Litecoin mining on the "Now shipping" Adapteva's $100 Parallella Platform

[Transisto]

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319005&itc=eetimes_sitedefault&cid=NL_EET_Daily_20130724&elq=5dd0c3d76fa54432bf2d859518b968da&elqCampaignId=437

According to Adapteva "manager"

The bitcoin algorithm doesn't map well onto the Epiphany archtiecture and there are already a lot of a few really fast bitcoin mining ASICs out there. However, Parallella should do well on the next coin mining craze called "litecoin". @solardiz at Openwall (the good guys behind John the Ripper password cracker) are looking into it.

Follow the development here : http://forums.parallella.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=276#p1634

[erschiessen]

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319005&itc=eetimes_sitedefault&cid=NL_EET_Daily_20130724&elq=5dd0c3d76fa54432bf2d859518b968da&elqCampaignId=437

According to Adapteva "manager"

The bitcoin algorithm doesn't map well onto the Epiphany archtiecture and there are already a lot of a few really fast bitcoin mining ASICs out there. However, Parallella should do well on the next coin mining craze called "litecoin". @solardiz at Openwall (the good guys behind John the Ripper password cracker) are looking into it.

Follow the development here : http://forums.parallella.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=276#p1634

thank you for posting this!

[Axion_Zen]

not worth it if you read the posts..64 core too slow they would need to develop 1024 core to make it better than gpu

[finlof]

not worth it if you read the posts..64 core too slow they would need to develop 1024 core to make it better than gpu

depends on the power usage, price, and what it can actually hash whether it's better than a GPU or not.  ie - if you can get 5kh/s per core on a 64 core then that's 320kh/s at 5w usage.  that could possibly be worth $200.  time will tell.

[xgtele]

Interesting board http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-16
It can be pre-ordered today (October delivery)

Adapteva has a dual-core ARM A9 CPU and FPGA integrated in one Xilinx Zynq®-7000 series microchip

[TheSwede75]

I am thinking it might be even more interesting for Primecoin Mining..

[iikun]

interesting, but more of an evolution than a revolution like asics were.

[Zalfrin]

Not too bad of a price when the FPGA is $50+/each in bulk, but I doubt the $100 version of this board will be of much use to miners. It comes with the XC7Z010 device w/ 28k logic cells, versus the 150k logic cells in the big spartan 6's. I guess if you get the ARM core to do enough work and are selective about what you offload to hardware, it could be useful. I'd be more interested in the XC7Z020 variant w/ 85k logic cells. Of course those devices are more like $100+/each in bulk.

Here's another board that uses these chips: http://www.zedboard.org/content/board-functions

EDIT: Heh, I didn't read very closely. I guess the real interesting part of the dev boards in the OP is this: http://www.adapteva.com/products/silicon-devices/

Sounds fun.

[erk]

A bit early I think for that one.

[Gordon Bleu]

I ordered one
and got a Tweet from

Solar Designer
@solardiz
I guess you mean Litecoin and not scrypt per se. Ideally, ~5 kh/s on 16-core Epiphany, ~20 on 64-core.

So it seems useless for Litecoin , you would still need 500 Watts for 500kh/s,
but there's still a little hope on Google`s Summer Camp
http://www.openwall.com/lists/announce/2013/04/28/1

[papamoi]

watching

[spartan82]

Watching

[altsay]

Sounds promising.

[crazyates]

I heard about this months ago, and when I heard they were shipping, my first thought was also LTC. I'd be curious what it can do. They're only shipping the 16 core version now, but soon have the 64 core version soon.

[teknohog]

Not too bad of a price when the FPGA is $50+/each in bulk, but I doubt the $100 version of this board will be of much use to miners. It comes with the XC7Z010 device w/ 28k logic cells, versus the 150k logic cells in the big spartan 6's. I guess if you get the ARM core to do enough work and are selective about what you offload to hardware, it could be useful. I'd be more interested in the XC7Z020 variant w/ 85k logic cells. Of course those devices are more like $100+/each in bulk.

Here's another board that uses these chips: http://www.zedboard.org/content/board-functions

EDIT: Heh, I didn't read very closely. I guess the real interesting part of the dev boards in the OP is this: http://www.adapteva.com/products/silicon-devices/

Sounds fun.

I recently ordered one with the XC7Z020, with no particular application in mind -- for example, it's a relatively cheap devkit for the FPGA only, considering alternatives like the Zedboard. There have been lots of $99 boards with just an ARM-based computer, basically beefed-up Raspis; this one is similar but with an FPGA and the Epiphany coprocessor.

I'm guessing the reason it has an FPGA in the first place is a cost-effective way to develop a suitable interconnect for the coprocessor, but in some ways I find the FPGA more interesting in itself

As for mining on the FPGA, I hope nobody is seriously expecting any profit with these...

[tarui]

watching too

[volosator]

What is expected performance?

[papamoi]

so does anyone have anything mining on this?

if yes how?and what to expect?

thanks

[forum2005]

watching... and waiting my parallella 

[lordzav]

Helllo. News ?

http://www.adapteva.com/epiphany-multicore-intellectual-property/ ... 256 Cores to 4k Cores ? :O When ?