Could IBM POWER8 processors be used for efficient Scrypt mining?

[Radacoin]

POWER8 is designed to be a massively multithreaded chip, capable of handling 96 hardware threads simultaneously. The chip make use of very large amounts of on and off chip eDRAM caches (96 MB eDRAM L3 cache, 8 MB per core), and on chip memory controllers enables very high bandwidth to memory and system I/O. The POWER8 core has 64 kB L1 data and 32 kB L1 instruction caches and 512 kB SRAM L2 cache on a 64 byte wide bus.

[M414K0]

Hello,

Here a rapid tests done on Power 8 Cloud (http://runabove.com, only 1$ per hour, so go test it ! ) on 176 threads :

CPUMiner, not optimised for P8

BTC/SHA256 :

below 20 threads,

88 threads => 62 MHashs/s
176 threads => 46 MHash/s



LTC/Scrypt : 

below 20 threads, 2 Khash/s per thread

88 threads   =>  105 Khash/s
176 threads =>  82.72 Khash/s


Not good...  But I think that with a specificaly designed Miner, it could be awsome, but it will not be better than ASIC...

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Here all the command to do to run CPUMiner on Power8 from RA


[admin@test-p8 cpuminer-2.4]$ history
     1  sudo yum install wget git bzip2 tar make diff gcc make automake libcurl-devel.ppc libcurl-devel.ppc64 libcurl.ppc libcurl.ppc64
     2  wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/files/pooler-cpuminer-2.4.tar.gz
     3  tar xzf pooler-cpuminer-*.tar.gz
     4  cd cpuminer-2.4/
     5  ./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
     6  make
     7  ./minerd --url=stratum+tcp://ltc.ghash.io:3333 --userpass=xxxx --threads=88 --algo scrypt
     8  ./minerd --url=stratum+tcp://ltc.ghash.io:3333 --userpass=xxxx --threads=176 --algo scrypt
     9  ./minerd --url=stratum+tcp://uk1.ghash.io:3333 --userpass=xxxx --threads=88 --algo sha256d
   10  ./minerd --url=stratum+tcp://uk1.ghash.io:3333 --userpass=xxxx --threads=176 --algo sha256d
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Do you want me to do some other test ?


Have a nice day,
Maiko