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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: hamdi on August 12, 2012, 11:46:35 PM



Title: rootbeer - java code on cuda gpus in seconds - miner coders....
Post by: hamdi on August 12, 2012, 11:46:35 PM
maybe interesting for miner coders...

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/12/0056228/rootbeer-gpu-compiler-lets-almost-any-java-code-run-on-the-gpu


Title: Re: rootbeer - java code on cuda gpus in seconds - miner coders....
Post by: notme on August 13, 2012, 12:05:30 AM
maybe interesting for miner coders...

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/12/0056228/rootbeer-gpu-compiler-lets-almost-any-java-code-run-on-the-gpu

Not really.... for one it compiles to CUDA, which is NVIDIA only.  Also, custom code is certain to be more efficient and the incentives are there to be as efficient as possible.


Title: Re: rootbeer - java code on cuda gpus in seconds - miner coders....
Post by: ElectricMucus on August 13, 2012, 07:34:15 AM
maybe interesting for miner coders...

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/12/0056228/rootbeer-gpu-compiler-lets-almost-any-java-code-run-on-the-gpu

Not really.... for one it compiles to CUDA, which is NVIDIA only.  Also, custom code is certain to be more efficient and the incentives are there to be as efficient as possible.
reading down the /. comments....

https://github.com/pcpratts/rootbeer1/tree/master/src/edu/syr/pcpratts/rootbeer/generate/opencl


Title: Re: rootbeer - java code on cuda gpus in seconds - miner coders....
Post by: scintill on August 15, 2012, 04:26:07 AM
I agree that this might not be very useful given the highly-optimized hand-written mining code we already have, but it could facilitate bootstrapping altcoins, tinkering with mining for fun, etc.


Title: Re: rootbeer - java code on cuda gpus in seconds - miner coders....
Post by: iCEBREAKER on July 19, 2013, 09:42:23 PM
Arise dead thread!

Primecoin needs CUDA/OCL to support large integers.

JAVA has java-math-biginteger.

Can rootbeer bridge this gap?

/necro


Title: Re: rootbeer - java code on cuda gpus in seconds - miner coders....
Post by: whitepaint0909 on July 19, 2013, 09:47:41 PM
Shit no kidding. This would be sick.