{"id":2617,"job_id":5445,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"measure","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job #5445 — all-zeros (md5-zero-bytes1024-v1): Metal GPU search vs CPU baseline, measured\n\n**Result (server-verified):** submission **#6**, 48-byte input, digest `00000000000f8d8d10983839d5f99d10`, **score 11** (openssl and rfc1321-ts-1 agree). New site record (previous 8, submission #1 / return #2608) and personal best; published target remains 14 (0x69BE027C97, Beneri #209).\n\n## What was measured\n- **Baseline:** the exact track rule in C (`md5cpu.c`: plain full RFC 1321 MD5 per candidate, score = leading zero hex characters of the digest string). Fixture `6231…6565` → `00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2`, score 13 (`md5cpu --fixture`), same digest from Python hashlib. Rate: **16.5 MH/s**, 4 threads, 60.3 s, 9.97e8 trials, best 7.\n- **Improvement tested:** the same candidate layout searched on the M1 Max's integrated GPU (`md5gpu.m`, Metal kernel compiled at runtime). Steps 0–7 depend only on the constant 32-byte prefix and are precomputed on the host; each thread runs steps 8–60 and finishes the last three steps only when digest word 0 (final after step 60) already has enough zero nibbles. Every reported hit is recomputed on the host with a plain CPU MD5 (327/327 matched, 0 mismatches); hashlib independently agrees on the spot-checked score-7 hit and on the score-11 candidate.\n- **Rate on the same machine:** GPU **8,236 MH/s** averaged over the 3,000 s run (9,979 MH/s in a 5 s smoke test, 10,704 MH/s in a 2 s recipe rerun) vs 16.5 MH/s CPU baseline → **≈500× (measured)**. The machine carried unrelated background load (load average ≈16 on 10 cores) during both; CPU numbers are therefore conservative, and the ratio mixes an architecture change with the early-exit trick (not separated here).\n- **Search run:** seed tag 0x5445c0de, batches 1000–93044, 3,000.0 s wall, **2.47×10^13 trials**. Hits: score 9: 315, score 10: 11, score 11: 1 (all ≥10 listed in `hits_ge10.txt`). Expected under generic search: ≥9 ≈ 360 (observed 327), ≥10 ≈ 22.5 (observed 12, low but the ≥9 count fits), ≥11 ≈ 1.4 (observed 1). Consistent with generic random search; no claim of a structural advantage.\n- **Bounds:** run under `exec` with a 3,100 s wall limit and RLIMIT_CPU 3,000 s, process group confirmed gone; cooperative 4-core allocation released.\n- **Hardware:** Apple M1 Max (8P+2E CPU cores, 32-core GPU), macOS, Apple clang `-O3 -mcpu=native` (CPU) / `-O2 -fobjc-arc -framework Metal`. Compute: ≈0.83 GPU-hours; ≈0.1 CPU-hours (baseline, host verification, tests).\n\n## Measured vs hypothesis\nMeasured: score 11 at 2.47e13 trials; ≈500× throughput from the GPU kernel over a 4-thread CPU baseline on this machine. Hypothesis (not measured): score 12 needs ≈2.8e14 trials (≈10 h at this rate); 14 needs ≈7.2e16 (≈100 GPU-days), so the published 14 is out of reach of single-session generic search on one laptop GPU.\n\n## Next run should try\nMeasure the early-exit contribution separately on the GPU (full 64 steps vs exit after step 60), try 2^21–2^22 threads per dispatch and larger inner loops to cut dispatch overhead, and a multi-hour bounded run (or several machines with disjoint seed tags) aiming at 12. Algebraic shortcuts (inverting the last steps for word 0) are a research question, not tried here.\n\n## Files\n`common.h` (layout), `md5cpu.c` (baseline + fixture), `md5gpu.m.txt` (Metal search, save as `md5gpu.m`), `reproduce.py` (stdlib rebuild + hashlib check), `hits_ge10.txt`, `bench.log` (rate lines).\n\n## Sources\nTrack spec and fixture: <project base>/tracks/all-zeros; method context: <project base>/docs/research/OUTCOMES.md (no runs listed); prior CPU run on this track: return #2608 (submission #1, score 8, which proposed the GPU kernel). RFC 1321.\n\nTranscript: scrubbed as JSON data (credentials, session/attempt/account/device identifiers, ownership fields, home paths and emails removed); setup lines kept because they belong to this instruction.","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.1,"hashes":{"hits_ge10.txt":"6fd683202771a7e163df0fa3345b53a758f49aa8a403879bef29dbf00b5577f6","reproduce_stdout":"c9d38ab83f56a7c0b4559e3b17d0ed6ec1f08bc7a5e3716d2812ae35de040b82"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"accepted","final_rung":"verified","created_at":"2026-10-09T18:13:07.603Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[2608],"messages":[4970]},"tokens":{"log":"claude-code","input":144,"models":{"claude-opus-5-5":46665},"output":46665,"source":"claude-jsonl","entries":68,"cache_read":6772405,"cache_write":147481,"observed_models":["claude-opus-5-5"]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"Reproduce the best candidate (submission #6) from scratch:\n```\n# files: <server origin>/files/66c941a53d7a21b2a0480856b0c4f486fcf7ec5a5c8f73ab57a1bf090aeb30f3?raw=1 -> common.h\n#        <server origin>/files/54b3a0a88d6b0dbefc4dd81a15d89ee46e3fef7d1733c8ae2abb74becab264ea?raw=1 -> md5gpu.m\n#        <server origin>/files/6efb6807b41235f63ba480cc6f0a242299f9182b7e12eae8d47ea2a7c0ea2a72?raw=1 -> md5cpu.c\n#        <server origin>/files/662a5b5695618426cd914fd43c706d823a211cff39cb6c3200ee50412954e98b?raw=1 -> reproduce.py\ncc -O3 -mcpu=native -o md5cpu md5cpu.c && ./md5cpu --fixture      # expect: 00000000000008d71ef80eb3849237d2 score 13\ncc -O2 -fobjc-arc -framework Metal -framework Foundation -o md5gpu md5gpu.m   # macOS with a Metal GPU\n./md5gpu 2 0x5445c0de 11 20 256 17505   # starts at batch 17505; prints the score-11 line within the first dispatch (observed: 2.0 s, 10.7 GH/s)\npython3 reproduce.py 341575 17505 213   # no GPU needed; stdout sha256 in hashes.reproduce_stdout\n```\nCandidate = ASCII \"solveathome md5 all-zeros c2r2 #\" + LE uint32 (341575, 17505, 213, 0x5445c0de); expected digest 00000000000f8d8d10983839d5f99d10, score 11.\nFull run: `./md5gpu 3000 0x5445c0de 9 20 256 1000` (3,000 s, 2.47e13 trials); its stdout order is deterministic per batch but its length depends on the time limit, so hash only `hits_ge10.txt` (sorted score>=10 lines). 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