I searched, but couldn't find mention on this forum about this, but GPUDirect might help:

  https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirect

This might help HD mining..maybe.

From the looks of it. They have a substantial sum of potential money wrapped up in Pre-Orders.  So they are going to string this out until the people stop sending them money.

It might be worth it to actually go to Manchester with a contingent of scheme holders and demand to see their operation. Call it a business visit. Good luck!

Here is another scheduled for deletion soon:
Bladerunner


Re: Refund Update

« Reply #64 on: Today at 02:35:20 AM »
"2. Why did we go with the Loyalty Bonus Scheme?

It quite frankly works in the same way as shares would work, however without the additional administrative cost and burden. Those who are worried about the dividends being given to shareholders at alpha technology's discretion should note this would have been the case anyway, even with shares as 70% shareholding would still have been held by Mr Akram and Mr Laurus between them, making them the majority shareholders and decision makers in any case.
"

Bullshit it works like shares.. Its been renamed a "scheme" which is what it is. It is "at Your option to pay dividends"
Obviously you think that were a bunch of idiots that never ran a corporation and dont know how this works.  As a customer, Dont insult my intelligence. You also try to tell us, "its too complicated to issue shares", also bullshit.
I have kept my end of the contract. You are paid in full. Deliver the hardware by the due date or be in default of the contract. (Oct 1, 2014) At which time Alpha will owe its customers 100% of their paid in full money commitment to your company. 

Just because your In the UK does not mean that I and perhaps many other of your "loyal customers" cannot file a legal suit, shut down your company freeze your accounts.  maybe a "class action" type of consumer protection suit is going to be in order.

Interesting the only 2 things at this address from:

https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/alpha-technology-(int)


is Saddique & Co. Accounting

and

Saints Solicitors LLP 

Both these places I would not walk into...unless I was trying to hide money..then I would need guns too..(the guns to keep the proprietors honest)

I think we need X11 asic's.. What do you think?..I think we should get together and start an X11 chip development. I bet we could get to Terahash fast! We should call it: Xtra-One-One Corporation. First Batch out November.  No-Preorder..just when available first come..first serve.

Has anyone actually received that email from alpha? Or is it a fake e-mail? Because on the forums a bunch of purchasers have not received the Refund e-mail.

By doing Pre-Orders for batch 2 they are trying to extract funds to pay off those that are requesting refunds for batch 1. Pyramid scheme anyone?  batch 3 pre-orders coming soon!...heh

Here is some feedback from the Alpha T buyers: 

Quote from: UltraRUS on Today at 06:30:29 PM
This full obsurd, I paid 100% deposit, they only return on Offer 30% and 70% take for themselves. This is a complete shit.

Did you get an email? Please post it..
They can't keep 70%, i paid in full and ordered first day. I would go with 70-80 percent back.
« Last Edit: Today at 06:39:03 PM by jochem »

Funny..because those are toasters.

I wanted to capture this before it gets deleted: From Mick on the Alpha T forum: "I had a a few Friends  in Manchester go to the Alpha office  The place has been abandoned for months (phone disconnected, fl mail piled up in the doorway). The general consensus from the the local people and businesses is that Alpha are a bunch of crooks and their customers have been scammed.

Mubasher Akram ... if I do not have my order to 2 October
or my money is completely with me again.
  then some of my Albanian friends are in England begin to seek you.

consider yourself lucky if you
  the police found earlier."

 This is the actual board not made by Dexcel, but by Calixto:

        http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/File:CS_AM335x_VERSA_SOM_WLAN.jpg

It looks like Dexcel made a prototype controller for this so-dimm System on Module, but what doesn't make sense is why they are connecting to that old relic via USB of the Computer(Server) on Pcie board. That doesn't even work really unless you do some very interesting things with drivers. The Calixto AM335x is its own computer capable of running Linux.

Also the block diagrams are shit. Every graphic I have seen from these guys are total crap. The new pic of the HTPC with a sticker with their logo on it is an interesting setup. But the new schematics doesn't even show the correct on silicone algorithm chain for the Application Specific IC.

In my opinion..they are total crap. Someone should contact Dexcel to see if they will give us any information on what their Prototype process is to see how easy/hard it is to get something built for the SoM. Then follow it up to see if Alpha's contract is still being honored.

Here is the SBC that Alpha used in their propaganda:

http://www.cnx-software.com/tag/som/page/10/

It was released in 2012.

They probably found one for cheap on the internet somewhere. I am still looking for their "Controller Board".. Which is complete crap.

I wonder if we use burst coin with an Cuda Intergrated CPU/GPU like the Tegra TK-1...and hook that up to a SSD farm. Would we be able to plot faster using the 192 cores to plot or would it still get slowed down by the 4 Arm cores?

Here is XCN with 3 Cards (K6000, K40, and a 650Ti)

using DJM's v7 ccminer.

I have been following these "pre-orders" since last year. I this scam has been going around for a while. The problem is not knowing when they are actually legitimate or not. When they promise the moon it is too good to be true. But if you follow the chain from China and Taiwan you can get a good idea as to what maybe happening. Usually their knock-offs show up there first.... What I don't understand is why are people still trying to bid on these contracts on ebay..here is a link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alpha-Technologies-Viper-Scrypt-Miner-250MH-s-Litecoin-Dogecoin-/181506702674?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a42a47d52

I don't understand

Goodluck with the Xeon Phi.  It is a nice piece of hardware. I still think the K6000 outshines it. I don't like the fact that they(Intel) are still pushing: X86/X64...we need to move on from that.

Here is a great talk by Bret Victor on the subject:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4

DJM34:

  Yes for the most part FFT works on real numbers and used mostly for signal processing, but transforms can work in cryptography. There is this white paper that I posted earlier: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/187.pdf  and the following is a way to multiply integers using FFT:
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~ando/pdfs/Ando_Emerencia_multiplying_huge_integers_using_fourier_transforms_paper.pdf.  

I am still researching FFT and the 256-512 algos to determine how to work the pseudocode together and make a working piece of code that will use cuFFT in the end. (using CCMiner that uses cuFFT..I am thinking that we can get huge speed increases because of the way the transforms are implemented.) I am still learning, and I have to remember back when I took Linear Algebra and Diff Eqs in college..this isn't easy, but there is always a way.  

I am getting closer...

check this out:

    (we expect) "FFT to complete in somewhere around 50 ms, while our slow algorithm would take nearly 20 hours!"-http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/08/28/understanding-the-fft/

I working on translating jha_keccak512 to use cuFFT right now. wish me luck.

Cuda 6.5RC has been released to the Devs, and I am telling you that if we can crack cuFFT..as Nvidia Cudaminer would be king..

here is a quote from the 6.5 enhancements:


Using cuFFT callbacks for higher performance custom processing on input or output data