Mining pool software design

[howardb]

Hi, i'm currently involved in a project that is amongst other things, considering the possibility of creating a next generation truly horizontally scalable mining pool system (across all coins).

Could I ask you guys to point me at any current formal/technical documentation on mining and mining pool protocols, along with any other good knowledge sources. Unfortunately, Google is not my friend on this one, as the subject matter is too close to many related but irrelevant subjects.

[bitpop]

Slush pioneered much of pool mining

[bluemist]

Documentation of Slush's Stratum mining protocol can be found here:

http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining

Hopefully that will get you started