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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Pollard's kangaroo ECDLP solver
by
NotATether
on 23/05/2021, 17:36:20 UTC
I am not too sure how to calculate this, if someone can help me.

We have at the Uni one NVIDIA DGX A100

It packs 5 petaFLOPS, eight A100 GPUs with 320GB of GPU memory.

Realistically, if we get permission to run it 24/7 (which I doubt lol) for the 120 key, how long would it take? Is it feasible? And more important, would the Kangaroo even work on it?

I remember WanderingPhilosipher saying that 256 V100's that were running simultaneously for several years only exhausted 15% of #120, and regardless of how faster an A100 is versus a V100, 8 of them definitely won't make the cut.

And you also have to worry about making Kangaroo dump the private key to a file (if it even supports that without stdout redirects), or you'll lose the key if your terminal session is disconnected.