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Title: NVidea opensources CUDA platform Post by: nixxle on December 14, 2011, 03:21:55 PM http://developer.nvidia.com/content/cuda-platform-source-release
I was just wondering if this could mean anything for bitcoin mining ... ? Title: Re: NVidea opensources CUDA platform Post by: cronopio on December 14, 2011, 03:32:34 PM Hi!
I hope this will improve the miners soft. I guess with this info the miners for CUDA can do a better work. Thanks Nvidia, and thanks for all devs working on this. ;D Title: Re: NVidea opensources CUDA platform Post by: LegitBit on December 15, 2011, 03:53:43 PM Well this does open up the compiler to be optimized for bitcoin-based applications, though I doubt much gain is to be had.
Similar to how some modify their C compilers I'm betting someone will do the same for us. Though I do not think it is actually 'open' to everyone yet, just that they are planning on releasing it. I'm more interested in AMD recently open-sourcing their OpenCL stuffs: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNjk Of course I am in no way a coder so have no clue whatsoever if that is even relevant. ;D Title: Re: NVidea opensources CUDA platform Post by: Red Emerald on December 18, 2011, 07:23:37 AM NVIDIA's hardware is just not as good as ATI's when it comes to integer math. Even with optimized miners, NVIDIA hash rates will (sadly) never be close to ATI.
Title: Re: NVidea opensources CUDA platform Post by: ThiagoCMC on December 30, 2011, 12:24:31 AM Maybe NVidia can run Litecoin miner faster than CPU?!
With some assembly code for it?! Who will give it a try ??? Title: Re: NVidea opensources CUDA platform Post by: Red Emerald on December 30, 2011, 12:33:30 AM Maybe NVidia can run Litecoin miner faster than CPU?! scrypt is very GPU hostile. I don't think nvidia's advantage in floating point math will help at all.With some assembly code for it?! Who will give it a try ??? |