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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: biggest profit for miner devs not miners
by
nerdralph
on 17/04/2017, 12:28:55 UTC

a) I like Nerdralph's idea of mining software focused on energy efficiency. I'm always on the lookout for such solutions.

b) I would like to see an open market on GPU bio's instead of this hush/hush PM stuff. I would have no problem paying 1% for a top energy GPU efficient bios that was validated by mining software. Why can't the bios and mining software be an integrated system.

c) Finally, with summer coming, I would like to see some sort of option in the mining software based on time-of-day use for individual GPUs. There would be many good things about this:

i) Instead of trying to do this through the O/S, doing it through the mining software makes this feature platform independent.
ii) Energy hog GPU's could be shutdown during the hours of day when the electricity rates are high.
iii) It's probably more efficient to completely shut down/idle individual cards to limit heating/consumption than for all the GPU's to throttle back.

Regarding b), I've released my strapmod utility and and made an online version available.  The next step as you've suggested is integrating the timing mods into the miner (I've been experimenting with this idea for about a week now).

Regarding c), I think it's more the domain of mining management software.