DIY FPGA Mining rig for any algorithm with fast ROI

[senseless]

The stats for Smartcash (Keccak) on smartcash.cc looks interesting, for minimal change in number of workers, the hashrate varies between 2TH and 5TH. This is across the US and EU pools.

https://us-mine.smartcash.cc/stats

Anyone knows if this is just a display issue?
I was thinking about the FPGA pre-tester but that is a huge number...

It's the baikal x10

[hashm1n3r]

The stats for Smartcash (Keccak) on smartcash.cc looks interesting, for minimal change in number of workers, the hashrate varies between 2TH and 5TH. This is across the US and EU pools.

https://us-mine.smartcash.cc/stats

Anyone knows if this is just a display issue?
I was thinking about the FPGA pre-tester but that is a huge number...

It's the baikal x10

Thanks senseless, that would make sense.

I can't find keccak in the supported list for the x10, I assume that is an unofficial mod to enable keccak on x10?

[senseless]

The stats for Smartcash (Keccak) on smartcash.cc looks interesting, for minimal change in number of workers, the hashrate varies between 2TH and 5TH. This is across the US and EU pools.

https://us-mine.smartcash.cc/stats

Anyone knows if this is just a display issue?
I was thinking about the FPGA pre-tester but that is a huge number...

It's the baikal x10

Thanks senseless, that would make sense.

I can't find keccak in the supported list for the x10, I assume that is an unofficial mod to enable keccak on x10?

It's baikal mining on their own units. They're also mining nist5.

[nsummy]

Quick question, is it the chip or the actual card that is the determining factor for compatibility?  Like should technically any card that has the VU9P on it work for this?  Or does the card design also come into play?

The reason I ask is it looks like other places may also make these:  https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/device-family/nav-virtex-ultrascale-plus.html

[s1gs3gv]

Got 12 days to get your avnet order in before they increase the price. Then the group buy i'm trying to put together will be the cheapest option.

Are you talking about this $4,835.53 deal here https://www.avnet.com/shop/apac/products/xilinx/dk-u1-vcu1525-a-g-3074457345634517269/  ?

[yrk1957]

The stats for Smartcash (Keccak) on smartcash.cc looks interesting, for minimal change in number of workers, the hashrate varies between 2TH and 5TH. This is across the US and EU pools.

https://us-mine.smartcash.cc/stats

Anyone knows if this is just a display issue?
I was thinking about the FPGA pre-tester but that is a huge number...

It's the baikal x10

Thanks senseless, that would make sense.

I can't find keccak in the supported list for the x10, I assume that is an unofficial mod to enable keccak on x10?

It's baikal mining on their own units. They're also mining nist5.

I suppose you have looked at the X10 to know this is possible?

[2112]

Or does the card design also come into play?

Bitstream is both chip- and board-dependent.

Chip-dependent quite obviously because FPGA is a complex two-dimensional (or even 3D) device, not an array of bytes, or 72-bit words, etc. according to some JEDEC standard.

Board-dependent for the same reason: which signals go to which pin of the chip isn't standardized either. Some dependencies could be resolved, but it isn't clear that the boards are compatible enough. It was discussed at the beginning of this thread.

Additionally some boards may not have enough power to continuously supply the required current for full performance. You would then be forced to severely under-clock them to avoid tripping the on-board over-current protection.

[gotminer]

I know those talks here are being about FPGA having them at home running and configured.

But does somebody have already looked into the possibilities of Amazon EC2-F1 instances? They are also providing FPGA in their datacenters (1 instance consists of 8 pieces of  16 nm Xilinx UltraScale Plus FPGA's).

As you can build images and re-deploy on any other FPGA i was wondering that might be in interest somehow? I just wanted to bring that up as another opporunity which might be in interest.
I would definitely try that out - if i understand this might be possible to run "off-shore" rather than home but still having dedicated hardware. Therefore i would be in a need of understanding if all the work being done here is also able being used and replicated in the Amazon Cloud/Datacenter. (especially the bitstreams/firmware)

Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers,

Start with page one.

[s1gs3gv]

Does SDAccel provide an effective software development environment / workflow for developing for the VCU1525

[2112]

Does SDAccel provide an effective software development environment / workflow for developing for the VCU1525

Not really. It is a Visual Basic for FPGAs. Only good enough for quick&dirty or fast prototyping.

[Etherion]

Will CN7, Equihash and Neoscrypt fit on one VU9P? Or will one need to have two or 3 to get those algorithm to work?

I want to order two dev kits but need some idea if I can just one or should I now buy 3.

I need to make a call on how many I need to order. So any estimate would be great

[whitefire990]

Will CN7, Equihash and Neoscrypt fit on one VU9P? Or will one need to have two or 3 to get those algorithm to work?

I want to order two dev kits but need some idea if I can just one or should I now buy 3.

I need to make a call on how many I need to order. So any estimate would be great

CN7, Neoscrypt, Lyra2z, Lyra2v2, all fit in one VU9P.  Equihash isn't worth it competing against Antminer Z9, unless we implement one of the Equihash forks.

[hashm1n3r]

Could you send a fresh discord invitation? The last one is expired.

+1

[cheebeez]

Does SDAccel provide an effective software development environment / workflow for developing for the VCU1525

With SDAccel you can use OpenCL for FPGA.

[chrysophylax]

There's a fairly new coin I'd like to mine on AWS but I'm not a programmer. I've been reading up on vhdl but I really don't know where start. Would anyone be willing to assist me?

If you don’t want to publically state the coin, pm me. If you’re not a programmer, or a hardware engineer, or an FPGA developer (very different from a programmer), you likely have a very steep slope to getting an efficient miner running a new algorithm.

We too would be happy to assist in any way we can to that end ...

Being miners first, among other professions in our company, we could work together with a number of projects, especially if the need for mining is involved.

#crysx

[hacko86]

Could you send a fresh discord invitation? The last one is expired.

+1

https://discord.gg/DNBH9bw

[senseless]

Got 12 days to get your avnet order in before they increase the price. Then the group buy i'm trying to put together will be the cheapest option.

Are you talking about this $4,835.53 deal here https://www.avnet.com/shop/apac/products/xilinx/dk-u1-vcu1525-a-g-3074457345634517269/  ?

Only USA was running the deal, avnet EU and AP always had a higher price. If you buy through avnet USA it will be $3995 per board. The promo ends in june. After that, the USA will increase their price as well. At that point my sig will be the cheapest buy option. If we can get up to a 10,000 unit order everyone would benefit from the reduction in pricing.

[Etherion]

Will CN7, Equihash and Neoscrypt fit on one VU9P? Or will one need to have two or 3 to get those algorithm to work?

I want to order two dev kits but need some idea if I can just one or should I now buy 3.

I need to make a call on how many I need to order. So any estimate would be great

CN7, Neoscrypt, Lyra2z, Lyra2v2, all fit in one VU9P.  Equihash isn't worth it competing against Antminer Z9, unless we implement one of the Equihash forks.

Thanks a million. I hope Zcash forks so that equihash becomes a option.

[GPUHoarder]

Will CN7, Equihash and Neoscrypt fit on one VU9P? Or will one need to have two or 3 to get those algorithm to work?

I want to order two dev kits but need some idea if I can just one or should I now buy 3.

I need to make a call on how many I need to order. So any estimate would be great

CN7, Neoscrypt, Lyra2z, Lyra2v2, all fit in one VU9P.  Equihash isn't worth it competing against Antminer Z9, unless we implement one of the Equihash forks.

Thanks a million. I hope Zcash forks so that equihash becomes a option.

The Zcash parameter change would not give FPGAs much advantage, if any. This board in particular lacks the bandwidth

[melpheos]

Got 12 days to get your avnet order in before they increase the price. Then the group buy i'm trying to put together will be the cheapest option.

Are you talking about this $4,835.53 deal here https://www.avnet.com/shop/apac/products/xilinx/dk-u1-vcu1525-a-g-3074457345634517269/  ?

Only USA was running the deal, avnet EU and AP always had a higher price. If you buy through avnet USA it will be $3995 per board. The promo ends in june. After that, the USA will increase their price as well. At that point my sig will be the cheapest buy option. If we can get up to a 10,000 unit order everyone would benefit from the reduction in pricing.

I'm in Europe so unfortunately i cannot participate (taxes+shipping will just put the price at the same level as from avnet europe directely)