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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: DIY FPGA Mining rig for any algorithm with fast ROI
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on: May 26, 2018, 05:41:45 AM
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Hi,
Really interesting thread! I am beginning to mine using FGPA boards. I have been GPU and asic mining for the past year or so and have been interested in the FGPA side of things since hearing of it recently. I have purchased a Terasic DE0-Nano-SoC Development and Education Board to begin my learning. Can you say if any of your algo's will be compatible with the board mentioned? 1GB DDR3 ram and ARM dual processor.
Best,
Karl.
The DE0-Nano-SoC is a great board to get into learning this stuff. I have this and a few of the Max10 50kLE boards that I occasionally use for initial RTL hardware evaluation because their just so easy to work with. Vivado and Xilinx’s tools are steeper learning curve, but definitely doable. With that said, the Cyclone V 5CSEMA4U23C6N on that board is about 1/5th the logic of what I’m proposing and while it has high-speed DMA to the ARM cores, it doesn’t have any high speed IO such as PCIe to other peripherals. That makes it tough to use outside of single small algorithms (I.e. Keccak). The $199 version of the M.2 has ~100 Logic Elements and the $329 version has more than 200, capable of running at higher speed. The top package also has 1GB DDR3. Peak power consumption is around 15W from on-board M.2 Here’s an update summary for those catching up on this thread: 1. A few of us have been working on algorithms on FPGAs, and they’re profitable. Whitefire990 intents to release his with miner/dev fee and others of us have decided to share with the community in various forms as well. 2. On the high end the VCU1525, based on the VU9P is a very good candidate for this. It is currently a Xilinx development board on promotion for $3995, but only very small batches are being produced and the price is set to go up. Some algorithms require connecting multiple with high speed links to achieve the best performance. 3. Senseless (and possibly self, if I can be helpful) have been organizing essentially a group buy - but with FPGAs it’s less of a group buy and more of a group build. That is expected to ramp up the VCU1525 style (some power/cooling improvements) availblility in a similar price envelope to Xilinx dev version. Working on production in US and Europe so it can be available everywhere. 4. I’ve also decided to reveal one of the smaller FPGA options in the $200-350 price envelope that I had developed for internal use and deploy, to provide an entry level option. It has a slightly different set of capabilities from the big VCU1525, but for many things it does scale. For both hardware offerings from the community (and possibly others) orders are expected to start in June. These boards are not so much for Ethash (though they can be used to assist/accelerate GPUs in it) , or Equihash. They excel , can improve total system performance on, or are at an advantage on Keccak (and most SHA3 candidate) , Phi variants, NIST5, Timetravel10, Lyra/LyraRev2, etc. Someone else can chime in if I missed anything. Damn. Watching your stuff with interest. Got any specs on the smaller FPGA option? Which specs are you looking for? Device specs or specific algo performance? i'm also interested in the small one, if it's more fast than a 1080 or near that perf, but you said that it scale so it should be around 12 times slower or around that, this mean 2.5 faster tahn a 1070 right?
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Mining , still worth it?
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on: May 25, 2018, 06:52:19 AM
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it depend on your electricity rate, up to 0.2 is still profitable, even at 0.3 cent there is still tiny profit, with 0.1 cent you have a good return with a big farm, if you are casual don't mother too much, you can make more with real life job
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: DIY FPGA Mining rig for any algorithm with fast ROI
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on: May 16, 2018, 02:48:20 PM
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LUX is doing a hardfork to stay asic and FPGA resistant! Good for me as i have not had the balls to order a fpga Source? We are pleased to announce PHI2 public testing has commenced on one of our testnets!
These new changes include FPGA and ASIC protection...along with 30-60% power reduction, and lower temps Full release won't happen until we do a fork and introduce Segwit, Smart Contracts, POW/POS/MN reward changes and a few other things
Test pool: http://testpool.luxcore.io/ CC Miner: http://www.luxcore.io/files/ccminer-new-phi.zip
ccminer-x64.exe -a phi2 -o stratum+tcp://testpool.luxcore.io:3033 -u address -p x -i 21
Note: There are no rewards for testing - We are looking forward to your feedback! Not surprising, given that few 1000s of these FPGAs can destroy the Phi network. he just need to reprogram his fpga, there isn't any asic or fpga protection all illusion, there is just profitable enough or not profitable enough to make an asic/fpga for it
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: DIY FPGA Mining rig for any algorithm with fast ROI
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on: May 10, 2018, 05:44:51 AM
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That Nvidia will release a GPU that is 100% faster than 1070 for 330 USD (which is you price in the comparison) is quite unrealistic This generation we had quite a boost, yet the 1060 is only about 12% faster than a 970 as an example. And dont forget the difference in power consumption! I would love a single FPGA instead of a 1080 ti rig, but have to see that it works first. Lead time in Norway is 12 weeks though will be 500 at launch( so 15 1170 vs this board will be $4000 vs $7500)as usual and 700 for the 1180 which is arguably as a fast as this fpga board for the same cost and same consumption with some tweaking a 1170 will consume 100 watt, tdp of a 1180 which is a strongest card is the same as 1070ti which consume only 100, so a 1170 will consume less probably at lower tdp You are dreaming if you think the new 1180 will be as fast as this card. The 1180 will be an incremental improvement over the outgoing 1080, and even if it was faster than a Titan it will still be far slower. Depending on the algorithm, we're talking about an FPGA that looks like it can be equivalent to 10+ Titan's! not as a fast but not so far away FOR THE SAME COST, people need to read better, i was not talking 1vs1 unless you think that a 1180 will cost $4000...
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell / Pascal kernels.
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on: May 09, 2018, 01:12:02 PM
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i'm getting 13.5mh with x16r on 1070ti at 60% tdp +100 core 400 mem, what are you guys getting?
Depends on the sequence numbers, and how long you meassure the average rate. Testing for a few hours isn't enough. Testing x16S is more accurate, since the order is permuted and not random (every hashing algo excecuted once) in X16S you have 16! combinations (2.092278988 E+13), in X16R 16^16 (1.8 E+18) still getting 14mh for some round of some algo, i know there are 16 round of algo right? some do less hash other more the average is 66MH with 6 gpu, so 11mh, this is a 6 hours test already, btw this is with your mod sp version 3
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