NVidea opensources CUDA platform

[nixxle]

http://developer.nvidia.com/content/cuda-platform-source-release

I was just wondering if this could mean anything for bitcoin mining ... ?

[cronopio]

Hi!

I hope this will improve the miners soft.

I guess with this info the miners for CUDA can do a better work.

Thanks Nvidia, and thanks for all devs working on this.

 

[LegitBit]

Well this does open up the compiler to be optimized for bitcoin-based applications, though I doubt much gain is to be had.

Similar to how some modify their C compilers I'm betting someone will do the same for us.


Though I do not think it is actually 'open' to everyone yet, just that they are planning on releasing it.


I'm more interested in AMD recently open-sourcing their OpenCL stuffs: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNjk

Of course I am in no way a coder so have no clue whatsoever if that is even relevant.

 

[Red Emerald]

NVIDIA's hardware is just not as good as ATI's when it comes to integer math.  Even with optimized miners, NVIDIA hash rates will (sadly) never be close to ATI.

[ThiagoCMC]

Maybe NVidia can run Litecoin miner faster than CPU?!
With some assembly code for it?!
Who will give it a try 

[Red Emerald]

Maybe NVidia can run Litecoin miner faster than CPU?!
With some assembly code for it?!
Who will give it a try 

scrypt is very GPU hostile.  I don't think nvidia's advantage in floating point math will help at all.