Searching RC5 Keyspaces with Distributed Reconfigurable Hardware.
John P. Morrison, Padraig J. O'Dowd, Philip D. Healy · 2003
Abstract — Topic Area: Software. Implementation details and performance measurements for a brute-force RC5 keycrack application executing on a cluster containing commodity reconfigurable hardware are presented. The purpose of the application is to gauge the maximum real-world speedups attainable on a metacomputer that forms the underlying execution platform. The operation of the metacomputer and its associated tools, designed to target cluster-based distributed reconfigurable hardware in a high-level manner, is discussed in detail. Index Terms — Reconfigurable computing, high performance computing, distributed reconfigurable computing.