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Title: Is the mining project based on OpenCL ? CUDA ?
Post by: maplelake on December 03, 2020, 10:20:03 PM
Mining focuses on computing. I am wondering the popular, i meaning used widely, mining application use OpenCL or CUDA or something else ? And Is there github link ?
Thanks 


Title: Re: Is the mining project based on OpenCL ? CUDA ?
Post by: NotATether on December 03, 2020, 11:43:56 PM
For which cryptocurrency are you looking for a mining project?

It seems you are looking for a miner that uses GPUs via CUDA or OpenCL. If you are looking for a bitcoin miner, there is no such project because GPU miners became obsolete a long time ago and the difficulty is way too high to hit a block with one.

But if you are looking for some altcoin miner then depending on the altcoin, it may still be possible. Some altcoins also have difficulty levels out of reach of GPUs.