This sets up an Amazon cluster GPU instance for hash cracking with oclHashcat (CUDA). You must use the Ubuntu 12.04.x AMI for HVM. The most recent is Ubuntu Server 12.04.3 LTS for HVM Instances - ami-b93264d0.

hash-setup.sh

sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1204/x86_64/cuda-repo-ubuntu1204_5.5-0_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1204_5.5-0_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-settings nvidia-current-dev nvidia-modprobe cuda

cat >> ~/.profile <<END
export CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda-5.5
export CUDA_ROOT=/usr/local/cuda-5.5
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\${CUDA_HOME}/lib64:/usr/lib/nvidia-current/

export PATH=\${CUDA_HOME}/bin:\${PATH}
END
source ~/.profile

cuda-install-samples-5.5.sh  ~
cd ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-5.5_Samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery
make
./deviceQuery
cd ~

wget http://hashcat.net/files/oclHashcat-plus-0.15.7z
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
7z x oclHashcat-plus-0.15.7z

cd oclHashcat-plus-0.15
./cudaHashcat-plus64.bin --help