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GPU Cracking: Setting up a Server

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A walkthrough for building a headless GPU cracking server: installing Ubuntu 12.10, AMD drivers, oclHashcat-plus, and John the Ripper, tailored to AMD cards since Linux driver support lags Windows.
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