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Title: UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply! Post by: arm_race on August 07, 2019, 05:07:55 AM Hi, We have been working on building an FPGA miner with open source bitstream projects. For months we have been keeping head down trying to get the prototype work, finally we have some good news to share!
1. UltraMiner prototype board is Alive and ready to go production run pretty soon! 2. Our project has been reviewed and accepted to be launched on Crowd Supply platform Update: our campaign is alive now on Crowd supply! please check out the campaign page we have tons of updated information there https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga (https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga) First, we want to apologize for the lack of progress updates recently. We are a group of engineers who have been working on this project at night and during the weekend; We don’t want to bother you too much until knowing that the prototype is fully functional, and there is a safe channel that people can place order for it. Now I am happy that we have figured out both of the problems! Key Feature of UltraMiner FPGA: • Fast & Low power Equipped with the latest 16nm Xilinx UltraScale+ FPGA that is 2x faster than the old 7 series Kintex, and half the power consumption. • Affordable Xilinx UltraScale+ FPGA product line is premium priced. We want the lowest price from Xilinx so as to make a miner board is affordable to everyone. • Open source No private algorithm asking for license fee or closed project for selected group. Cryptocurrency means openness and transparency for everyone. We are committed to open source the bitstream files and mining host application. • Easy to use & Configurability You can configure everything, on the fly, underclock the FPGA or overclock it, undervolted to save power or overvolted to (burn) squeeze out more performance, up to you. GUI is provided allowing you to monitor the power consumption and temperature remotely. • Customer protection That’s why we want to bring Crowd Supply on board, who promises 100% success rate for delivery. They carefully screen every project application, and invest in time and effort with the builders to deliver what they promise. If your project isn’t up to snuff, you’re not getting on the site! We will be releasing more information soon. Thank you all for the patience and support! https://i.imgur.com/9b5h8KH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/iR78raG.png https://i.imgur.com/sbOf5rv.png Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: Turocik on August 07, 2019, 06:54:18 AM hi, is this the same that wasn't funded on Indiegogo?
Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on August 08, 2019, 02:41:35 AM hi, is this the same that wasn't funded on Indiegogo? Yes at that time we didn't have the prototype board ready, so the design was an uncertainty. we now have fully proven working demo board. in addition there are some issues with the kickstarter and indegogo as they are not crypto friendly- you are not allowed to promoting it as a cryptocurreny miner on their platform. that's the reason why we decided to work with crowdsupply, not only they welcome crypto, but they offer variety of professional services to make your product successful. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on August 08, 2019, 02:41:51 AM Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on August 13, 2019, 05:14:59 AM updated with pictures of the prototype board and different cooler configuration
Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: baboon1234 on August 13, 2019, 06:34:32 AM Maybe you get a channel in the FPGA discord set up?
https://discord.gg/Wm7UY5t Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: Ruso21 on August 13, 2019, 09:16:16 AM how you compare with F1 Mini???
Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: h311m4n on August 13, 2019, 01:14:49 PM I have been contemplating FPGAs for a while. They do seem like the logical successor of GPU rigs which, while available to everyone, are costly and not really energy efficient.
Maybe to early to tell, but what sort of price range would we be talking about? Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on August 13, 2019, 03:58:05 PM I have been contemplating FPGAs for a while. They do seem like the logical successor of GPU rigs which, while available to everyone, are costly and not really energy efficient. Maybe to early to tell, but what sort of price range would we be talking about? yes fpga is costly due to the low production volume (compared to asic chips) that's why we want to launch it on a popular platform to attract more general developers and students, at the same time serving the crypto community. we are trying to bring down the price to 350 USD, but the final price will be decided by Crowdsupply as they want to ensure the fulfillment. plus we will also open source the code, bitstream rtl, schematics we also to bring in more community involvement. xilinx will also ship the fpga with free development tool license, that would be a huge saving for developers as well. Thanks. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: legendster on August 13, 2019, 09:57:27 PM hi, is this the same that wasn't funded on Indiegogo? Yes at that time we didn't have the prototype board ready, so the design was an uncertainty. we now have fully proven working demo board. in addition there are some issues with the kickstarter and indegogo as they are not crypto friendly- you are not allowed to promoting it as a cryptocurreny miner on their platform. that's the reason why we decided to work with crowdsupply, not only they welcome crypto, but they offer variety of professional services to make your product successful. The reason they don't like crypto anymore is because of Butterfly labs. Also, FPGA boards are no longer economical at least the ones that I know of or the ones I think I could have fabricated for me locally. So yours must be some next level stuff. Where can I see what it mines, and other specs? I'd love to get a few for myself (if I can afford it). Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: h311m4n on August 14, 2019, 07:42:00 AM I have been contemplating FPGAs for a while. They do seem like the logical successor of GPU rigs which, while available to everyone, are costly and not really energy efficient. Maybe to early to tell, but what sort of price range would we be talking about? yes fpga is costly due to the low production volume (compared to asic chips) that's why we want to launch it on a popular platform to attract more general developers and students, at the same time serving the crypto community. we are trying to bring down the price to 350 USD, but the final price will be decided by Crowdsupply as they want to ensure the fulfillment. plus we will also open source the code, bitstream rtl, schematics we also to bring in more community involvement. xilinx will also ship the fpga with free development tool license, that would be a huge saving for developers as well. Thanks. 350$ seems like a very affordable target for most people, I hope you guys succeed! Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: Ruso21 on August 14, 2019, 10:41:06 AM I have been contemplating FPGAs for a while. They do seem like the logical successor of GPU rigs which, while available to everyone, are costly and not really energy efficient. Maybe to early to tell, but what sort of price range would we be talking about? yes fpga is costly due to the low production volume (compared to asic chips) that's why we want to launch it on a popular platform to attract more general developers and students, at the same time serving the crypto community. we are trying to bring down the price to 350 USD, but the final price will be decided by Crowdsupply as they want to ensure the fulfillment. plus we will also open source the code, bitstream rtl, schematics we also to bring in more community involvement. xilinx will also ship the fpga with free development tool license, that would be a huge saving for developers as well. Thanks. 350$ seems like a very affordable target for most people, I hope you guys succeed! That depends of the performance that gives, also need to see the quality and service. I was thinking on Blackminer but the performance is not good, hard to get ROI. I hope to see a good project on this. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: h311m4n on August 14, 2019, 01:59:38 PM I have been contemplating FPGAs for a while. They do seem like the logical successor of GPU rigs which, while available to everyone, are costly and not really energy efficient. Maybe to early to tell, but what sort of price range would we be talking about? yes fpga is costly due to the low production volume (compared to asic chips) that's why we want to launch it on a popular platform to attract more general developers and students, at the same time serving the crypto community. we are trying to bring down the price to 350 USD, but the final price will be decided by Crowdsupply as they want to ensure the fulfillment. plus we will also open source the code, bitstream rtl, schematics we also to bring in more community involvement. xilinx will also ship the fpga with free development tool license, that would be a huge saving for developers as well. Thanks. 350$ seems like a very affordable target for most people, I hope you guys succeed! That depends of the performance that gives, also need to see the quality and service. I was thinking on Blackminer but the performance is not good, hard to get ROI. I hope to see a good project on this. Yeah I was looking at the Blackminer mini for 180$, but hashrates are not really impressive. Also the algos/bitstreams available on FPGAs are still quite limited to more obscure ones I find. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on August 15, 2019, 04:59:45 AM hi, is this the same that wasn't funded on Indiegogo? Yes at that time we didn't have the prototype board ready, so the design was an uncertainty. we now have fully proven working demo board. in addition there are some issues with the kickstarter and indegogo as they are not crypto friendly- you are not allowed to promoting it as a cryptocurreny miner on their platform. that's the reason why we decided to work with crowdsupply, not only they welcome crypto, but they offer variety of professional services to make your product successful. The reason they don't like crypto anymore is because of Butterfly labs. Also, FPGA boards are no longer economical at least the ones that I know of or the ones I think I could have fabricated for me locally. So yours must be some next level stuff. Where can I see what it mines, and other specs? I'd love to get a few for myself (if I can afford it). We will be updating the campaign page with spec soon. the official demo video will be uploaded by crowdsupply, but i may share some unofficial videos on youtube in a few days.. I am updating the spec and draft mining performance table , will share that as well. thanks. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on August 15, 2019, 05:09:53 AM I have been contemplating FPGAs for a while. They do seem like the logical successor of GPU rigs which, while available to everyone, are costly and not really energy efficient. Maybe to early to tell, but what sort of price range would we be talking about? yes fpga is costly due to the low production volume (compared to asic chips) that's why we want to launch it on a popular platform to attract more general developers and students, at the same time serving the crypto community. we are trying to bring down the price to 350 USD, but the final price will be decided by Crowdsupply as they want to ensure the fulfillment. plus we will also open source the code, bitstream rtl, schematics we also to bring in more community involvement. xilinx will also ship the fpga with free development tool license, that would be a huge saving for developers as well. Thanks. 350$ seems like a very affordable target for most people, I hope you guys succeed! That depends of the performance that gives, also need to see the quality and service. I was thinking on Blackminer but the performance is not good, hard to get ROI. I hope to see a good project on this. HI thanks for the interest. we will be releasing the initial performance table soon. what specifically is your concern about the quantity and service? in general the product quality and fulfillment is guaranteed by Crowd supply, please check their backer protection page for more information. https://www.crowdsupply.com/guide/backer-protection Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on August 15, 2019, 05:18:01 AM I have been contemplating FPGAs for a while. They do seem like the logical successor of GPU rigs which, while available to everyone, are costly and not really energy efficient. Maybe to early to tell, but what sort of price range would we be talking about? yes fpga is costly due to the low production volume (compared to asic chips) that's why we want to launch it on a popular platform to attract more general developers and students, at the same time serving the crypto community. we are trying to bring down the price to 350 USD, but the final price will be decided by Crowdsupply as they want to ensure the fulfillment. plus we will also open source the code, bitstream rtl, schematics we also to bring in more community involvement. xilinx will also ship the fpga with free development tool license, that would be a huge saving for developers as well. Thanks. 350$ seems like a very affordable target for most people, I hope you guys succeed! That depends of the performance that gives, also need to see the quality and service. I was thinking on Blackminer but the performance is not good, hard to get ROI. I hope to see a good project on this. Yeah I was looking at the Blackminer mini for 180$, but hashrates are not really impressive. Also the algos/bitstreams available on FPGAs are still quite limited to more obscure ones I find. we see one problem is that the algo bitstreams design are not released to the public, so if they stopped maintaining the bitstream and software there won't be of much usage of these boards. with the open source code and free license from xilinx, we hope to build a platform with more active community involvement Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: Globalminingcorp on September 02, 2019, 07:58:16 PM Good to see a followup on the indiegogo attempt. Any perks for those who backed you on indiegogo?
Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: dragonmike on September 02, 2019, 10:27:40 PM Sorry to bring up the elephant in the room but... what sort of hashrates are you getting?... and on what algos?
Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: Globalminingcorp on September 21, 2019, 12:44:14 PM Any update?
Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: Saverenergy on September 24, 2019, 02:17:02 PM Hi, developers! What coins and which algorithms can I get using your device (miner)? What hash rate does this device generate?
Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on October 27, 2019, 06:55:55 PM Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday!
The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design. https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: thefix on October 28, 2019, 11:11:29 PM Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday! The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design. https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga Glad to see you guys sticking with this although projects like these can take a long time and so many thing can change by the time the project is completed. I hope you can get the funding you need to complete this in a timely manner. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on October 29, 2019, 03:00:47 AM Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday! The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design. https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga Glad to see you guys sticking with this although projects like these can take a long time and so many thing can change by the time the project is completed. I hope you can get the funding you need to complete this in a timely manner. Thanks. yes we have the funding to complete the production run, and I would say the sw/hw is 85% ready, in about 2-3 months they shall be shipped. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on October 29, 2019, 03:18:22 AM Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday! I am pretty excited for this but unfortunately compute based fpga are in a slump of price, not enough algorithms are showing up and people are selling their VCU/BCU cards for quite a cheap cheap price. This is going to be great for devs with the vivado license but for actual miners unless we see a plethora of Bitstreams I am afraid others will just buy used VCU cards.The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design. https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga thanks, we are continuously working on the algorithms development, and at the end of the campaign we will open source all algorithm designs. we hope to get involved more developers into the project, and make more algos available in the future. besides that, the setup is much easier and user friendly than the VCU cards. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: Ruso21 on November 01, 2019, 02:21:45 AM Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday! The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design. https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga any chance to make a video showing the numbers & performance? (a very clear 1 on the whole set running & mining) starting to get the funds it means you have 90% ready, also the amount is not small. from today to march is a long way to go in this market, many changes can happen. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply Post by: arm_race on November 01, 2019, 04:50:53 AM Hi! sorry for the long wait, we have finalized the terms with Crowdsupply and plan to launch the campaign in the coming Monday/Tuesday! The campaign page will be updated with loads of useful information once the campaign starts officially, please sign up for updates if you haven't already. I also attached a preview of the mining performance table, all the algorithms will be provided free of charge and 0 dev fee. at the end of the campaign we will open source the algorithm design. https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga any chance to make a video showing the numbers & performance? (a very clear 1 on the whole set running & mining) starting to get the funds it means you have 90% ready, also the amount is not small. from today to march is a long way to go in this market, many changes can happen. yes exactly we will release some videos in the coming days. it will be released as campaign updates on crowdsupply, so please do sign up the notification on CS if you haven't already. https://www.crowdsupply.com/agilmine/ultraminer-fpga Also we have sent miner to 3rd party reviewer who will also post some validation video. the miner version is 90% done, prototype been made to validate the design, we will make another batch soon at the end of the campaign period. crowdsupply wants to have some margin in time schedule. we think if the campaign is successful, it should take up to 2 months to have the boards made and shipped. the developer version may take longer though. thanks. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply! Post by: grendel25 on November 01, 2019, 05:12:46 AM The numbers I'm seeing so far don't really interest me. looks to be about 4 years with free electricity just to earn back equipment cost.
edit: i do appreciate the efforts being put forth. It's also nice to see that these are actually profitable... but it's just that it would take so long and that's a lot of extra time for risk of many other problems or setbacks. So far it just seems like death by thousand paper cuts Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply! Post by: arm_race on November 07, 2019, 03:40:04 AM hello, in this survey we have listed a few crypto algorithms we can work on next, with the hope to improve the ROI.
all algorithm developed will be provided to the community for free, and open source. if you have time please participate, your input is very valuable to our project. https://s.surveyplanet.com/JhWi_aQm Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply! Post by: thefix on November 13, 2019, 01:32:04 AM It looks like you are about 15% funded on your campaign which is pretty good considering how mining is currently. How long to you plan to keep the campaign running and will you try another way if you do not get enough funding?
Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply! Post by: Bitelbola on November 30, 2019, 05:08:34 PM hello, in this survey we have listed a few crypto algorithms we can work on next, with the hope to improve the ROI. Hi there! I have been doing some research and I must say that projects like these don't come forward often. The fact that you guys are willing to open source everything is really refreshing and will be a good thing in the long run IMO, as reputation is really important in crypto. I do have one question though: are there any other algos that the FPGA would be able to run, and will you disclose this before the end of the crowdfunding campaign? Thanks!all algorithm developed will be provided to the community for free, and open source. if you have time please participate, your input is very valuable to our project. https://s.surveyplanet.com/JhWi_aQm Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply! Post by: arm_race on December 03, 2019, 04:43:35 AM It looks like you are about 15% funded on your campaign which is pretty good considering how mining is currently. How long to you plan to keep the campaign running and will you try another way if you do not get enough funding? hi thank you. the campaign will be kept on for another 14 days. please sign up if you haven't we will be releasing project updates through their mailist. well, we are producing the 2nd engineering batch now, with all bugs fixed and features implemented, by the end of campaign the board should be production ready. after the campaign we may take orders from our website, but we can only make a batch if the order if there is demand Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply! Post by: arm_race on December 03, 2019, 04:45:23 AM hello, in this survey we have listed a few crypto algorithms we can work on next, with the hope to improve the ROI. Hi there! I have been doing some research and I must say that projects like these don't come forward often. The fact that you guys are willing to open source everything is really refreshing and will be a good thing in the long run IMO, as reputation is really important in crypto. I do have one question though: are there any other algos that the FPGA would be able to run, and will you disclose this before the end of the crowdfunding campaign? Thanks!all algorithm developed will be provided to the community for free, and open source. if you have time please participate, your input is very valuable to our project. https://s.surveyplanet.com/JhWi_aQm yes there are many algorithms the fpga hardware can run on, it is just we don't want to overpromise because we don't have time to implement them all. we can release a list of potential algorithms in future update. thanks. Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply! Post by: Bitelbola on December 20, 2019, 12:06:06 PM hello, in this survey we have listed a few crypto algorithms we can work on next, with the hope to improve the ROI. Hi there! I have been doing some research and I must say that projects like these don't come forward often. The fact that you guys are willing to open source everything is really refreshing and will be a good thing in the long run IMO, as reputation is really important in crypto. I do have one question though: are there any other algos that the FPGA would be able to run, and will you disclose this before the end of the crowdfunding campaign? Thanks!all algorithm developed will be provided to the community for free, and open source. if you have time please participate, your input is very valuable to our project. https://s.surveyplanet.com/JhWi_aQm yes there are many algorithms the fpga hardware can run on, it is just we don't want to overpromise because we don't have time to implement them all. we can release a list of potential algorithms in future update. thanks. I just saw that the campaign on Crowdsupply has ended without reaching the target, but I do hope you guys can launch again in the future. Good luck! Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply! Post by: RussiaUkraineTranslation on December 21, 2019, 08:28:32 PM bump for interest
Title: Re: UltraMiner FPGA is Alive on Crowd Supply! Post by: webhead on September 23, 2020, 01:58:46 AM why not build cpu miner into it so i can then just mine all the cpu coins instead of this stupid bitstream crap , just put cpuminer on it job done .
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