Heterogeneous Gpu&Cpu Cluster For High Performance Computing In Cryptography

• Main Authors: Michał Marks, Jaroslaw Jantura, Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz, Przemysław Strzelczyk, Krzysztof Gozdz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: AGH University of Science and Technology Press 2012-01-01
• Series: Computer Science
• Subjects: parallel computing; HPC; clusters; GPU computing; OpenCL; cryptography; cryptanalysis
• Online Access: http://journals.agh.edu.pl/csci/article/download/33/26
• ISSN: 1508-2806

This paper addresses issues associated with distributed computing systems andthe application of mixed GPU&CPU technology to data encryption and decryptionalgorithms. We describe a heterogenous cluster HGCC formed by twotypes of nodes: Intel processor with NVIDIA graphics processing unit and AMDprocessor with AMD graphics processing unit (formerly ATI), and a novel softwareframework that hides the heterogeneity of our cluster and provides toolsfor solving complex scientific and engineering problems. Finally, we present theresults of numerical experiments. The considered case study is concerned withparallel implementations of selected cryptanalysis algorithms. The main goal ofthe paper is to show the wide applicability of the GPU&CPU technology tolarge scale computation and data processing.