Hello,
Worthless newbie here. I am a worthless newbie with a new Intel Xeon Phi (knights corner) PCIe coprocessor. It has 6GB of RAM and 228 hyperthreaded x86 cores.
Has anyone done any work porting a Linux CPU mining app to Phi? If not, can someone suggest the preferred Linux CPU mining app so I can try porting it?
Thanks!
Awesome piece of equipment. Xeon Phi is awfully new, so you might be one of the first to have one and be directing it at bitcoin mining. I'd really suggest moving this to the mining section when you get out of purgatory, a lot of the mining software devs hang out there regularly and someone might be interested in guiding you as you build their software for this machine, but some of the existing OpenCL miners aimed at GPUs might already work with the potential to work better after some optimization. I'm pretty interested to see what these can push.
And if it just isn't that efficient for bitcoin mining, you'll probably become king of the litecoin miners.