A Brief History of the
NIST NSRL Hashing Environment

September 2003

Doug White

douglas.white@nist.gov - www.nsrl.nist.gov

Overview

• Before NIST
• Why NIST
• The Monolith
• Distributed Computing
• Benchmarking
• NSRL:TNG
• More Benchmarking
• Installed Files
• Pure Perl
• Writing Modules
• Even More Benchmarking
• Lighting LAMPS
• Future Work

Disclaimer: Vendor and product names are used only to provide specific information about hardware, software and processes used, not as endorsements.