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Title: Can this be used for Bitcoin mining? Post by: Saturn7 on October 10, 2012, 12:54:29 PM http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone?ref=home_popular (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone?ref=home_popular)
50 GFLOPS/Watt, 64 cores it comes with openCL drivers so in theory it should work no? Title: Re: Can this be used for Bitcoin mining? Post by: Graet on October 10, 2012, 01:03:19 PM possibly, at about the speed of 64 cpus
a 7970 has 2048 stream processors operating in parallel FLOPS means nothing in Bitcoin mining - sorry :) Title: Re: Can this be used for Bitcoin mining? Post by: thepwnorbpwnd on October 10, 2012, 01:10:26 PM Not likely. +1 to file compression or decoding/encoding power.
Title: Re: Can this be used for Bitcoin mining? Post by: Zeek_W on October 14, 2012, 01:21:28 AM Theres some more indepth talk here about it
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=115021.0 Title: Re: Can this be used for Bitcoin mining? Post by: Stephen Gornick on October 27, 2012, 07:43:02 PM The $750K goal on Kickstarter was reached (and now over $850K):
- http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/99-raspberry-pi-sized-supercomputer-hits-kickstarter-goal Title: Re: Can this be used for Bitcoin mining? Post by: ChipGeek on October 29, 2012, 10:20:26 PM From another thread:
I do not believe this will be at all useful for mining. 16 processors at 700MHz each = roughly the same as 4 processors at 2800MHz (2.8GHz) which is any modern PC CPU. So would you be excited about a new quad core CPU running at 2.8GHz from Intel or AMD? I certainly would not be. So it's just as useful as CPU mining. If that gets you excited, go for it. |