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Title: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 05, 2019, 06:50:28 PM HI Everyone, Agilmine is back! ;)
After months of planning and hardworking, We are happy to announce that today we have officially launched the Ultraminer FPGA miner campaign on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo! As some of you may know we are bunch of developers/hobbyists who had previously built a prototype fpga universal miner board named "Agilmine A1" which had already been sent to some forum members for verification. People loved its simplicity, easy setup and power efficiency. This time we are going to upgrade the design with Xilinx UltraScale+ Kintex KU3P which is from Xilinx's top-line 16nm process chip family. This is the highest performed and most power efficient FPGA series you can find in the market. You should expect 1.5-2x performance boost than Agilmine A1 prototype at about the same power consumption (20-25w). That is about 1.5x hash performance than a GPU, at only 1/10 of GPU's power consumption. Indiegogo pre-order price of UltraMiner FPGA: $399 Please do check out our campaign page and website see if you like to support, or pre-order! If we didn't meet the goal before campaign ends or we won't deliver, you will receive full refund from Indiegogo. https://igg.me/at/ultraminer (https://igg.me/at/ultraminer) * Please be noted that since "Crypto" is prohibited on Indiegogo (or any other crowdfunding platforms..). We are only allowed to campaign for a generic FPGA dev board there * The information regarding cryptocurrency mining, including the estimated hashrate and power consumption can be found on our website page www.agilmine.com (http://www.agilmine.com) Estimated hashrate table: https://www.agilmine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Mining_performance_table_0213.png All the mining algorithm bitstream files will be free to download, 0 dev fee, and we will provide some open source design framework to boost the 3rd party algorithm development on ultraminer platform. Our mission is to make a FPGA miner that is accessible and affordable to every miner/enthusiast/hobbyist in the crypto community, which in our believe would benefit the decentralization and hence the long term prosperity and diversity of cryptocurrency industry. Our plan is to deliver this board in 3 months! We have already locked down the price terms with Xilinx USA, and arranged the manufacturing factories in China and USA to build this miner for you. If you have specific questions or concerns please do let us know! Thank you for the time! We are here to answer questions and concerns. You can reach us via email and on discord as well. dev@agilmine.com Discord: https://discord.gg/R36gzXM Mailist Product Update: http://eepurl.com/dMfjhQ Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: rgsnedds on February 05, 2019, 06:55:08 PM And will you offer programming service on these please ?
cost to programme a single gate? cost to programme two algos? cost to programme multiple algos? Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 05, 2019, 07:03:16 PM And will you offer programming service on these please ? cost to programme a single gate? cost to programme two algos? cost to programme multiple algos? we will be providing free mining algorithms for the ones listed on the table, when the fpga ships.. our priority will be to deliver the ultraminer fpga board to our customers, so before that happens we probably have no time working on 3rd party programming contract. thanks. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: rgsnedds on February 05, 2019, 07:27:02 PM And will you offer programming service on these please ? cost to programme a single gate? cost to programme two algos? cost to programme multiple algos? we will be providing free mining algorithms for the ones listed on the table, when the fpga ships.. our priority will be to deliver the ultraminer fpga board to our customers, so before that happens we probably have no time working on 3rd party programming contract. thanks. free? you know when someones says.. it looks too good to be true..? and there will be no recourse for buyers if you don't ship, because it's indiegogo. seems like something "too good to be true" Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 05, 2019, 07:46:00 PM And will you offer programming service on these please ? cost to programme a single gate? cost to programme two algos? cost to programme multiple algos? we will be providing free mining algorithms for the ones listed on the table, when the fpga ships.. our priority will be to deliver the ultraminer fpga board to our customers, so before that happens we probably have no time working on 3rd party programming contract. thanks. free? you know when someones says.. it looks too good to be true..? and there will be no recourse for buyers if you don't ship, because it's indiegogo. seems like something "too good to be true" we have already had many mining algorithms coded in our spare time, matter of fact, if you check my previous threads philipma1957 had already verified the functionality on our A1 fpga board. it wouldn't be costly for us to populate them and share with customers. the real cost is the hardware, and to be able to sell enough boards so xilinx can provide us the fpga chips at the desired low price. xilinx usa can provide a disclaimer if necessary. if we don't deliver, me myself and my team will still be held responsible for what had happened, we keep everything open and nowhere to hide. there is always risks as we have stated in the campaign page as well. but we have been doing this for years, we deem it is low risk. Thanks Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: rgsnedds on February 05, 2019, 08:46:14 PM And will you offer programming service on these please ? cost to programme a single gate? cost to programme two algos? cost to programme multiple algos? we will be providing free mining algorithms for the ones listed on the table, when the fpga ships.. our priority will be to deliver the ultraminer fpga board to our customers, so before that happens we probably have no time working on 3rd party programming contract. thanks. free? you know when someones says.. it looks too good to be true..? and there will be no recourse for buyers if you don't ship, because it's indiegogo. seems like something "too good to be true" we have already had many mining algorithms coded in our spare time, matter of fact, if you check my previous threads philipma1957 had already verified the functionality on our A1 fpga board. it wouldn't be costly for us to populate them and share with customers. the real cost is the hardware, and to be able to sell enough boards so xilinx can provide us the fpga chips at the desired low price. xilinx usa can provide a disclaimer if necessary. if we don't deliver, me myself and my team will still be held responsible for what had happened, we keep everything open and nowhere to hide. there is always risks as we have stated in the campaign page as well. but we have been doing this for years, we deem it is low risk. Thanks I've known phil for many years from previous mining efforts together, he's a good bloke, perhaps you can point him towards this thread to verify the sample unit. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 05, 2019, 11:05:14 PM And will you offer programming service on these please ? cost to programme a single gate? cost to programme two algos? cost to programme multiple algos? we will be providing free mining algorithms for the ones listed on the table, when the fpga ships.. our priority will be to deliver the ultraminer fpga board to our customers, so before that happens we probably have no time working on 3rd party programming contract. thanks. free? you know when someones says.. it looks too good to be true..? and there will be no recourse for buyers if you don't ship, because it's indiegogo. seems like something "too good to be true" we have already had many mining algorithms coded in our spare time, matter of fact, if you check my previous threads philipma1957 had already verified the functionality on our A1 fpga board. it wouldn't be costly for us to populate them and share with customers. the real cost is the hardware, and to be able to sell enough boards so xilinx can provide us the fpga chips at the desired low price. xilinx usa can provide a disclaimer if necessary. if we don't deliver, me myself and my team will still be held responsible for what had happened, we keep everything open and nowhere to hide. there is always risks as we have stated in the campaign page as well. but we have been doing this for years, we deem it is low risk. Thanks I've known phil for many years from previous mining efforts together, he's a good bloke, perhaps you can point him towards this thread to verify the sample unit. yes i pinged him hope he will come here ;) here are the videos he shared last time, it is also on our webpage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yle13b1kgWo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bet2aRAhvw Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: philipma1957 on February 05, 2019, 11:05:52 PM just got a pm
here it is in its entirety . I normally keep pm's private but this is an exception> I did a screen shot to keep it not doctored. I have tested a sample of the older gear and I am willing to try and help with this one. First testing a sample and second trying some kind of escrow setup. If all goes well. I will not be screenshotting every single pm or email for clarity but I always try to be as transparent as I can be. FPGA's for the most part have had issues coming to market we all know the squirrel acorn mess and there was another scammer out there. So lets see if we can do this better then they did. https://i.imgur.com/R6gjzeE.png Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 05, 2019, 11:32:09 PM great thanks always appreciate reviewer, we understand the frustration and we want to keep it open and transparent as well. that's one reason why we chose a crowdfunding platform for this project.
just got a pm here it is in its entirety . I normally keep pm's private but this is an exception> I did a screen shot to keep it not doctored. I have tested a sample of the older gear and I am willing to try and help with this one. First testing a sample and second trying some kind of escrow setup. If all goes well. I will not be screenshotting every single pm or email for clarity but I always try to be as transparent as I can be. FPGA's for the most part have had issues coming to market we all know the squirrel acorn mess and there was another scammer out there. So lets see if we can do this better then they did. https://i.imgur.com/R6gjzeE.png Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: bittawm on February 06, 2019, 04:08:19 AM see here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089544.new#new
these guys are real and have produced real equipment Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: RiceMiner69 on February 06, 2019, 04:09:15 AM Will this one have the ability to mine memory intensive algos???
Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 06, 2019, 03:45:33 PM Will this one have the ability to mine memory intensive algos??? HI that really depends on how much memory it uses, there is in-chip block RAM to be used for mining, if not big enough then the mining efficiency will be dictated by the installed DDR4 memory on board. thanks. Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: rgsnedds on February 06, 2019, 04:39:20 PM just got a pm here it is in its entirety . I normally keep pm's private but this is an exception> I did a screen shot to keep it not doctored. I have tested a sample of the older gear and I am willing to try and help with this one. First testing a sample and second trying some kind of escrow setup. If all goes well. I will not be screenshotting every single pm or email for clarity but I always try to be as transparent as I can be. FPGA's for the most part have had issues coming to market we all know the squirrel acorn mess and there was another scammer out there. So lets see if we can do this better then they did. https://i.imgur.com/R6gjzeE.png thanks Phil, just be careful mate, you wouldn't be the first to have received a sample and shilled a non-existent hardware. I, for one, will wait to see retail reviews before i part with any money whatsoever. But yeah, thanks for clarifying. Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 06, 2019, 05:22:38 PM I understand all the skepticism, I hope the community understands that the goal of this crowdfunding campaign is to secure the minimal sales in order to cover the cost of sampling and manufacturing, as well as to secure the price terms we have negotiated with fpga chip supplier.
essentially, to kick start it. as we are individual developers and not taking any external fund or investment, and we'd like to make it a community project. we don't intend to take any profit out of it, given the high cost of making them. BTW, what is the other scammer you were referring to? just got a pm here it is in its entirety . I normally keep pm's private but this is an exception> I did a screen shot to keep it not doctored. I have tested a sample of the older gear and I am willing to try and help with this one. First testing a sample and second trying some kind of escrow setup. If all goes well. I will not be screenshotting every single pm or email for clarity but I always try to be as transparent as I can be. FPGA's for the most part have had issues coming to market we all know the squirrel acorn mess and there was another scammer out there. So lets see if we can do this better then they did. thanks Phil, just be careful mate, you wouldn't be the first to have received a sample and shilled a non-existent hardware. I, for one, will wait to see retail reviews before i part with any money whatsoever. But yeah, thanks for clarifying. Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: rgsnedds on February 06, 2019, 06:56:20 PM BTW, what is the other scammer you were referring to? there have been a few down the years... names that won't be remembered, and some that will. Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: xs.over on February 06, 2019, 11:23:49 PM One more "crypto mining" FPGA board which will never ROI. lyra2z is already decimated by bcu1525 and private chinese fpga farms. The last one coin with notable emission GINcoin is forking withing near week or so. 6Mh/s on Phi2 algo earns 5 to 15 cents per day with electricity at 10 cents/KW. Even old cheaply $70-100 rx480/580 Polaris hash the same 6Mh/s on this algorithm. Lyra2rev3. Current profit is 20 cents per day. This is 5+ years payback period. old cheaply $70 rx470/570 Polaris hash almost the same ~45Mh/s with barely OC and ASM optimized miner. Tribus, Keccak, 0xbtc, XDAG algos are dead if speaking in terms of profit No one public available fpga board with a public bitstream can ROI mining cryptocurrencies, especially in current market state. I want to repeat: mainly only miming hardware manufacturers and hardware resellers earn money in crypto mining sphere. Currently crytpomining is a zero-sum game, where miners will always lose, doesn't matter what kind of specialized hardware you are using : ASICs, FPGA. Take a look at bcu1525, Acorn owners. They all screwed, there are no chance that they'll be able to payback investments even within 3 years period Please don't call me overly pessimistic. I'm a realist who is familiar with math Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 07, 2019, 02:52:24 AM we all know it is a crappy market now, but the message you are trying to convey is that all miners should just quit mining.
will FPGA save it all? no, it is just another tool in the box, it stands out due to its easy configuration and power efficiency and low heat, compared to the "old cheaply" gpu mining. this fpga chip is the best you can find in the market, in terms of performance per watt/per dollar. we think it is pretty cool to have for mining that's why we are making them, but if you are talking about ROI, i don't think gpu and asic are getting anywhere better. One more "crypto mining" FPGA board which will never ROI. lyra2z is already decimated by bcu1525 and private chinese fpga farms. The last one coin with notable emission GINcoin is forking withing near week or so. 6Mh/s on Phi2 algo earns 5 to 15 cents per day with electricity at 10 cents/KW. Even old cheapy $70-100 rx480/580 Polaris hash the same 6Mh/s on this algorithm. Lyra2rev3. Current profit is 20 cents per day. This is 5+ years payback period. old cheapy $70-100 rx480/580 Polaris hash almost the same ~45Mh/s with barely OC and ASM optimized miner. Tribus, Keccak, 0xbtc, XDAG algos are dead if speaking in terms of profit No one public available fpga board with a public bitstream can ROI mining cryptocurrencies, especially in current market state. I want to repeat: mainly only miming hardware manufacturers and hardware resellers earn money in crypto mining sphere. Currently crytpomining is a zero-sum game, where miners will always lose, doesn't matter what kind of specialized hardware you are using : ASICs, FPGA. Take a look at bcu1525, Acorn owners. They all screwed, there are no chance that they'll be able to payback investments even within 3 years period Please don't call me overly pessimistic. I'm a realist who is familiar with math Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: nsummy on February 07, 2019, 06:09:36 AM My 2 cents: I think its great that something like this is finally being sold on a platform with some accountability.
Also is this Coralville, IA? I live in Iowa City 8) Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: Globalminingcorp on February 07, 2019, 08:26:19 AM Interesting card, will keep my eye on this and maybe order one ;)
Two questions after looking through the specifications: 1. Simple USB only connection for mining, no need to mess with PCIe What do you mean? Does it need to be put in a PCIe slot or not? 2. DDR4 260 pin SODIMM socket (170Gb/s max bandwidth, 32GB max capacity) Is any ram included or do we need to add it to the card? Thanks! Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 07, 2019, 03:51:52 PM My 2 cents: I think its great that something like this is finally being sold on a platform with some accountability. Also is this Coralville, IA? I live in Iowa City 8) Thanks, that's what we want to have a open project, with real developers, everyone can see, talk about, and contribute to, and hopefully to build a community and more developers are willing to write fpga code for mining. we know there are many custom-made, secret fpga miners in China, but i would say 99.9% of them are using 7 series 28nm process xilinx fpga chips, which is 2 generation older than the xilinx 16nm ultrascale+ fpga we intend to use. In order to use the latest xilinx chip, you need to present a strong case to the xilinx manufacturer, and that's what we have done in the past month. the purpose of the campaign is to get enough orders so we can do mass production, i think 500 is the minimal below which we would be losing money making any. but we are going to order some sample parts and build some for ourselves anyway. and Good to know another Iowan, 2 of us work in CR, and 1 is in Oregon managing the production, where for sure you can find more factories than here in Iowa.. Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 07, 2019, 03:54:24 PM 1. For mining, you don't; it is reserved for FPGA hobbyist to use it in "normal" application
2. The RAM is not included, depending on the application, you may chose different mem card (size, speed) Note that our current mining algos don't need external memory Interesting card, will keep my eye on this and maybe order one ;) Two questions after looking through the specifications: 1. Simple USB only connection for mining, no need to mess with PCIe What do you mean? Does it need to be put in a PCIe slot or not? 2. DDR4 260 pin SODIMM socket (170Gb/s max bandwidth, 32GB max capacity) Is any ram included or do we need to add it to the card? Thanks! Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: bswilmington on February 08, 2019, 02:49:41 AM Any chance you will add support for Grin before all the ASICs hit?
Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: klintay on February 08, 2019, 07:52:02 AM Awesome and ambitious project, I am watching closely.
Wish you all the best with the indigogo crowd fund. Any chance you will add support for Grin before all the ASICs hit? GRIN would be a great idea but perhaps too soon Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: Globalminingcorp on February 08, 2019, 08:36:08 AM 1. For mining, you don't; it is reserved for FPGA hobbyist to use it in "normal" application 2. The RAM is not included, depending on the application, you may chose different mem card (size, speed) Note that our current mining algos don't need external memory Interesting card, will keep my eye on this and maybe order one ;) Two questions after looking through the specifications: 1. Simple USB only connection for mining, no need to mess with PCIe What do you mean? Does it need to be put in a PCIe slot or not? 2. DDR4 260 pin SODIMM socket (170Gb/s max bandwidth, 32GB max capacity) Is any ram included or do we need to add it to the card? Thanks! Thanks for the reply. Do we still use the PCIe to connect to the computer / mining rig (like we do with videocards)? Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: klintay on February 08, 2019, 10:00:18 AM 1. For mining, you don't; it is reserved for FPGA hobbyist to use it in "normal" application 2. The RAM is not included, depending on the application, you may chose different mem card (size, speed) Note that our current mining algos don't need external memory Interesting card, will keep my eye on this and maybe order one ;) Two questions after looking through the specifications: 1. Simple USB only connection for mining, no need to mess with PCIe What do you mean? Does it need to be put in a PCIe slot or not? 2. DDR4 260 pin SODIMM socket (170Gb/s max bandwidth, 32GB max capacity) Is any ram included or do we need to add it to the card? Thanks! Thanks for the reply. Do we still use the PCIe to connect to the computer / mining rig (like we do with videocards)? No PCI-E, only USB Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 08, 2019, 04:47:51 PM Thanks! ;D
i hope this campaign can at least melt some ice, as i know people got really frustrated by what had happened. we are ordering small quantity parts to make prototype boards. will keep everyone updated with progress Awesome and ambitious project, I am watching closely. Wish you all the best with the indigogo crowd fund. Any chance you will add support for Grin before all the ASICs hit? GRIN would be a great idea but perhaps too soon Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 08, 2019, 04:48:37 PM For mining, you don't need PCIe
Only the power and USB would be sufficient. thanks 1. For mining, you don't; it is reserved for FPGA hobbyist to use it in "normal" application 2. The RAM is not included, depending on the application, you may chose different mem card (size, speed) Note that our current mining algos don't need external memory Interesting card, will keep my eye on this and maybe order one ;) Two questions after looking through the specifications: 1. Simple USB only connection for mining, no need to mess with PCIe What do you mean? Does it need to be put in a PCIe slot or not? 2. DDR4 260 pin SODIMM socket (170Gb/s max bandwidth, 32GB max capacity) Is any ram included or do we need to add it to the card? Thanks! Thanks for the reply. Do we still use the PCIe to connect to the computer / mining rig (like we do with videocards)? Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: redmonski on February 08, 2019, 10:48:01 PM Regarding the hashrate table, are you referring to PascalCoin or Pascallite?
Because PascalCoin is no longer using Pascal/SHA256d algo. It might mislead people, thinking your hardware can mine PascalCoin. Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 08, 2019, 11:59:37 PM It is referring to Pascallite, sorry will have that updated. thanks.
Regarding the hashrate table, are you referring to PascalCoin or Pascallite? Because PascalCoin is no longer using Pascal/SHA256d algo. It might mislead people, thinking your hardware can mine PascalCoin. Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: provenceday on February 10, 2019, 03:48:29 AM what's the difference between bcu1525 ?
how many SRAM on your FPGA? thanks! Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 10, 2019, 02:51:44 PM BUC1525 uses the low power version of VU9P fpga chip, we use KU3P, both are from the same 16nm Ultrascale+ product line, the major difference between is the size. in case of mining the hw resource matters the most is the system logic cell count. BUC1525 is 7 times larger than ours, ideally if fully utilized and optimized it should mine 7 times faster than ours. in reality it is almost impossible to fully optimize a bitstream design with 100% utilization of the fpga hw resource of the size of vu9p, so i bet a lot of waste and underclock going on there. so i estimate probably 5 times faster is more realistic...
do you mean block RAM? i attached this hw spec comparison, hope it helps! thanks https://i.imgur.com/CrRodoF.png another difference i want to mention is that our board comes with the FREE vivado (bitstream compiler) license from xilinx, so you don't have to pay thousands of dollars to become a mining algorithm developer! we hope this can boost the 3rd party algo development and further benefit the community. we'd be happy to open source some bitstream design to support the process. https://www.xilinx.com/content/dam/xilinx/Image/63356-1_201612160222006140.jpg what's the difference between bcu1525 ? how many SRAM on your FPGA? thanks! Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 10, 2019, 03:11:34 PM 2/9 Updates:
We are in the process of ordering small quantity of FPGA chips to build a batch of UltraMiner demo boards for testing, verification and early review. And good news! In order to support our development, Xilinx has offered to loan us UltraScale+ Kintex Evaluation Boards for free! (well, after they declined to give us further discount on the sample parts ordered...) These are $3K+ toys it would be of great help to expedite our bitstream development and testing! Hope we don't burn it! Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: Iamtutut on February 12, 2019, 02:40:21 PM Will it work with win 10?
Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: Aureliusy on February 12, 2019, 03:38:35 PM You can update your info chart
Vertcoin has been updated to Lyra2rev3 so it will not work on your FGPA? on Feb 1 https://medium.com/vertcoin-blog/vertcoin-development-update-january-2019-8dc39f6df210 and will be later updated to Verthash. In order to be economically mine able by GPU 's ONLY (when no bear market). Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: Metroid on February 12, 2019, 04:10:33 PM The market as it is makes no sense to scam people. Scammers like when everything is too positive like it was in the end of 2017. Scamming people now is like committing suicide.
Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 12, 2019, 05:41:07 PM Will it work with win 10? yes we have tested mainly on win 10 PC, but it works also on Mac and Linux. the host sw is easily portable. Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 12, 2019, 05:42:21 PM Thanks i will look into it
You can update your info chart Vertcoin has been updated to Lyra2rev3 so it will not work on your FGPA? on Feb 1 https://medium.com/vertcoin-blog/vertcoin-development-update-january-2019-8dc39f6df210 and will be later updated to Verthash. In order to be economically mine able by GPU 's ONLY (when no bear market). Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 21, 2019, 05:15:44 PM Some good news! We have successfully secured initial fund from a strategic partner to launch the project and build first batch of UltraMiner FPGA prototype boards. We will be sharing the development progress in this thread and in discord channel as well.
Our indiegogo campaign is still going, I strongly encourage you to check it out and support us if possible, remember, we set the fixed goal, so if we don't meet the set goal you will get FULL refund from indiegogo platform. but we will send special discount to all the early contributors next time when we re-launch the campaign on indiegogo or crowd source once demo boards are made! for details about the goal refund, please check out this page: https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/articles/205138007-Choose-Your-Funding-Type-Can-I-Keep-My-Money- Thanks Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: klintay on February 21, 2019, 05:26:29 PM Some good news! We have successfully secured initial fund from a strategic partner to launch the project and build first batch of UltraMiner FPGA prototype boards. We will be sharing the development progress in this thread and in discord channel as well. Our indiegogo campaign is still going, I strongly encourage you to check it out and support us if possible, remember, we set the fixed goal, so if we don't meet the set goal you will get FULL refund from indiegogo platform. but we will send special discount to all the early contributors next time when we re-launch the campaign on indiegogo or crowd source once demo boards are made! for details about the goal refund, please check out this page: https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/articles/205138007-Choose-Your-Funding-Type-Can-I-Keep-My-Money- Thanks congratulations! looking forward to seeing your product develop now :) :D :D :D :D Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: yrk1957 on February 21, 2019, 11:48:00 PM Can you explain why one would choose Net or Net advanced versions? And which alogos will work on each of those?
Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 22, 2019, 04:05:18 PM Can you explain why one would choose Net or Net advanced versions? And which alogos will work on each of those? the Net and Net advanced versions are for FPGA hobbyists and developers we don't plan to develop mining algorithms on them... thanks. Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on February 22, 2019, 04:14:58 PM Understood, we are working hard to shorten the pre-sale period and remove most uncertainties beforehand by building the demo prototype boards and sort out the production details.
also we consider launch it on the crowd supply in the future which is a more reliable platform to many customers. the reason for doing pre-sale, is that we need enough volume to bring down the cost, in order to sell the board at the low price. so we set the goal to the the lowest quantity we can make this economically, if not met, then you will get full refund from the platform. HI Everyone, Agilmine is back! ;) After months of planning and hardworking, We are happy to announce that today we have officially launched the Ultraminer FPGA miner campaign on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo! As some of you may know we are bunch of developers/hobbyists who had previously built a prototype fpga universal miner board named "Agilmine A1" which had already been sent to some forum members for verification. People loved its simplicity, easy setup and power efficiency. This time we are going to upgrade the design with Xilinx UltraScale+ Kintex KU3P which is from Xilinx's top-line 16nm process chip family. This is the highest performed and most power efficient FPGA series you can find in the market. You should expect 1.5-2x performance boost than Agilmine A1 prototype at about the same power consumption (20-25w). That is about 1.5x hash performance than a GPU, at only 1/10 of GPU's power consumption. Indiegogo pre-order price of UltraMiner FPGA: $399 Please do check out our campaign page and website see if you like to support, or pre-order! If we didn't meet the goal before campaign ends or we won't deliver, you will receive full refund from Indiegogo. https://igg.me/at/ultraminer (https://igg.me/at/ultraminer) * Please be noted that since "Crypto" is prohibited on Indiegogo (or any other crowdfunding platforms..). We are only allowed to campaign for a generic FPGA dev board there * The information regarding cryptocurrency mining, including the estimated hashrate and power consumption can be found on our website page www.agilmine.com (http://www.agilmine.com) Estimated hashrate table: https://www.agilmine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Mining_performance_table_0213.png All the mining algorithm bitstream files will be free to download, 0 dev fee, and we will provide some open source design framework to boost the 3rd party algorithm development on ultraminer platform. Our mission is to make a FPGA miner that is accessible and affordable to every miner/enthusiast/hobbyist in the crypto community, which in our believe would benefit the decentralization and hence the long term prosperity and diversity of cryptocurrency industry. Our plan is to deliver this board in 3 months! We have already locked down the price terms with Xilinx USA, and arranged the manufacturing factories in China and USA to build this miner for you. If you have specific questions or concerns please do let us know! Thank you for the time! We are here to answer questions and concerns. You can reach us via email and on discord as well. dev@agilmine.com Discord: https://discord.gg/R36gzXM Mailist Product Update: http://[Suspicious link removed]/dMfjhQ In the current market, I personally think we had better keep suspicious about pre-sale mentioned in the post. Pre-sale means that you who sale UltraMiner pass the risk to us buyers, which smay be irresponsible. Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on March 01, 2019, 04:54:19 AM 2/28 Update:
We have placed a order for 10 Xilinx FPGA sample parts to build the first batch of Ultraminer prototype boards! We also received a loaner KCU116 FPGA evaluation board from Xilinx, to be used for algorithm development, design reference and accurate power estimation. We have great work ahead of us! https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/479863446398173214/550902930950193162/unknown.png?width=538&height=676 Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: klintay on March 04, 2019, 11:15:08 AM 2/28 Update: We have placed a order for 10 Xilinx FPGA sample parts to build the first batch of Ultraminer prototype boards! We also received a loaner KCU116 FPGA evaluation board from Xilinx, to be used for algorithm development, design reference and accurate power estimation. We have great work ahead of us! https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/479863446398173214/550902930950193162/unknown.png?width=538&height=676 awesome! right on track :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: Globalminingcorp on March 04, 2019, 06:13:16 PM Im surprised so few people signed up for this card on indiego.
Did so many people get burned on previous fpga buys that everyone is now playing 'the waiting game'? Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on March 04, 2019, 07:37:54 PM Thanks!
2/28 Update: We have placed a order for 10 Xilinx FPGA sample parts to build the first batch of Ultraminer prototype boards! We also received a loaner KCU116 FPGA evaluation board from Xilinx, to be used for algorithm development, design reference and accurate power estimation. We have great work ahead of us! https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/479863446398173214/550902930950193162/unknown.png?width=538&height=676 awesome! right on track :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Title: Re: [ANN]UltraMiner FPGA is Live on Indiegogo! Post by: arm_race on March 04, 2019, 07:44:29 PM Thanks! We are on the original track for the demo board development and delivery. we hope more people will sign up once they see the live demo, then we will re-launch the campaign. we believe such a low cost/hobbyist friendly fpga dev board will not only benefit the crypto community, but many other fields as well.
Im surprised so few people signed up for this card on indiego. Did so many people get burned on previous fpga buys that everyone is now playing 'the waiting game'? |
