GekkoScience has a new pod miner, just in time for Christmas

[Powell]

For me (and not only for me) it is a vital point of having the freedom of choice to solo mine on a bitcoind or a pool.
If all trustfull pools/solopools went away, I still got the opertunity to solo mine directly to core.

End of story

So to me it seems like you are the equivalent to a Dooms Day Prepper for the Bitcoin world?  I don't mean that to come off as an attack, but this will be my 9th year on this forum and there are still trustworthy pools/solo pools you can mine on.  What I do notice though is you follow any project Kano is involved with because YOU want something changed.  I am sure like you said there are others but it's YOU that follows into Sidehack's product releases talking about how it's not truly something.  Which as of right now and for the forseeable future it is as I do not see pools disappearing for awhile, and by the time they do this hardware will be the equiv to running an Antminer U1 on a modern day pool.

Another analogy when it comes to the end of the pools, would be again comparing a person watching for the end of the world and prepping for it.  It would be the same as calling every gun manufacturer and complaining that even though they only make the firearm that nobody will be able to make bullets for it if the world were to come to an end.  You are literally worried about something that isn't a problem and have been all over any Gekkoscience release because Kano is involved.  

So how about you set up your own stratum server and run instead of worrying about mining directly to Bitcoin core?  OR, how about you pay to have your own developer write a new miner specifically for people like you and the others you mention and then you don't have to follow people like Kano and Sidehack constantly trying to tell people that it's not a solo miner because in the future you can't just mine directly to core?  

[cygan]

if you want to run the new r909 miner together with other compac f sticks, what should the cmd line look like to start all the miners via cgminer?

[kano]

I've posted the details now back in the 2nd post
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5423227.msg61350496#msg61350496

[Dlikrot]

When is it back in stock?

[sidehack]

It's a brand-new product and we busted our butts to get the assembly line up to speed in time for the first batches to be out for Christmas, which is still 19 days off. Reseller stock requests are being filled right now, so they'll be "in stock" with resellers in one to two weeks.

[Dlikrot]

Thank you! Very excited about this miner.

[cygan]

so i will run my 2 gekko usb hubs (with 3 compac f sticks each) together with the 2 new r909 pod miners using a rpi4. if everything runs well and is configured well i would get ~3.6th/s together

[BiticaMan]

It's a brand-new product and we busted our butts to get the assembly line up to speed in time for the first batches to be out for Christmas, which is still 19 days off. Reseller stock requests are being filled right now, so they'll be "in stock" with resellers in one to two weeks.

sidehack how many s17 chips does this miner pod have?

From what I understand I could use 3 or 4 on a PI connected directly to the USB port?
Could you please confirm.

Thanks.

[sidehack]

I've only tested 1 at a time on my Pi, but we're running five per USB bus (10 per machine) on the old Dell 755 testers. If a current model Pi has comparable horsepower to half an office PC from like 2010 you'd be fine. Given a Pi will run something like 12-14 Compac F, 3-4 R909 shouldn't be difficult.

By the way, 1.5TH is the baseline spec. The last batch off testers were running 1.6-1.7TH and still had headroom. Kano and I have both tested units at 2TH and up. Of course the top-end of your units will be dependent on the hardware behaving nicely but I bet you could get 3.6TH just from the R909s.

[NebulaMiner]

Hi, I am working on a BM13xx High Level Analyzer for Saleae Logic 2. You can find it on Saleae Logic 2 market place as an extension (and also in GH : https://github.com/GPTechinno/bm13xx-hla). Maybe you can have a use of it

Currently, basic communicatin (FIL/VIL mode, R/W register, manage chip address, job/nonce) is well handled. I am digging into the register functions and fields now.

I am sure your level of knowledge on the BM13xx serial protocol is higher han mine, but such a practical tool can be handy for your dev also.

Let me know what you think about it.

[yxt]

It's a brand-new product and we busted our butts to get the assembly line up to speed in time for the first batches to be out for Christmas, which is still 19 days off. Reseller stock requests are being filled right now, so they'll be "in stock" with resellers in one to two weeks.

can it purchased directly (where?) or only via reseller?

[sidehack]

Resellers only, same as we've done for the last several years. Mine is a small shop so we focus on R&D and manufacture and let resellers handle advertising, distribution and customer support.

[BiticaMan]

I've only tested 1 at a time on my Pi, but we're running five per USB bus (10 per machine) on the old Dell 755 testers. If a current model Pi has comparable horsepower to half an office PC from like 2010 you'd be fine. Given a Pi will run something like 12-14 Compac F, 3-4 R909 shouldn't be difficult.

By the way, 1.5TH is the baseline spec. The last batch off testers were running 1.6-1.7TH and still had headroom. Kano and I have both tested units at 2TH and up. Of course the top-end of your units will be dependent on the hardware behaving nicely but I bet you could get 3.6TH just from the R909s.

sidehack I have 350gh/s in my each compacF, if the R909 reaches 3Th/s that would give between 8 to 9 compacF, is this comparison correct?

I would like to know how many compacF or S17 processors have 1 R909 for me to calculate here and see what it pays for me to assemble my next miner, can you help me with this information?

[os2sam]

I would like to know how many compacF or S17 processors have 1 R909

My  guess would be 6

[kano]

Update:

as now mentioned in the 2nd post, the latest code has problems with the older miners.

Specifically the R606 wont scale up performance properly.
It performs badly and keeps dropping the frequency.

The CompacF, and R909 of course, work well with all the new features.

Switching back to the previous version will fix this for the old miners, for now, until I do regression testing on my old miners later.
The git commands to switch to the previous 4.12.0 version is:

Code:

cd
cd cgminer
git checkout f357f61c1d
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fcommon" ./autogen.sh --enable-gekko --enable-icarus
make

The second last line is to make sure it say it's v4.12.0

[NotFuzzyWarm]

It should be pointed out that at least when using Raspian on a Pi3, it is a good idea to run multiple instances of cgminer when your sticks/pods are along side older ones that have vastly lower hash rate. In my case a Compac-F in one instance and 1 Newpac + 1 2Pac in a 2nd instance.

If need be just run the latest/greatest instance for F's & R909 and older one for others until Kano gets it worked out

[419mining]

419Mining opened the preorder sales, limited to 20 units. https://www.419mining.com/shop/miners/gekkoscience-r909/

[Dlikrot]

Ordered! No PlayStation 5 for me this christmas. Lottery mining for my family, here we go!

[Powell]

Got mine ordered as well!

[Dlikrot]

Should a Raspberry Pi 3 suffice for running it? Or even a 2?