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July 21, 2011, 12:52:07 AM
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Out of pure curiosity, has anyone tried some old sun sparc procs and mining ? Even though Sun is dead (god rest her soul, don't bother to try to tel me otherwise Wink I know there's lots of boxes still hiding in datacenters and basements.. so has anyone thrown a miner on one just to see the mash rate? The whole sparc arch is a risc processor, so it does work differently than x86 chips.. just wonder how they stacked up to today's intel procs.
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July 21, 2011, 07:01:34 AM
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July 24, 2011, 02:36:27 PM
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cpuminer work fine on sun4v
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July 24, 2011, 02:44:43 PM
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Quote from: Darka on July 24, 2011, 02:36:27 PM
cpuminer work fine on sun4v

But how effective is it?
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July 24, 2011, 03:57:22 PM
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About 40Kh per virtual core on Niagara. I think non CoolThreads CPU working faster.
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July 24, 2011, 04:20:23 PM
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40 kh? per core? ouch intel atom will outrun that i get ~2mh total on an old atom 330(the system is on 24/7 anyway i figured it was better than not getting the extra 2mh)
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July 24, 2011, 04:27:36 PM
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I think is problem of T1 design, it's only have one FPU for all cores. I think regular UltraSPARC is faster then your x86 CPU on equal MHz.
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