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Title: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rupy on March 21, 2012, 01:44:52 PM Hi, just a place share and discuss how we setup our FPGAs.
I'll start by posting an image of my passive setup: http://rupy.se/bild.JPG I'm also looking at providing active cooling via an aquarium pump. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: BR0KK on March 21, 2012, 10:01:49 PM Hi i have also bought 5 Boards from Ztex. I think ill go Passive some day. But for Now they run with the small Titan cooler (and the xilence fan because this has an RPM Signal.....)
And i need to build a case for them ..... http://www.abload.de/img/img_0427seuhl.jpg Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: jamesg on March 21, 2012, 10:04:23 PM Seven BFL singles staying cool.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HLAY8zhZPxs/T2N2mR5AlNI/AAAAAAAAA14/FvyQ7B1Yz6Y/s720/IMG_0221%255B1%255D.JPG Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: BR0KK on March 21, 2012, 10:14:20 PM Nice to see them in action now :) Will be looking forward to get one of these Units in my hands someday. For now i'll stick to Ztex because i can order them without problems like tax and shipping costs.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: TheSeven on March 21, 2012, 10:42:34 PM watching
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on March 21, 2012, 10:51:29 PM Looks awesome, giga!
I'll figure out how I'm going to cool 20 x6500s and post back here later :P Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: TheSeven on March 21, 2012, 11:46:16 PM If that works with ztex boards, it should work with the x6500 rev3 (which has heatsink mounting holes) equally well.
With the rev2 it might be a bit tricky to mount those heavy heatsinks, and the thermal resistance of thermal adhesive is usually higher than that of thermal grease. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: nyana on March 22, 2012, 06:11:35 AM Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Red Emerald on March 22, 2012, 06:19:42 AM Beautiful.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: finway on March 22, 2012, 08:14:47 AM Nice new gen mining rigs.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rupy on March 22, 2012, 09:43:02 AM Are those ztex boards? Are you running at full speed with passive cooling? I'd ideally like to run passively albeit with X6500s. Yes, 1x3 and 4x3N, and it's not completely passive. You see that knob/sill under the edge of the windowboard, that's an outside air inlet. So I have air blowing onto the heatsinks. They are running at 3x216 and 2x208. I use a D510MO with SSD and PicoPSU as computer, so my whole digital setup is completely silent! I think that without the active cooling they might run at maybe 3x208 and 2x200 instead, but the wear/lifetime would be very different. We'll see how they run during the summer (if the balcony door or a window is open, there's no airflow) and if there is a problem I'll add some kind of active cooling. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: jamesg on March 22, 2012, 11:41:00 AM temporary case but you get the idea (as seen in the bitcoin syndicate threads) That's a pretty sweet setup. Very clean install. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: coretechs on March 22, 2012, 02:41:22 PM http://chrono.firex.org/images/icarus.jpg
Not much of a rig, just a little Icarus tower and some 600rpm fans. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: allinvain on March 22, 2012, 03:21:49 PM http://chrono.firex.org/images/icarus.jpg Not much of a rig, just a little Icarus tower and some 600rpm fans. 120mm or 140mm fans? Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: jjiimm_64 on March 22, 2012, 07:15:51 PM Seven BFL singles staying cool. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HLAY8zhZPxs/T2N2mR5AlNI/AAAAAAAAA14/FvyQ7B1Yz6Y/s720/IMG_0221%255B1%255D.JPG what fans are you using with those. i dont think they are included? i ordered 2 bfl's about a week ago Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: jamesg on March 22, 2012, 07:17:04 PM what fans are you using with those. i dont think they are included? i ordered 2 bfl's about a week ago The fans are included. I'll have updated pic tomorrow of all 11. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: coretechs on March 22, 2012, 10:30:06 PM Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: allinvain on March 23, 2012, 01:27:16 AM Thanks for the info. I intend to build a similar tower of FPGA power. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: fizzisist on March 23, 2012, 05:06:18 AM This is awesome. Great idea to start this, rupy.
We posted some great photos of X6500 based rigs in the FPGA Mining Gallery (http://fpgamining.com/gallery). Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: allinvain on March 23, 2012, 11:09:32 AM Nice hubs. I wonder if they make a 10 port version of the hub in that pic. Next time I need a hub I'll give you a try. I just bought a 10 port hub from some dude on ebay for around $8 but I'd rather support a fellow bitcoiner.
Good luck with your business. One suggestion though, you may not want to post in this thread next time as I think the mods would consider this as advertising. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: aTg on March 23, 2012, 12:06:13 PM Is a personal opinion, I would like the thread is not filled with photos of products and things that are not our FPGAs.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Cablez on March 23, 2012, 12:25:20 PM The link alone would probably have been better suited. ::)
OnT: Those are some sweet rigs here and on the other site. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: tarrant_01 on April 04, 2012, 04:42:03 PM I'll have updated pic tomorrow of all 11. Which tomorrow? ;D ;D ;D Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: jamesg on April 04, 2012, 04:58:49 PM I'll have updated pic tomorrow of all 11. Which tomorrow? ;D ;D ;D Well, since you asked, this tomorrow. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sRnpqzUpBDo/T2zV1UqJGJI/AAAAAAAAA2s/cMfrssfs-Ao/s640/IMG_0225.JPG Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: silverbox on April 04, 2012, 05:06:31 PM Nice.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: tgmarks on April 04, 2012, 07:29:37 PM Watching and enjoying.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Beaflag VonRathburg on April 05, 2012, 02:20:44 AM I'll have updated pic tomorrow of all 11. Which tomorrow? ;D ;D ;D Well, since you asked, this tomorrow. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sRnpqzUpBDo/T2zV1UqJGJI/AAAAAAAAA2s/cMfrssfs-Ao/s640/IMG_0225.JPG BFL must really love you to get them to you as quick as they do. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rjk on April 05, 2012, 02:49:35 AM BFL must really love you to get them to you as quick as they do. Nah, he just pre-ordered before everyone else. Early adopters win!Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on April 05, 2012, 03:40:48 AM Early adopters win! Indeed they do.Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: jamesg on April 05, 2012, 10:04:24 AM BFL must really love you to get them to you as quick as they do. In the end, I will have probably waited longer than almost any other purchaser. :P Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: camolist on April 05, 2012, 08:09:27 PM two ztex boards, host and power supply pictured
two X6500 and 10 singles have been ordered power supply will run it all - is already wired to the ztex with 12 volts and usb hub with 5 volts and running on p2pool http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/7262/photo1lfb.jpg http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5774/photo2glv.jpg Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Glasswalker on April 10, 2012, 03:19:15 PM Some pics of the Bitcoin Syndicate FPGA Rig (it looks a little different now, I no longer use that motherboard, as it had USB chipset issues, and I have switched from the el-cheapo 4 port USB hubs to some nicer 10 port ones. Don't have updated pics yet though) lol
http://forum.btcsyn.com/download/file.php?id=2 http://forum.btcsyn.com/download/file.php?id=3 (these were posted elsewhere too just thought I'd add them to this thread since it's relevant) :) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: tgmarks on April 10, 2012, 03:23:15 PM That is sweet! My applause for your effort in layout not to mention the added confidence for having invested in your venture.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Red Emerald on April 11, 2012, 03:32:52 AM snip Well I came. How many GH/s is that?Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Cablez on April 11, 2012, 03:42:35 AM Looks to be 18 Icarus so somewhere around 6Gh/s. :) nice! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: antirack on April 11, 2012, 09:34:44 AM Some pics of the Bitcoin Syndicate FPGA Rig (it looks a little different now, I no longer use that motherboard, as it had USB chipset issues, and I have switched from the el-cheapo 4 port USB hubs to some nicer 10 port ones. Don't have updated pics yet though) lol http://forum.btcsyn.com/download/file.php?id=2 http://forum.btcsyn.com/download/file.php?id=3 (these were posted elsewhere too just thought I'd add them to this thread since it's relevant) :) Just out of curiosity, do you still need those small fans on the Icarus heatsinks? Wouldn't it be sufficient or even better to close the "case" on the top and force the air through the heatsinks? What's the airflow (cfm) of these fans? In case this is suited better for another thread, let me know. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: TheSeven on April 11, 2012, 10:56:12 AM Just out of curiosity, do you still need those small fans on the Icarus heatsinks? Wouldn't it be sufficient or even better to close the "case" on the top and force the air through the heatsinks? What's the airflow (cfm) of these fans? In case this is suited better for another thread, let me know. No, that wouldn't work, the Icarus stock heatsinks are way too small for that and need quite a bit of airflow. Even a huge fan sitting next to them (but blowing from the side is barely sufficient, so at least the second-row boards wouldn't be happy with such a setup. Sadly you can't easily swap the heatsinks on these boards... Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rjk on April 11, 2012, 01:08:00 PM Just out of curiosity, do you still need those small fans on the Icarus heatsinks? Wouldn't it be sufficient or even better to close the "case" on the top and force the air through the heatsinks? What's the airflow (cfm) of these fans? In case this is suited better for another thread, let me know. No, that wouldn't work, the Icarus stock heatsinks are way too small for that and need quite a bit of airflow. Even a huge fan sitting next to them (but blowing from the side is barely sufficient, so at least the second-row boards wouldn't be happy with such a setup. Sadly you can't easily swap the heatsinks on these boards... Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: R- on April 11, 2012, 01:11:31 PM @GlassWalker: Sweet pick my man.
Robert. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: TheSeven on April 11, 2012, 01:17:56 PM I would think that the turbulence caused by perpendicular airflows would have lesser cooling capability than higher-velocity ducted flow that was relatively linear. So, fans in a push-pull and a cover on the case (clear plexi?) ought to give even better cooling. Only if you put bigger heatsinks on them or prevent the air from flowing around the heatsinks. These heatsinks provide way too much air resistance (partially due to the direction in which they are mounted), causing barely any air to flow through them. Their surface is way too small to cool the chips adequately at the low air speeds (within the heatsink) that you would end up with. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Shadow383 on April 12, 2012, 03:57:47 PM Just out of curiosity, do you still need those small fans on the Icarus heatsinks? Wouldn't it be sufficient or even better to close the "case" on the top and force the air through the heatsinks? What's the airflow (cfm) of these fans? In case this is suited better for another thread, let me know. No, that wouldn't work, the Icarus stock heatsinks are way too small for that and need quite a bit of airflow. Even a huge fan sitting next to them (but blowing from the side is barely sufficient, so at least the second-row boards wouldn't be happy with such a setup. Sadly you can't easily swap the heatsinks on these boards... Turbulence is (or at least should be) the aim when doing forced cooling like this, since a turbulent boundary layer has much greater speeds close to the surface, and thus is better at drawing heat from the surface into the free-stream flow. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: roomservice on April 13, 2012, 01:20:36 PM Here is my first FPGA Mining Rig. Click the picture for larger view.
http://www7.pic-upload.de/thumb/13.04.12/43zhsdjjn43d.jpg (http://www.pic-upload.de/view-13753765/IMAG0035.jpg.html) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Glasswalker on April 13, 2012, 02:32:39 PM To answer the previously posted questions:
- it's 6GHash roughly (18 boards). I technically have 17 cards, but the last one is mining seperately, or being used for development and testing of our own bitstream. - When combined with our GPUs that brings our effective hashrate well over 12GHash/s right now. - The fans are 80CFM fans. They are enough to keep constant fresh air moving through the case while the individual fans on the cards deal with airflow to the heatsinks. The previous comments are correct, I could go to higher CFM fans on the front and use additional pull fans on the back, and add larger heatsinks to the boards for more efficient cooling. But the noise would be much higher as well (These are in my home right now). I'll be moving them to a proper datacenter in the future. At which time I'll then change out the cooling solution to be higher efficiency (by then it will no longer be a wooden case, but a custom designed steel 3U rackmount case as well, plus it will likely be up to 24+ cards per case) - Give me 3-4 months... I'll likely have some MUCH more impressive photos ;) - Also the intent is that case will run closed in the end. But right now the cabling causes too much airflow restriction. I'll be cleaning it up significantly once I have time, and designing ducting to force the air past the cards while seperating airflow from cabling space. This is just the prototype, once the prototype is finished and works well I'll be having custom rackmount cases fabbed up in steel. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: jamesg on April 13, 2012, 07:55:21 PM It's that time again. Moved some things around a bit.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IZDz8j4NLIw/T4iEOru0xzI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/0-uSLXdKGHY/s720/IMG_0237%255B1%255D.JPG Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: P_Shep on April 13, 2012, 08:22:26 PM Currently mining away at 1651MH/s using 155W (2xBFL, Router, USB hub) at the wall.
:) https://i.imgur.com/UTPCjl.jpg (http://imgur.com/UTPCj) https://i.imgur.com/ox5sml.jpg (http://imgur.com/ox5sm) https://i.imgur.com/XTMBpl.jpg (http://imgur.com/XTMBp) https://i.imgur.com/6VBLjl.jpg (http://imgur.com/6VBLj) https://i.imgur.com/a9DMAl.jpg (http://imgur.com/a9DMA) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Beaflag VonRathburg on April 13, 2012, 09:08:34 PM It's that time again. Moved some things around a bit. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IZDz8j4NLIw/T4iEOru0xzI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/0-uSLXdKGHY/s720/IMG_0237%255B1%255D.JPG Darn. I've been saying I'm going to order mine for a week now and just haven't pulled the trigger yet. You're making me jealous. It's time! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: allinvain on April 13, 2012, 09:16:45 PM Nice P_Shep..I'm glad to finally see someone using the revision 3 BFL Singles. That means they're finally cranking up production. I take it you went in early on in the waiting queue.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: P_Shep on April 13, 2012, 09:24:11 PM Nice P_Shep..I'm glad to finally see someone using the revision 3 BFL Singles. That means they're finally cranking up production. I take it you went in early on in the waiting queue. Yeah, all I can say is "About 'ing time!". Still have some more to come though... Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Inspector 2211 on April 13, 2012, 09:30:09 PM It's that time again. Moved some things around a bit. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IZDz8j4NLIw/T4iEOru0xzI/AAAAAAAAA4Q/0-uSLXdKGHY/s720/IMG_0237%255B1%255D.JPG 11 x Rev.2 and (in the back) 4 x Rev. 3, if I count correctly? Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rjk on April 13, 2012, 09:31:12 PM Currently mining away at 1651MH/s using 155W (2xBFL, Router, USB hub) at the wall. So sexy. Nice job, BFL on the design.:) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: jamesg on April 13, 2012, 09:44:04 PM 11 x Rev.2 and (in the back) 4 x Rev. 3, if I count correctly? The count is: Rev1 == 4 Rev2 == 7 Rev3 == 4 The ones closets to the PC are Rev1s. They're taller than Rev2 because they use just the big heatsinks on the bottom. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on April 14, 2012, 05:28:55 AM Taken with a blackberry :P
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9542654/btc/k/IMG_00000076.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9542654/btc/k/IMG_00000081.jpg * not sure of the syntax to resize an image so posts links instead * Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: antirack on April 14, 2012, 06:15:31 AM Taken with a blackberry :P http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9542654/btc/k/IMG_00000076.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9542654/btc/k/IMG_00000081.jpg * not sure of the syntax to resize an image so posts links instead * Did I see that right, you removed some of the fans on the heat sinks but you kept the ones on the top? Are these the USB hubs in pic 81.jpg with the blue LEDs? 11 port USB hubs? 19 x X6500? Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on April 14, 2012, 06:25:20 AM Yeah, the sinks on under the top don't need individual fans, because of the stacked 80mm's. They are 12 port USB hubs with the switches and LEDs.
Yes, 19 x6500s. 18 Cognitive, and one belongs to someone who could not have it shipped to their country, and is mining for them. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Turbor on April 14, 2012, 11:37:15 AM No matter what people say about BFL and their lead times, revision 3 rocks! A miners dream. And some still dream about a GPU future... ::)
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: JWU42 on April 14, 2012, 02:37:00 PM p_shep - thanks for the Rev3 pics!
gigavps - are the Rev 3 (assuming Rev4 is a typo) running any cooler? Can't tell what is what on the mgpumon display... Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: jamesg on April 14, 2012, 09:01:58 PM p_shep - thanks for the Rev3 pics! gigavps - are the Rev 3 (assuming Rev4 is a typo) running any cooler? Can't tell what is what on the mgpumon display... lol. I have no idea which is which either! I was told by BFL that the temps displayed can vary quite a bit. The most important thing is for the singles to not start flashing their front LED at the ambient temp while mining. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Inspector 2211 on April 14, 2012, 10:14:48 PM p_shep - thanks for the Rev3 pics! gigavps - are the Rev 3 (assuming Rev4 is a typo) running any cooler? Can't tell what is what on the mgpumon display... lol. I have no idea which is which either! I was told by BFL that the temps displayed can vary quite a bit. The most important thing is for the singles to not start flashing their front LED at the ambient temp while mining. I have it running in my 90 degree (est.) mining office and it doesn't seem to throttle. Excellent job, BFL. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: SamHa1n on April 17, 2012, 04:14:53 AM https://i.imgur.com/jGw1Tl.jpg (http://imgur.com/jGw1T)
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: aseldon on April 17, 2012, 04:26:16 AM Excellent looking setup. What kind of boards are those and what do you use to power and manage them?
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Jaryu on April 17, 2012, 04:45:37 AM Currently mining away at 1651MH/s using 155W (2xBFL, Router, USB hub) at the wall. :) https://i.imgur.com/a9DMAl.jpg (http://imgur.com/a9DMA) That's a nice and clean setup, which linksys router did you use? not familiar with any linksys that comes pre-loaded with dd-wrt only know the Buffalo models that do, how many units do you think the little cpu on that router can handle? I just might use something like this instead of the cheap computer I was setting up on my table for the singles I ordered. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: P_Shep on April 17, 2012, 05:50:21 AM I got more details here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76685.0 It's an e3000 and you'll have to load DD-WRT yourself. It's not TOO difficult, but you do have to be careful. Looking at processor and mem usage, I think it could probably handle the full 100 possible. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: BR0KK on April 26, 2012, 11:15:09 AM A wild Spartan and its baby:
http://www.abload.de/thumb/mobile.0pujl0.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=mobile.0pujl0.jpg) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on April 27, 2012, 12:59:56 AM Cool!
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Phraust on May 07, 2012, 05:53:43 AM Just my Mac Mini server with
http://www.phraust.com/photos/Mining_Rig.jpg Finally running cgminer native as well: http://www.phraust.com/photos/Mining.png Only waiting for the new power-source and cables to replace all these crappy powerblocks. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on May 07, 2012, 06:05:15 AM Just my Mac Mini server with 3 BFLs. I'm not sure how cost effective using a mac mini server is... But it looks nice!Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: BR0KK on May 07, 2012, 09:27:41 AM I have 9 Ztex boards on my mac mini and it consumes alltogether 170 w.
Not that effective but i dont habe any pcs left here :) Ill post a pic: Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Tittiez on May 07, 2012, 09:01:12 PM So much porn in this thread!
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: P_Shep on May 17, 2012, 08:36:19 PM The last of my BFLs have arrived, here's my completed setup:
https://i.imgur.com/YyROj.jpg?1 6 units + router + hub = 480W https://i.imgur.com/ArTCQ.jpg?1 Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rjk on May 17, 2012, 08:39:03 PM The last of my BFLs have arrived, here's my completed setup: Nice! What is the power supply rated for, and about how much power do the router and switch take by themselves?https://i.imgur.com/YyROj.jpg?1 6 units + router + hub = 480W https://i.imgur.com/ArTCQ.jpg?1 Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: P_Shep on May 17, 2012, 08:44:31 PM 650W gold PSU, so it's running at ~73% rated power.
Router and hub use ~12W Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: bulanula on May 17, 2012, 09:25:29 PM 650W gold PSU, so it's running at ~73% rated power. Router and hub use ~12W I don't see a Ethernet to the router. Using wireless I presume ? What is CPU load and does it not overheat from cgminer coordinating them BFLs ? Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on May 18, 2012, 01:12:55 AM Yeah he's using wireless :P
And I'd assume he's using MPBM on openWRT, yeah? Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: P_Shep on May 18, 2012, 03:40:45 AM The details:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76685.0 Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: allinvain on May 18, 2012, 06:21:00 AM Very nice. Looking for a used e3000 right now. This will make a sweet miner manager for the BFL singles. Does the cgminer 2.4.1 also have icarus support?
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: mrb on May 18, 2012, 07:54:55 AM 650W gold PSU, so it's running at ~73% rated power. Actually, less. Probably 65% or so. You see 480W at the wall, but this PSU is probably outputting ~425W to the router & singles (~89% efficiency). That means 425/650 = 65% A 650W PSU running at 100% would output exactly 650W while pulling more than 650W at the wall. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: P_Shep on May 18, 2012, 03:15:10 PM Icarus, and possibly ztex, but not sure if ztex will work or not.
And yeah, forgot to consider the losses in the PSU. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: pazor on May 18, 2012, 03:24:22 PM hi,
has anyone use a tp-link mr3420 with open-wrt to run a and control ztex boards ? regards pazor Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: tarrant_01 on May 19, 2012, 02:00:29 PM I'd like to see a picture of how to hook up a single to a power supply instead of using the brick that comes with them.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: TheSeven on May 19, 2012, 02:37:39 PM I'd like to see a picture of how to hook up a single to a power supply instead of using the brick that comes with them. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67819.msg809820#msg809820 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74397.0 Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: P_Shep on May 19, 2012, 04:54:18 PM Quote hi, has anyone use a tp-link mr3420 with open-wrt to run a and control ztex boards ? regards pazor My link should work for you. It's a mipsel processor so the binary should work. Have a bash and see how far you get. Let me know what changes you have to make. Quote Quote from: tarrant_01 on Today at 06:00:29 AM I'd like to see a picture of how to hook up a single to a power supply instead of using the brick that comes with them. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=67819.msg809820#msg809820 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74397.0 It's almost concerning how warm the cables get, even the PSU cables. I guess pulling 7A will do that! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Cablez on May 19, 2012, 05:48:07 PM Hey P_Shep do you think I could get the dd_wrt running with cgminer on a linksys E2000? It has half the ram and the chip runs at 354Mhz compared to the E3000. I didn't want to start flashing and risk bricking if there was not going to be enough resources to do this.
Quote It's almost concerning how warm the cables get, even the PSU cables. I guess pulling 7A will do that! Are you still running those spliced 18AWG cables? I have not noticed any unusual temperatures with the better insulated versions that I make 16 or 18AWG. I have noticed some warmth on the cables from the PSU side. They must really use some cheap wire to make these. ;D Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: P_Shep on May 19, 2012, 06:28:41 PM 18AWG all the way from the PSU to the BFL. The splice is the last thing to get warm. Are there PSUs that use 16AWG?
You'll not brick the router running cgminer on it. It doesn't re-write the firmware or anything. CGMiner uses so little resourses I'm sure it'll be fine. Try it and see. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: shackleford on May 22, 2012, 02:59:48 PM https://i.imgur.com/EMBR6l.jpg
Temps are (bottom to top) 33-36-36-37-38-38 @70f ambient. I will be playing with improving the cooling and adding more boards in the future. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: TheHarbinger on May 22, 2012, 03:03:53 PM https://i.imgur.com/EMBR6l.jpg Temps are (bottom to top) 33-36-36-37-38-38 @70f ambient. I will be playing with improving the cooling and adding more boards in the future. I like it. Are you getting any wicking effect of the oil seeping up the cables at all? I had an oil cooled build (not a miner) a few years back and I found that I had to run the cables straight up about a foot and a half to stop the wicking. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: BR0KK on May 22, 2012, 03:05:28 PM Quote I like it. Are you getting any wicking effect of the oil seeping up the cables at all? I had an oil cooled build (not a miner) a few years back and I found that I had to run the cables straight up about a foot and a half to stop the wicking. Had that problem to but as u can see there no wire going into the oil. Its separated by the hub at the top of the miner? Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: shackleford on May 22, 2012, 03:45:13 PM I like it. Are you getting any wicking effect of the oil seeping up the cables at all? I had an oil cooled build (not a miner) a few years back and I found that I had to run the cables straight up about a foot and a half to stop the wicking. The hub and power splitter were origionaly hot glued to the back of the removable plank of acrylic the miner cards are attached to (like a blade). The Oil does not play nice with the hot glue and has essentialy deteriorated it and I had to remove the hub from the "blade" to troublsoot an issue. I did have wicking but I have not put much effort into getting rid of it yet since it is pretty minimal and I have been messing arround with it. I have seprate connectors for both the power and USB and I plan to make a connetor box on the back and epoxy seal everything on the oil side to eliminate seepage. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: arklan on May 22, 2012, 04:58:31 PM what kind of oil is that? talk about liquid cooling... :D
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: shackleford on May 22, 2012, 06:02:08 PM what kind of oil is that? talk about liquid cooling... :D Tech grade mineral oil http://store.steoil.com/crystal-plus-tech-grade-mineral-oil-70t-5-gal/ (http://store.steoil.com/crystal-plus-tech-grade-mineral-oil-70t-5-gal/) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Inspector 2211 on May 22, 2012, 06:09:23 PM what kind of oil is that? talk about liquid cooling... :D Tech grade mineral oil http://store.steoil.com/crystal-plus-tech-grade-mineral-oil-70t-5-gal/ (http://store.steoil.com/crystal-plus-tech-grade-mineral-oil-70t-5-gal/) A veterinarian uses this kind of oil to try to clear a colic (colon blockage) in a horse. I saw a vet do that. Thus, in other words, you could use it as a laxative, if you wanted. ;D Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: spiccioli on May 22, 2012, 07:15:21 PM what kind of oil is that? talk about liquid cooling... :D Tech grade mineral oil http://store.steoil.com/crystal-plus-tech-grade-mineral-oil-70t-5-gal/ (http://store.steoil.com/crystal-plus-tech-grade-mineral-oil-70t-5-gal/) A veterinarian uses this kind of oil to try to clear a colic (colon blockage) in a horse. I saw a vet do that. Thus, in other words, you could use it as a laxative, if you wanted. ;D Inspector, This oil also meets USDA requirements for H-1 lubricants for incidental food contact I don't think it would be a good idea to take a glass of it :) spiccioli. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: arklan on May 22, 2012, 07:18:31 PM very interesting, the oil set up... with those temps it seems like a much moe effcient way to run a rig compared to air or standard liquid cooling. unless i'm missing something obvious.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: shackleford on May 22, 2012, 08:31:46 PM very interesting, the oil set up... with those temps it seems like a much moe effcient way to run a rig compared to air or standard liquid cooling. unless i'm missing something obvious. It is good for the amount of cards/surface area & amount of oil I have right now, however the more cards I add the more creative I will need to be to keep the temps down. Expanding to a metal lid with heatsinks on top and bottom is my first step. Doing something large scale could be more cost effective then purchasing a large number of waterblocks and it cools the whole card. IDK..If I had the money to buy a large number of FPGAs I would probably design an enclosure just large enough house all the FPGAs then run a the oil through a loop going through a 55galon drum of water with a radiator in it and then possibly cool the water if needed (or something funky). I don't think air is bad, my temps were low 30's across the board with a good copper heatsink and a single fan each. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: grubles on May 27, 2012, 08:49:14 PM My face after reading this thread:
http://www.reactionface.info/sites/default/files/images/1310650820313.jpg Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: cuz0882 on June 03, 2012, 01:58:51 AM very interesting, the oil set up... with those temps it seems like a much moe effcient way to run a rig compared to air or standard liquid cooling. unless i'm missing something obvious. Oil can absorb more heat then air but that's it. It may cool the rig for a day or so while the oil heats up. After that, the oil will not have any effect. I don't really know what this guy is thinking. He must think the oil traps the heat and then stores it in another dimension. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: bulanula on June 03, 2012, 02:47:48 AM very interesting, the oil set up... with those temps it seems like a much moe effcient way to run a rig compared to air or standard liquid cooling. unless i'm missing something obvious. Oil can absorb more heat then air but that's it. It may cool the rig for a day or so while the oil heats up. After that, the oil will not have any effect. I don't really know what this guy is thinking. He must think the oil traps the heat and then stores it in another dimension. :D :D :DSorry had to post this but it was TOO funny :D Also, anybody have received a setup of yohan's Cairnsmore boards in the wild ( except glasswalker guy ) ? They look very nice indeed ! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: notme on June 03, 2012, 03:06:34 AM very interesting, the oil set up... with those temps it seems like a much moe effcient way to run a rig compared to air or standard liquid cooling. unless i'm missing something obvious. Oil can absorb more heat then air but that's it. It may cool the rig for a day or so while the oil heats up. After that, the oil will not have any effect. I don't really know what this guy is thinking. He must think the oil traps the heat and then stores it in another dimension. It wouldn't be hard to run some copper tubing in that space and run water through it and a radiator if there isn't enough surface area to disburse the heat. Plus 6 FPGAs isn't a whole lot of power. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: shackleford on June 04, 2012, 04:18:26 AM very interesting, the oil set up... with those temps it seems like a much moe effcient way to run a rig compared to air or standard liquid cooling. unless i'm missing something obvious. Oil can absorb more heat then air but that's it. It may cool the rig for a day or so while the oil heats up. After that, the oil will not have any effect. I don't really know what this guy is thinking. He must think the oil traps the heat and then stores it in another dimension. The temps I posted were after running a few days..2 weeks later and the temps are the same. So where you think the heat is going ..? (perhaps another dimension) Oil transfers the heat to its container with a large surface area and dissipates. Not sure why I responded to such a dumb comment. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: BR0KK on June 04, 2012, 09:31:46 PM Quote Only one out of the 20 Ztex FPGAs is broken. Not sure why it's not performing, but given the amount of unskilled electronics work performed by me (I've never done anything like this before), I'd put user error as the most likely reason, rather than any problem with Stefan's boards. If anything, I'm hugely impressed with how robust his kit is. It's expensive, but it's clear that you get what you pay for with Ztex. i fully agree to that :) One of my singles died and i can't explain it. Maybe i did something to it while moving them; got an replacement after sending it in. Ill stick to Ztex for a while. I like what i get for my money. Even if ETs Bitstream won't work with them! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Cablez on June 04, 2012, 10:59:52 PM Snip... That is just sexy sexy sexy there catfish. I love the large setup, it is just so clean. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Cablez on June 04, 2012, 11:42:50 PM Why are you not using the fan headers supplied on the boards?
What you should get are some right angle usb and coaxial power plugs, then you can make it like conduit and it will look so boss. ;) ;) ;) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: cablepair on June 05, 2012, 12:29:10 AM ModMiner Quad Prototypes Hashing away Efficiently (1600 Mhash @ 80 Watts)
Mean while the Electricity Hungry BFL's Look on in Jealousy... http://coinraffle.com/mmq1.jpg http://coinraffle.com/mmq2.jpg http://coinraffle.com/mmqvsbfl.jpg http://www.BTCFPGA.com :) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: arklan on June 05, 2012, 02:04:11 AM stop making me want to buy things i can't afford, Cablepair!
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: mufa23 on June 05, 2012, 02:12:16 AM stop making me want to buy things i can't afford, Cablepair! ThisTitle: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: mrb on June 05, 2012, 05:59:18 AM Could have done something ultra-elegant but there's a trade-off between getting the damn things making me money, and playing around trying to be Jonathan Ive. Very true :) Parts of your effort have technical merit (eg. running fans on separate power rails), but the rest is eye-candy that I personally wouldn't want to spend time on (eg. making individual power switches for each FPGA). But congrats, it looks nice! At least, you enjoyed building it. My goal in designing an FPGA farm is to spend the less amount of time setting it up, and to make each part easily serviceable (fans, boards, cables). For example I don't understand at all the other guys stacking up boards with spacers screwed in. If they ever need to replace a board in the middle, they would have to shut the whole stack down, and to disassemble it (ugh!). Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: fizzisist on June 05, 2012, 07:50:38 AM My goal in designing an FPGA farm is to spend the less amount of time setting it up, and to make each part easily serviceable (fans, boards, cables). For example I don't understand at all the other guys stacking up boards with spacers screwed in. If they ever need to replace a board in the middle, they would have to shut the whole stack down, and to disassemble it (ugh!). I suppose that's a good point. But, if a board needs to be replaced, is that 10 minutes of down time such a big deal? Those stack up designs actually build up incredibly fast. The X6500 testing system is done that way, and I have personally assembled and disassembled every X6500 out there in stacks like this, with at least one assembly/disassembly every day on average. Short of something where the boards simply snapped into place, this really seems not half bad. What other ways could you do it? I'm very curious for new ideas. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: mrb on June 05, 2012, 08:11:37 AM fizzisist, the downtime is not such a big deal, but my time is very precious. Why spend 10 minutes disassembling and re-assembling a stack to swap 1 board, when you could do it in 30sec if the board was not in a stack? If you have a small work bench, I can understand why you like the space-saving advantages of stacks of boards. But I don't lack space. I lack time. I work very hard to automate everything and optimize my time as much as I can. I run a farm approaching 80 FPGAs. The difference between a task that takes 30 sec per FPGA, and 10 min per FPGA, is 13 hours of work. So every tiny bit I do to simplify the maintenance of my farm saves me tons of time.
I will post pictures of how I arrange my own boards soon... Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: SamHa1n on June 05, 2012, 10:48:50 AM I used hard drive mounting plates because they slide right out of case giving instant access to remove without interfering with rest of cluster. I will have to come up with something new and saucy for ztex quad boards, had really hoped the holes in pcb lined up with 120mm fan. Right now I am running 2x rev2 x6500 (one of the spartan cores has shit the bed so its just running the remaining 3 cores @ ~500Mh/s on a good day), 20 ztex singles, one BFL single, and an altera terrasic de2-115. Image below is my ztex cluster.
https://i.imgur.com/2PWSvl.jpg (http://imgur.com/2PWSv) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: arklan on June 05, 2012, 11:57:06 AM the more i see pics like this, the more i am convinced of the successful generation of income from mining... pity it'll take me ages to save enough for an FPGA with my current (utterly crap) job and single 6870 GPU mining...
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: cablepair on June 05, 2012, 01:42:45 PM the more i see pics like this, the more i am convinced of the successful generation of income from mining... pity it'll take me ages to save enough for an FPGA with my current (utterly crap) job and single 6870 GPU mining... We offer a financing option at BTCFPGA.com - send an email through the web site to get started. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: arklan on June 05, 2012, 02:29:26 PM the more i see pics like this, the more i am convinced of the successful generation of income from mining... pity it'll take me ages to save enough for an FPGA with my current (utterly crap) job and single 6870 GPU mining... We offer a financing option at BTCFPGA.com - send an email through the web site to get started. ...will do. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: allinvain on June 05, 2012, 02:50:09 PM It's a pity it takes 11 months to pay off some of these fpga miners off.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: cablepair on June 05, 2012, 03:20:51 PM there are many options where you can start out with little money for instance:
You can get started with a back plane $99.99 and a single Spartan 6 plugin card (200mhash) for only $349.99 http://www.btcfpga.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=54 and you can add 1-3 additional Spartan 6 plugin cards when you are ready to upgrade Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: jamesg on June 06, 2012, 02:35:02 PM there are many options where you can start out with little money for instance: You can get started with a back plane $99.99 and a single Spartan 6 plugin card (200mhash) for only $349.99 http://www.btcfpga.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=54 and you can add 1-3 additional Spartan 6 plugin cards when you are ready to upgrade Thanks for turning this thread into your official marketing thread. ::) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: coretechs on June 06, 2012, 03:37:09 PM Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: JWU42 on June 06, 2012, 03:39:23 PM Now that is FPGA pr0n
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rjk on June 06, 2012, 03:39:40 PM http://chrono.firex.org/images/fpgaclu1.jpg Sooooooo sexy.....Back on topic! ;D Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Cablez on June 06, 2012, 05:05:33 PM Oooohhh, Drool................ ;D
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: arklan on June 06, 2012, 05:34:56 PM just wait, when i have me some fpga's i'm gonna make a REAL snazzy set up for em! with etched brass enclosures and and craved wooden frames and... *trails off*
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Syke on June 06, 2012, 05:56:40 PM Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rupy on June 07, 2012, 02:11:14 PM Back on topic! ;D Can you list whats in this? More pictures? Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: crazyates on June 07, 2012, 02:16:36 PM Back on topic! ;D Can you list whats in this? More pictures? Looks like a little of everything! :P +1 for more pics/specs plz ;) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: coretechs on June 07, 2012, 08:17:26 PM That pic is actually a few months old.
The current mix is doing Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: tgmarks on June 07, 2012, 08:23:24 PM That pic is actually a few months old. Right now I have things taken apart and strung all around. I'm waiting for a few final components before I put it back together again and will take some more pics then. What are all the different types of hardware your running with MPBM?The current mix is doing 12.7Gh/s @ 815W (kill-a-watt). MPBM runs everything together perfectly. It is the best FPGA mining software IMHO. :) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: crazyates on June 07, 2012, 08:23:39 PM That pic is actually a few months old. Right now I have things taken apart and strung all around. I'm waiting for a few final components before I put it back together again and will take some more pics then. The current mix is doing 12.7Gh/s @ 815W (kill-a-watt). MPBM runs everything together perfectly. It is the best FPGA mining software IMHO. :) Damn! Post those numbers here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76115.0 ! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: coretechs on June 07, 2012, 08:40:26 PM What are all the different types of hardware your running with MPBM? BFL single, Icarus, and x6500 (rev 2 & 3). I will hopefully be adding some ztex quads if the group-buy makes some progress soon. :) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: bulanula on June 07, 2012, 10:35:12 PM Quote from: coretechs MPBM runs everything together perfectly. It is the best FPGA mining software IMHO. :) Agree ! cgminer for GPU and MPBM for FPGA. Don't try and make cgminer work for FPGAs as that will probably screw up the GPU element at some point. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: davecoin on June 08, 2012, 10:10:09 PM That looks wonderful! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on June 08, 2012, 10:23:58 PM That looks wonderful! My new favorite rig! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Morblias on June 09, 2012, 12:37:40 AM Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on June 09, 2012, 02:19:18 AM ^ lol
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Entropy-uc on June 09, 2012, 03:56:26 PM You give them a 3+ month interest free, no recourse loan, and they won't even give you their full names? You'd think they were selling sex toys out of the back of a van or something. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: ummas on June 09, 2012, 05:21:58 PM 3 of my, looks this same, hmmmmm, strange :(
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: cablepair on June 10, 2012, 01:44:20 AM there are many options where you can start out with little money for instance: You can get started with a back plane $99.99 and a single Spartan 6 plugin card (200mhash) for only $349.99 http://www.btcfpga.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=54 and you can add 1-3 additional Spartan 6 plugin cards when you are ready to upgrade Thanks for turning this thread into your official marketing thread. ::) Thanks for turning every single FPGA thread into the official BFL ass kissing thread, I cant believe you actually said that to me, wow coming from anyone else I would not mind one bit and even agree , you are way to used to people kissing your own ass and not calling you out on shit Every chance you have , any time someone remotely talks about FPGA or BFL its a mini-infomercial starting GigaVPS the Bitcoin worlds old Richie Rich singing the praises about BFL I could find MULTIPLE occurrences of you doing the same exact thing, way more than I have about my own company please giga I know its hard for you to lower your self and mingle with us lower life forms, but please your majesty : dont be a hypocrite and expect me not to call you out on it, I care nothing for popularity at all. I am about the truth. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Turbor on June 10, 2012, 03:31:31 AM there are many options where you can start out with little money for instance: You can get started with a back plane $99.99 and a single Spartan 6 plugin card (200mhash) for only $349.99 http://www.btcfpga.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=54 and you can add 1-3 additional Spartan 6 plugin cards when you are ready to upgrade Thanks for turning this thread into your official marketing thread. ::) Thanks for turning every single FPGA thread into the official BFL ass kissing thread, I cant believe you actually said that to me, wow coming from anyone else I would not mind one bit and even agree , you are way to used to people kissing your own ass and not calling you out on shit Every chance you have , any time someone remotely talks about FPGA or BFL its a mini-infomercial starting GigaVPS the Bitcoin worlds old Richie Rich singing the praises about BFL I could find MULTIPLE occurrences of you doing the same exact thing, way more than I have about my own company please giga I know its hard for you to lower your self and mingle with us lower life forms, but please your majesty : dont be a hypocrite and expect me not to call you out on it, I care nothing for popularity at all. I am about the truth. He's just a bit strict if it comes to OT. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rampone on June 12, 2012, 04:47:58 PM I heard you like FPGA's?
Cairnsmore 1 Quad FPGA Unbocing Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUBDATTkT4Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUBDATTkT4Q) No rig yet though ;) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: arklan on June 12, 2012, 04:55:25 PM that strikes me as a big FPGA. snazzy.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: crazyates on June 12, 2012, 05:17:11 PM that strikes me as a big FPGA. snazzy. That is definitely bigger than I thought it would be...! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: notme on June 12, 2012, 06:45:02 PM I heard you like FPGA's? Cairnsmore 1 Quad FPGA Unbocing Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUBDATTkT4Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUBDATTkT4Q) No rig yet though ;) Nice sound effects... It must be fun to be you. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: cablepair on June 12, 2012, 11:07:18 PM this is a FPGA Photo Thread Right?
Well here you go..... ;) http://btcwebhost.com/images/newmmq2.jpg http://btcwebhost.com/images/newmmq4.jpg http://btcwebhost.com/images/newmmq1.jpg Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rampone on June 13, 2012, 03:24:26 AM I like that one, refreshing original fans ;)
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: crazyates on June 13, 2012, 04:26:46 AM Thanks for turning this thread into your official marketing thread. ::) Sorry, I had to. <3 Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: crazyates on June 13, 2012, 04:27:23 AM If it weren't white, maybe I'd buy it...
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Bitcoin Oz on June 13, 2012, 06:55:01 AM If it weren't white, maybe I'd buy it... Thats what steve jobs said Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: cablepair on June 13, 2012, 12:10:15 PM If it weren't white, maybe I'd buy it... YOUR IN LUCK :P https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79637.msg959114#msg959114 Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Zeronic on June 13, 2012, 06:49:10 PM Cool design, thou whats with the 2 PIN GPU Fan connected to a 3 PIN Header (Prototype)?
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: crosby on June 13, 2012, 08:18:01 PM NICE !! now, let's see this baby dance RAVE RIG - FPGA bitcoin mining cluster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsLF9PdNzxg enjoy Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rjk on June 13, 2012, 08:33:20 PM NICE !! now, let's see this baby dance lol that's awesome!RAVE RIG - FPGA bitcoin mining cluster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsLF9PdNzxg enjoy Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Dexter770221 on June 13, 2012, 09:29:46 PM Great!
Disco time... Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: wknight on June 13, 2012, 09:38:30 PM there are many options where you can start out with little money for instance: You can get started with a back plane $99.99 and a single Spartan 6 plugin card (200mhash) for only $349.99 http://www.btcfpga.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=54 and you can add 1-3 additional Spartan 6 plugin cards when you are ready to upgrade Thanks for turning this thread into your official marketing thread. ::) Thanks for turning every single FPGA thread into the official BFL ass kissing thread, I cant believe you actually said that to me, wow coming from anyone else I would not mind one bit and even agree , you are way to used to people kissing your own ass and not calling you out on shit Every chance you have , any time someone remotely talks about FPGA or BFL its a mini-infomercial starting GigaVPS the Bitcoin worlds old Richie Rich singing the praises about BFL I could find MULTIPLE occurrences of you doing the same exact thing, way more than I have about my own company please giga I know its hard for you to lower your self and mingle with us lower life forms, but please your majesty : dont be a hypocrite and expect me not to call you out on it, I care nothing for popularity at all. I am about the truth. This attitude is why i wont ever order anything from BTCfpga. This isn't the first post you have shown such a unprofessional attitude. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on June 13, 2012, 11:48:24 PM Awesome!
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: ummas on June 14, 2012, 12:43:31 AM Holly, molly!
Artwork ;) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: BFL on June 14, 2012, 03:42:17 AM NICE !! now, let's see this baby dance RAVE RIG - FPGA bitcoin mining cluster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsLF9PdNzxg enjoy Holy cow... that's awesome! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Garr255 on June 14, 2012, 03:43:56 AM http://chrono.firex.org/images/fpgaclu1.jpg Back on topic! ;D NICE !! now, let's see this baby dance RAVE RIG - FPGA bitcoin mining cluster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsLF9PdNzxg enjoy Holy cow... that's awesome! (only because BFL is on top...) :P It is cool though :) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: pazor on June 14, 2012, 02:26:02 PM look at this!
bfl single water cooled :D https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=42262.msg945444#msg945444 Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: streetuff on July 04, 2012, 06:18:10 PM Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: crosby on July 04, 2012, 06:30:36 PM very nice
but does it dance ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsLF9PdNzxg Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: streetuff on July 04, 2012, 06:31:29 PM LMAO!
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: tarrant_01 on July 04, 2012, 07:53:38 PM Someone should probably send a single to BlendTec.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: crosby on July 04, 2012, 08:55:54 PM Someone should probably send a single to BlendTec. or at least some of those jalapenos if/when they come out ! Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: davidspitzer on July 14, 2012, 06:23:57 AM My first single is up I am waiting for 10 -12 more from various sources
I got the rack from Sam's Club for $49 and the Custom Cooling Fan :) on the left from Walmart for $12 I used the new auto tuner from BFL and it seems to be running well https://i.imgur.com/7iYE0l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TL7Lel.jpg Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Turbor on July 14, 2012, 12:19:02 PM My first single is up I am waiting for 10 -12 more from various sources I got the rack from Sam's Club for $49 and the Custom Cooling Fan :) on the left from Walmart for $12 I used the new auto tuner from BFL and it seems to be running well Looks good. We can use every single on BitMinter ;) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: bitcool on July 14, 2012, 07:13:09 PM My first single is up I am waiting for 10 -12 more from various sources Being so close to the wall, the airflow of the fan is greatly reduced. IMO.I got the rack from Sam's Club for $49 and the Custom Cooling Fan :) on the left from Walmart for $12 I used the new auto tuner from BFL and it seems to be running well Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: davidspitzer on July 14, 2012, 07:15:50 PM My first single is up I am waiting for 10 -12 more from various sources Being so close to the wall, the airflow of the fan is greatly reduced. IMO.I got the rack from Sam's Club for $49 and the Custom Cooling Fan :) on the left from Walmart for $12 I used the new auto tuner from BFL and it seems to be running well It works quite well there is an AC vent right above that blows down the wall. The single has averaged 853mh/s without one instance if throttling Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: bitcool on July 14, 2012, 07:32:40 PM My first single is up I am waiting for 10 -12 more from various sources Being so close to the wall, the airflow of the fan is greatly reduced. IMO.I got the rack from Sam's Club for $49 and the Custom Cooling Fan :) on the left from Walmart for $12 I used the new auto tuner from BFL and it seems to be running well It works quite well there is an AC vent right above that blows down the wall. The single has averaged 853mh/s without one instance if throttling I haven't used a FPGA -- does it really need a box fan at all? Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: davidspitzer on July 14, 2012, 07:34:31 PM My first single is up I am waiting for 10 -12 more from various sources Being so close to the wall, the airflow of the fan is greatly reduced. IMO.I got the rack from Sam's Club for $49 and the Custom Cooling Fan :) on the left from Walmart for $12 I used the new auto tuner from BFL and it seems to be running well It works quite well there is an AC vent right above that blows down the wall. The single has averaged 853mh/s without one instance if throttling I haven't used a FPGA -- does it really need a box fan at all? With one it does not seem so but perhaps when I put 10 more on that shelf Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: kibblesnbits on July 14, 2012, 08:55:20 PM That single looks pretty lonely... What a difference from the GPU rigs stretched out on coat-hangers and USPS boxes.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: davidspitzer on July 14, 2012, 08:56:23 PM That single looks pretty lonely... What a difference from the GPU rigs stretched out on coat-hangers and USPS boxes. It will have some friends soon Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: cablepair on July 16, 2012, 10:48:26 PM 210 Mhash FPGA Miner Hosted on a Raspberry Pi! Total Rig Electrical Usage 10.9 watts!
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/--WcFKRqnqCs/UARNUNSbxII/AAAAAAAAAps/7L9j5-57lZ0/w497-h373/12%2B-%2B1 Mining Stats Here: http://eligius.st/~artefact2/7/1NasVy9cRVT6nUekR2oPRP93xroGxdWZZZ Web Site Coming Soon: (also hosted on the RPI!) Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: dankroxel on July 19, 2012, 01:25:41 AM My first single is up I am waiting for 10 -12 more from various sources I got the rack from Sam's Club for $49 and the Custom Cooling Fan :) on the left from Walmart for $12 I used the new auto tuner from BFL and it seems to be running well I like your set up, this is exactly what I had in mind while I'm waiting for my singles, and SC's. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Phraust on July 19, 2012, 05:51:16 PM With one it does not seem so but perhaps when I put 10 more on that shelf I'd seriously consider moving to a bigger PSU that will support all of the units when you get them. The stock power supplies are HOT. Cablez on the forum makes custom PCIe to BFL cables that work great. I am using a Corsair AX1200 that ran 10 BFLs just fine (I think it can handle up to 12). It's more efficient as well, I saw my total power usage drop to about 75 watts per unit, as opposed to 85 each using the stock PSUs. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: nedbert9 on July 19, 2012, 07:55:58 PM With one it does not seem so but perhaps when I put 10 more on that shelf I'd seriously consider moving to a bigger PSU that will support all of the units when you get them. The stock power supplies are HOT. Cablez on the forum makes custom PCIe to BFL cables that work great. I am using a Corsair AX1200 that ran 10 BFLs just fine (I think it can handle up to 12). It's more efficient as well, I saw my total power usage drop to about 75 watts per unit, as opposed to 85 each using the stock PSUs. +1 The individual power supplies do get very hot and many have reported failures. Going with an ATX PSU is up to you. Easy enough to do if you have the parts/time/$180 and you can find someone on the forum, probably, to put it together entirely and send it to you. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: smracer on July 19, 2012, 11:46:54 PM https://i.imgur.com/btJzrl.jpg (http://imgur.com/btJzr)
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Cablez on July 20, 2012, 12:03:29 AM Wow, somebody has been busy!! :o :o :o
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rjk on July 20, 2012, 12:18:21 AM https://i.imgur.com/btJzr.jpg Holy shit, now we know why BFL hasn't been delivering to everyone else.I count 42, all on stock bricks (?!?!?!) - protip: Almost any standard power supply will be more efficient and require less cable clutter. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: crazyates on July 20, 2012, 12:27:49 AM DAMN! You gonna trade all those in?
Is it sad those still dont quite equal one of the SC Singles? Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Beaflag VonRathburg on July 20, 2012, 01:40:46 AM https://i.imgur.com/btJzr.jpg Holy shit, now we know why BFL hasn't be delivering to everyone else.I count 42, all on stock bricks (?!?!?!) - protip: Almost any standard power supply will be more efficient and require less cable clutter. Eeek! I counted the same number. Should be close to 35GH depending on firmware. I was going to post a picture of my ten singles, but after seeing that I don't think it is worth it. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: pieppiep on July 20, 2012, 07:09:50 AM The USB2.0 spec says that each hub supports 4 connections, so the reason why there are so many 7 port hubs (a weird number in computing, generally) is because they have two hub controllers ganged together inside. I've pulled enough cheap USB hubs apart (that wouldn't work with my FPGA setup) to find that this is the norm, and even the more expensive Belkin kit does the same thing, and uses the same controllers. I can't find anything about a maximum of connections for a hub. IIRC there is no limit on this. Only limits I know about maximum connections are the 127 total connections and the maximum chain depth (IIRC somewhere around 6).It is true most hubs use the same controller chip, so a 7 port hub is really 2 4 ports hubs connected together. A quote from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hub#Electronic_design) : Quote Most support a four-port hub system, but hubs using 16-port hub controllers are also available in the industry. although some 16-port hub actually consist of four cascaded four-port controllers. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: mrb on July 20, 2012, 07:38:58 AM My 7-port USB switches use a single controller chip (Rosewill RHB-330, based on the Terminus-Tech FE 2.1 controller). I carefully selected them over switches using ganged controllers for better reliability.
catfish: I have 13 quad 1.15y boards on the same PC (52 FPGAs total), and the setup is very reliable. FPGAs are detected all the time. I have not measured current flow through my USB cables, but it is probably small. Note that I do power my boards via the pluggable terminal, not via the 5.5mm jack. The mechanical and electrical design of the pluggable terminal is superior to the jack which reduces resistance and probably helps reduce current flow in the USB cables. (Stefan recommends to connect 2 ground wires to the pluggable terminal, but I didn't even bother, as I have no reliability issue with 1 ground wire.) Also, my FPGAs are powered by the same PSU that powers the host PC. I imagine that using 2 different power supplies for the PC and the FPGAs might increase the risk of current flow in the USB cables. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: punin on July 20, 2012, 08:49:02 AM Anyone else here with over 4 Ztex single boards finding that they leak a HELL of a lot of power back into the USB connection? All my Ztex FPGAs connect to pukka powered USB hubs. Each USB hub has a separate 5V 1A power cable. The USB2.0 spec says that each hub supports 4 connections, so the reason why there are so many 7 port hubs (a weird number in computing, generally) is because they have two hub controllers ganged together inside. I've pulled enough cheap USB hubs apart (that wouldn't work with my FPGA setup) to find that this is the norm, and even the more expensive Belkin kit does the same thing, and uses the same controllers. My 20 unit FPGA board has a very low power integrated AMD logic board underneath and an 800W ATX PSU. The separate power rails use PCIe power leads from the PSU. This should be *massively* overprovisioned for power, and I've soldered up the power rails and 2.1/5.5 barrel plugs using 18AWG cable, which should be adequate at 12V to supply only 5 of the Ztex 1.15x boards. Fans are powered from a separate circuit. This should be over-engineered... but the amount of trouble I had getting USB hubs to work surprised the hell out of me. Using a passive hub and 5 FPGAs (two 4-port hubs, one with three FPGAs connected, the other with two FPGAs and the input from the first hub) took hours of trial and error to get all the FPGAs recognised. Stefan mentions repeatedly in his online documentation that multiple ground cables are required, and the problems I saw appear to be due to current returning from the FPGA board via the USB cable ground. These are tiny wires and can't carry much current. I think this may be a very simple question so I've put it here... if it's more complicated then it ought to have its own thread. I like the quality, proven performance, warranty and support that Ztex gives... but even following his 'cluster power supply' advice re: ground cables vs. power cables, I ended up taking a few days and various USB hubs to get all the units working. The logic board had plenty of powered USB sockets and I had to use most of them. I really want to use my Raspberry Pi to control a huge FPGA assembly, but the strict current limits on the Raspberry Pi USB socket seems to make this impossible. Anyone know what's going on, from an electronic engineering perspective? Are ALL the competing boards going to have similar issues - i.e. am I doing something obviously wrong? Is there any way to sling a resistor into the USB ground return wire (or some other solution - I'm not an EE) to discourage the FPGA current from returning via the USB cable, and instead following the low-resistance multiple-ground-wire route like it should? My 20 unit assembly ended up using 6 USB hubs, two of them powered, thus a snakepit of cables below the tidy top level and lots of power points required. I know the total power draw is low and the system is incredibly efficient. But if I wanted to build a 100 unit assembly? I'd need 30 USB hubs, which is bloody ridiculous. Big backplanes are the way to go but only if the data, as well as the power, is aggregated on the backplane. I'd really appreciate feedback from those with first-hand experience of the kit I'm most likely to buy (Ztex, Enterpoint, BTCFPGA.com, any others competitively priced in EU?)... Hi catfish, I've been running mine with a deal-extreme-sourced-el-cheapo-pink-hub á la https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84656.msg953674#msg953674 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84656.msg953674#msg953674). The hub needs to be powered to run over 6-7 1.15x boards unless connected to an ATX mobo with sufficiently powered USB port (IIRC ztex each 1.15x draws ~100mA). My cluster's power supply is built just as ztex has instructed, 5 boards to +12V, max 3 boards to GND of PCIe power cables. NOTE: RPi will not be able to deliver enough current to USB to run a big cluster with passive hubs. Also, RPi tends to draw current from powered hubs through the USB ports, which makes it behave erratically, so make sure you tape the USB plugs' +5V lead before connecting your powered HUB into RPi's USB port. I used a thin strip of black electric tape, works fine now, uptime over a week using my friend's ARM-port of BTCMiner http://blog.villekangas.com/?p=23 Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: rjk on July 20, 2012, 01:16:26 PM Wouldn't it be normal to have a diode on the +5v USB line to prevent feeding current back into the hub or port?
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: punin on July 20, 2012, 01:32:33 PM Wouldn't it be normal to have a diode on the +5v USB line to prevent feeding current back into the hub or port? I don't know should that diode be in the HUB or RPi, but the fact remains, and the easiest fix is aforementioned taping of the contact. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: randomguy7 on July 20, 2012, 03:57:16 PM Wouldn't it be normal to have a diode on the +5v USB line to prevent feeding current back into the hub or port? Ztex mentioned somewhere that +5V from usb isn't connected on the board. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Morblias on July 21, 2012, 10:04:30 PM Finally got my 1st BFL single! Next one should be here next week and 2 more in ~3 weeks! Pretty weak setup compared to most, but I am excited :p
2 ATI 5870s and 1 BFL single with my other computer hiding in the background and a windows A/C since it's been ~90-100 degrees here for the past month: https://i.imgur.com/Le9cd.jpg https://i.imgur.com/1rXFd.jpg Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: tgmarks on July 23, 2012, 06:58:44 AM With the A/C thats a whole lot of electricity for the amount of bitcoin your producing. No way that setup is cost effective.
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: ssateneth on July 23, 2012, 07:25:45 AM With the A/C thats a whole lot of electricity for the amount of bitcoin your producing. No way that setup is cost effective. I see a computer behind the whatever is beneath the single and 2 card rig. That is probably his room.. Need it to be comfortable for him, not the pc equipment Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Morblias on July 23, 2012, 01:29:38 PM With the A/C thats a whole lot of electricity for the amount of bitcoin your producing. No way that setup is cost effective. I see a computer behind the whatever is beneath the single and 2 card rig. That is probably his room.. Need it to be comfortable for him, not the pc equipment Yep, it's mainly for me. It is still profitable paying only .04USD/kWh (well .11, but split 3 ways :p), but this month has been ~100 degrees out almost every day and I am sweating like crazy without it on! haha Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Slipbye on July 24, 2012, 11:51:37 PM Thought i would pop up a few pic's of my first rig i knocked togeather for the cairnsmore1 boards. Not very pretty and the wiring is a bit of a mess till i get the up/down link cables working but it will get sorted before it's racked.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7253/7640238080_e3b2d4fc0f_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78764399@N08/7640238080/) IMG_0318 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78764399@N08/7640238080/) by Slipbye (http://www.flickr.com/people/78764399@N08/), on Flickr http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8160/7640242770_1e31685112_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78764399@N08/7640242770/) IMG_0300 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78764399@N08/7640242770/) by Slipbye (http://www.flickr.com/people/78764399@N08/), on Flickrhttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7119/7640243644_54ee68f66c_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78764399@N08/7640243644/) cmboards (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78764399@N08/7640243644/) by Slipbye (http://www.flickr.com/people/78764399@N08/), on Flickr http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7262/7640232894_a1a8f789af_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78764399@N08/7640232894/) IMG_0324 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78764399@N08/7640232894/) by Slipbye (http://www.flickr.com/people/78764399@N08/), on Flickr Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Cablez on July 25, 2012, 12:14:09 AM Very nice setup, now if only they will start hashing at their full potential. :)
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: BR0KK on July 25, 2012, 01:02:33 AM I'm getting jealous...... I have only 14 Spartans mining here for me (2 Quads and 6 Singles from Ztex) :D
And ist a ghetto rig; http://www.abload.de/img/img_0546bwp86.jpg i desperately need to build a case for them some time :/ Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Turbor on July 25, 2012, 10:54:39 AM Very nice setup slipbye. That's a dense 40 GH once they deliver. Just hashing to the wrong pool :P
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: freshzive on August 01, 2012, 04:26:54 AM I'm getting jealous...... I have only 14 Spartans mining here for me (2 Quads and 6 Singles from Ztex) :D And ist a ghetto rig; http://www.abload.de/img/img_0546bwp86.jpg i desperately need to build a case for them some time :/ Haha. This looks similar to my setup except I've got x6500s and they're stashed even more haphazardly in a closet with a giant box fan. Whatever, it works. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: davidspitzer on August 12, 2012, 12:28:44 AM Here is my final setup for my 11 BFL Singles (patiently awaiting to go home when the ASICS arrive) - They average about 9200 MH/S total
https://i.imgur.com/OWBV1l.jpg Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: papaminer on August 12, 2012, 03:34:30 AM Here is my final setup for my 11 BFL Singles (patiently awaiting to go home when the ASICS arrive) - They average about 9200 MH/S total https://i.imgur.com/OWBV1l.jpg Hi, I think I saw a few of your post where it says you are buying some SINGLES. Anyway, I asked BFL this: Are you allowed to upgrade to ASIC when you buy your SINGLES aside from BFL itself? I got no reply yet, but I am assuming you know the answer to this? Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: davidspitzer on August 12, 2012, 03:53:19 AM They will take any bfl item in trade whether purchased from them or someone else
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: papaminer on August 12, 2012, 04:20:17 AM Nice!
Thanks a lot for that! :) I was thinking 50/50 maybe they will get mad because they did not get that extra $ or it is fine as long as the product is in good condition and they get another 50% added for the upgrade. Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: davidspitzer on August 12, 2012, 04:33:34 AM http://www.butterflylabs.com/bitforce-sc-release-notes/
Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: papaminer on August 23, 2012, 10:50:39 PM https://i.imgur.com/btJzrl.jpg (http://imgur.com/btJzr) I just pm'ed him and asked if he/she wanted to sell any of those.. and I got a NO NO.. because he's said he's gonna upgrade them all to ASIC.. DAMNNNN... /me jelly Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Zeronic on October 04, 2012, 09:30:47 PM https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7trVsI2DymRdkdEZ1FuWEZ1bW8
http://i50.tinypic.com/2z4a9vb.jpg Title: Re: FPGA Rig Photos Post by: Spekulatius on April 18, 2013, 01:34:55 AM Hi,
I am Spekulatius, director and producer of the first Bitcoin Documentary (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=149892.0). We touch on many aspects of the Bitcoin cosmos and of course no picture of it would be complete without the miners and their rigs! So we would like to visit some dedicated people and show their rigs in our movie. Are there any people from around Europe here to show off their best parts on camera;)? Greetings from Germany, Spekulatius |
