HashFast announces specs for new ASIC: 400GH/s

[lemonte]

I'm still here but I've got nothing to add since even I don't have hardware.

Join the club.

With no hardware nor communication from HF this thread is turning into an echo chamber filled with disgruntled customers (me included)

Would be great to get an update from the few folks with engineering samples (LukeJr & IceDrill) as to how the hardware performs.

As mentioned before, HF appears to be playing the silent game for now. (likely until the refund deadline has expired)

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Just me, or does that thing look pretty unstable?

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[fenwick]

I have found a lawyer who is willing to take our case, and help us get our BTC back, if we can cooperate.)

The name is Ray E. Gallo.

Anybody up for a conference call with Ray, at 3 p.m. today, PT ?
I'll post details later.

If you want the details, PM me your email address, where I can notify you.
(I can't notify you in PMs, because I can only send one PM in every 6 minutes, and only 5 PMs per hour.)

Also, for those who can't make it to today's call,
there will possibly be another conference call 16 hours later: 7 a.m. tomorrow, PT.

[Visesrion]

On the other hand I send tons of emails to John, Erin, Peter and directly to their general sales to confirm the shipping change I told them to do.

They said to me back in December that they need to confirm the shipping adress in 24 hours because they need to give this info to to their shipping company. I told them to confirm if they finally were able to do the change just to know where my BJ will go someday or if I wanted to sell it.

All that Erin did when reading the message was copy and paste it into a new email to the HF sales adding some lines to provide the users to spread any answer they post. Really nice customer support  

[-ck]

Would be great to get an update from the few folks with engineering samples (LukeJr & IceDrill) as to how the hardware performs.

I helped icedrill get his up and running and fixed a few obvious cgminer bugs that only showed up with real hardware especially when it misbehaved (the changes went into git master). He had a 3 module unit. One module was completely dead and had to be disconnected or it wouldn't fire up. One module would overheat and trip the code that disables it almost immediately unless it was run at 20% speed. The final module ran stable at ~420GH. There's only so much debugging I can do remotely on the code without the hardware myself, but there are still bugs in the code preventing it running stable for more than a few hours at a time, but that does appear to be software related. The one working module appears to work quite well at that speed. I know there were a couple of board revisions and I suspect there may have been one more (revision) in the works but not really sure which boards went to icedrill.

I doubt very much these early engineering samples hand assembled are a sign of what the final product will be like, but perhaps that last module is a better indicator. I don't know anything about his power consumption.

[Easy2Mine]

Thanks CK for the info

[minternj]

Would be great to get an update from the few folks with engineering samples (LukeJr & IceDrill) as to how the hardware performs.

I helped icedrill get his up and running and fixed a few obvious cgminer bugs that only showed up with real hardware especially when it misbehaved (the changes went into git master). He had a 3 module unit. One module was completely dead and had to be disconnected or it wouldn't fire up. One module would overheat and trip the code that disables it almost immediately unless it was run at 20% speed. The final module ran stable at ~420GH. There's only so much debugging I can do remotely on the code without the hardware myself, but there are still bugs in the code preventing it running stable for more than a few hours at a time, but that does appear to be software related. The one working module appears to work quite well at that speed. I know there were a couple of board revisions and I suspect there may have been one more (revision) in the works but not really sure which boards went to icedrill.

I doubt very much these early engineering samples hand assembled are a sign of what the final product will be like, but perhaps that last module is a better indicator. I don't know anything about his power consumption.

Hey looking through the code, the standard clock rate is 550MHz correct? Did you get to play to overclock them at all?

[Puppet]

I doubt very much these early engineering samples hand assembled are a sign of what the final product will be like, but perhaps that last module is a better indicator. I don't know anything about his power consumption.

Do you know anything about operating temperatures?

[defcon23]

Thank you for all this clarifications ckolivas 

[Minor Miner]

Would be great to get an update from the few folks with engineering samples (LukeJr & IceDrill) as to how the hardware performs.

I helped icedrill get his up and running and fixed a few obvious cgminer bugs that only showed up with real hardware especially when it misbehaved (the changes went into git master). He had a 3 module unit. One module was completely dead and had to be disconnected or it wouldn't fire up. One module would overheat and trip the code that disables it almost immediately unless it was run at 20% speed. The final module ran stable at ~420GH. There's only so much debugging I can do remotely on the code without the hardware myself, but there are still bugs in the code preventing it running stable for more than a few hours at a time, but that does appear to be software related. The one working module appears to work quite well at that speed. I know there were a couple of board revisions and I suspect there may have been one more (revision) in the works but not really sure which boards went to icedrill.

I doubt very much these early engineering samples hand assembled are a sign of what the final product will be like, but perhaps that last module is a better indicator. I don't know anything about his power consumption.

Luke?
Would you care to comment to the community on your unit.   You did inform us that HF was "shipping" and you would be receiving one, so I kind of expected you to update the investors that made these machines possible on what is going on with the product they are waiting for.
thanks.

[itod]

He had a 3 module unit. One module was completely dead and had to be disconnected or it wouldn't fire up. One module would overheat and trip the code that disables it almost immediately unless it was run at 20% speed. The final module ran stable at ~420GH.

This is worse than I thought. Now we know yet another reason for them not to ship - they certainly don't have a working product. Keep in mind that this unit was one of the last ones assembled just before the New years eve, so this was not the previous "experimental" product. This also explains why they've sent LukeJr unit to him in a hurry, in an insane hope there's something code realtead bfgminer can do which cgminer can't.

[jddebug]

What was the purpose in sending one to icedrill instead of conman? Seems if they are just prototypes with issues that developers would get them to perfect. Kinda useless to icedrill and the project even though icedrill may be a huge purchaser.

[Minor Miner]

Why was luke jr the only developer sent one?
I thought they were working with con and kano too, the whole community so to speak?   I actually did not know they were working with Luke since they stated Con's name several times and he actually posted here.
Since I know you are reading this thread HF, can you tells us if AMY did not boot these two machines up before the photo shoot of the boxing?

[ImI]

What was the purpose in sending one to icedrill instead of conman? Seems if they are just prototypes with issues that developers would get them to perfect. Kinda useless to icedrill and the project even though icedrill may be a huge purchaser.

most likely a legal thing. icedrill as a big customer could very well be a dangerous opponent when it comes to legal actions. its much harder to form such a unit out of single customers.

[-ck]

Why was luke jr the only developer sent one?
I thought they were working with con and kano too, the whole community so to speak?   I actually did not know they were working with Luke since they stated Con's name several times and he actually posted here.

I was and am being paid to write a driver for them. Why I didn't get one, and still don't have one? Circumhappenstance, and being in a different country. Why others got some before me? Um... NFI

[niothor]

Why was luke jr the only developer sent one?
I thought they were working with con and kano too, the whole community so to speak?   I actually did not know they were working with Luke since they stated Con's name several times and he actually posted here.

I was and am being paid to write a driver for them. Why I didn't get one, and still don't have one? Circumhappenstance, and being in a different country. Why others got some before me? Um... NFI

And you did get paid for your work? Or you're waiting for your payments ?
It might happen that, you're going to the be the only person seeing money from HF :0

[-ck]

I was and am being paid to write a driver for them.

And you did get paid for your work? Or you're waiting for your payments ?
It might happen that, you're going to the be the only person seeing money from HF :0

I have already been paid at regular intervals, though part of my deal was to receive hardware as a significant proportion of my payment so I'm not particularly happy about this situation either as you might imagine.

[-ck]

Hey looking through the code, the standard clock rate is 550MHz correct? Did you get to play to overclock them at all?

Correct. They ran at 79 degrees at (the default) 550MHz but I did not try higher speeds. I do not know if the cooling (which is water based) adjusts itself dynamically in any way for a target temperature or if that's as good as it gets so I cannot surmise how much scope there is for higher speeds with default cooling.

[BeepBeep2]

Searching "hashfast" now takes me to KnC   

[PuertoLibre]

I was and am being paid to write a driver for them.

And you did get paid for your work? Or you're waiting for your payments ?
It might happen that, you're going to the be the only person seeing money from HF :0

I have already been paid at regular intervals, though part of my deal was to receive hardware as a significant proportion of my payment so I'm not particularly happy about this situation either as you might imagine.

ckolivas

As always, your honesty is refreshing. I hope you finish getting paid.

(P.S. Did Kano ever buy you that "low resistance" golden keyboard for your programming?)

[cedivad]

Probably retargeting, but still interesting. Think at when hashfast.org will be in the first page