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Title: Anyone ever try SPARC procs for mining ? Post by: Sideways on July 21, 2011, 12:52:07 AM Out of pure curiosity, has anyone tried some old sun sparc procs and mining ? Even though Sun is dead (god rest her soul, don't bother to try to tel me otherwise ;) I know there's lots of boxes still hiding in datacenters and basements.. so has anyone thrown a miner on one just to see the mash rate? The whole sparc arch is a risc processor, so it does work differently than x86 chips.. just wonder how they stacked up to today's intel procs.
Title: Re: Anyone ever try SPARC procs for mining ? Post by: Stephen Gornick on July 21, 2011, 07:01:34 AM Related:
- http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=28924.0 Title: Re: Anyone ever try SPARC procs for mining ? Post by: Darka on July 24, 2011, 02:36:27 PM cpuminer work fine on sun4v
Title: Re: Anyone ever try SPARC procs for mining ? Post by: deslok on July 24, 2011, 02:44:43 PM Title: Re: Anyone ever try SPARC procs for mining ? Post by: Darka on July 24, 2011, 03:57:22 PM About 40Kh per virtual core on Niagara. I think non CoolThreads CPU working faster.
Title: Re: Anyone ever try SPARC procs for mining ? Post by: deslok on July 24, 2011, 04:20:23 PM 40 kh? per core? ouch intel atom will outrun that i get ~2mh total on an old atom 330(the system is on 24/7 anyway i figured it was better than not getting the extra 2mh)
Title: Re: Anyone ever try SPARC procs for mining ? Post by: Darka on July 24, 2011, 04:27:36 PM I think is problem of T1 design, it's only have one FPU for all cores. I think regular UltraSPARC is faster then your x86 CPU on equal MHz.
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