comfortable with the hardware hypervisor separation provided by a standalone box. That said, yes, we could run it in our farm no problem.

I see no signs of imminent hardware failure and I could stock a spare drive or two for the existing box, its just 7 or 8 years old and there are no guarantees.

On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 11:41 -0600, Matt Lorimer wrote: > I was originally in the: Let's do the responsible thing and upgraded > the oldest hardware first camp. Then I thought about it and realized > that if that box dies, we can run those vm's on the virtualization > environment of any institution (or the USHE gear). Thinking more, I > realized that cracking hashes faster would make things a little > faster/smoother while on-site for audits. Plus having multiple spots > to be able to crack hashes is handy too. > > Think the cracking rig is the way to go as long as we are comfortable > running basegate workloads from one of the institutions in the event > of hardware failure. > > Matt > > On 08/18/2017 09:44 AM, Mark Walton wrote: > > Whatever you think is best... > > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Jon Barclay Jon.Barclay@uvu.edu > > wrote: > > > I vote to build the bigger password cracking rig with the budget. > > > :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:43 AM -0600, "Goble, Andrew" <Goble@di > > > xie.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > So I am coveting a rig like this now: https://www.shellntel.com > > > > /blog/2017/2/8/how-to-build-a-8-gpu-password-cracker > > > > > > > > 4 card GTX 1080 ti set ups are doing NTLM and NetNTLM in the > > > > 200 and 100 GigaHashes/s range, respectively... this rig would > > > > double that. > > > > > > > > For reference, our 3 card GTX 980s do 64 GH/s for NTLM and 35 > > > > GH/s for NetNTLMv1 > > > > If we built this rig, we'd blow our whole upgrades budget on it > > > > and would have to live with our elderly VMware server down here > > > > for another round. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > USHE-assess mailing list > > > USHE-assess@lists.dixie.edu > > > http://lists.dixie.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ushe-assess > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > USHE-assess mailing list > > USHE-assess@lists.dixie.edu > > http://lists.dixie.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ushe-assess > > _______________________________________________ > USHE-assess mailing list > USHE-assess@lists.dixie.edu > http://lists.dixie.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ushe-assess _______________________________________________ USHE-assess mailing list USHE-assess@lists.dixie.edu http://lists.dixie.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ushe-assess