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August 09, 2011, 04:58:32 PM
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I'm considering set up a HPC mining rig start-up project. The rig will use floating point co-processor for FPGAs which could create compute blocks with 4096 processors (8 TFLOPs) in each unit.

But the question is: Could multi-core floating point co-processor helped (or not) for FPGA Bitcoin mining?

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August 10, 2011, 08:11:08 AM
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sh256 is does not use floating point.

If you don't understand this, you are way over your head.
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