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Title: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: davidspitzer on June 18, 2012, 01:50:42 PM Do you guys have any favorites for use with an Array of USB connected FPGA boards and in the Future ASIC boards. I am looking for a low power device of course that has enough power to run the mining boards but does not have unnecessary computing/power draw. Something space conscience also perhaps.
Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: rudrigorc2 on June 18, 2012, 01:53:05 PM Raspberry PI? ;D Thats my favorite! waiting the 8 week delivery!
Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: davidspitzer on June 18, 2012, 01:54:37 PM Raspberry PI? ;D Thats my favorite! waiting the 8 week delivery! have you tried one out yet? Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: rudrigorc2 on June 18, 2012, 01:57:51 PM Raspberry PI? ;D Thats my favorite! waiting the 8 week delivery! have you tried one out yet? I will. But If simpler openwrt routers can handle this task why Raspberry wouldnt? As soon I get it will try with MPBM until a good soul ports cgminer for ARM Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: davidspitzer on June 18, 2012, 01:58:56 PM sounds reasonable -
Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: davidspitzer on June 18, 2012, 02:25:12 PM sounds reasonable - where did you order yours from? Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: rudrigorc2 on June 18, 2012, 02:40:10 PM sounds reasonable - where did you order yours from? I will do that for testing purpose only, RPi too powerful to be only a host for miners... I registered here: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: Epoch on June 18, 2012, 02:58:12 PM Also worth considering is Asus's line of EeeBox PCs.
For example, the EB1012P (dual-core Atom) or EB1021 (dual core AMD E-450). Both are small (less than 1 litre volume), low-energy (less than 25W), and have 6 USB ports. The 'barebones' versions (no HD, no OS ... you provide your own) retail under $190; fully loaded versions are about double that. These are overkill for an FPGA host, but have the advantage of decent-enough performance that they can actually be used for 'useful' work while mining. Here is a 1021 to get an idea: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41aIsRuvMFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: davidspitzer on June 18, 2012, 03:13:26 PM what do you think of something like this
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=19426316&findingMethod=rr (http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=19426316&findingMethod=rr) or http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-NTI1200 (http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-NTI1200) Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: Epoch on June 18, 2012, 03:33:53 PM what do you think of something like this Yup, same idea as the EeeBox.http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=19426316&findingMethod=rr (http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=19426316&findingMethod=rr) or http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-NTI1200 (http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-NTI1200) Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: davidspitzer on June 18, 2012, 05:14:54 PM What brand of OpenWRT router are people using - I might play around with one of those for a bit but I want to get one that has had the kinks worked out as I am no hip on creating a build from scratch for one
Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: BR0KK on June 19, 2012, 01:06:37 PM i have a mr3420 with open wrt, but my small knowledge of linux makes it hard for me to compile an openwork with cg miner .....
openWRT runs by default but u will run into space constrains since RAM and memory ar damn low on that thing:( Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: davidspitzer on June 19, 2012, 01:35:36 PM I just acquired a Raspberry Pi (B) from a friend in the UK - He mailed it out yesterday so i will play around with that when it arrives
Title: Re: PC for FPGA Mining Rig Post by: BR0KK on June 19, 2012, 01:37:26 PM i will get one to this or next month :D
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