Re: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Release - First Scientific Computing Cryptocurrency
Before I knew about cryptocoins, I ran a lot of GPU's for BOINC distrubuted computing projects. There are/were(?) heaps of CPU based Prime number finding projects but none of them ever used GPU, so I am agreeing that branching is not suitable for the hardware and that is why no one ever bothered to make a program to mine on them. For this reason I suspect we might never see a GPU or ASIC prime number miner.
So you doubt that mtrlt can do the trick? -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=258540.0And another step into the direction GPU miner was taken here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=258982.0
There might be no GPU miners atm, but I doubt it will take long. Primecoin is suprisingly attractive. Even a pool is available although it had to be built almost from the scratch due to the completely new Proof-of-Work approach.
I suggest we'll have a GPU miner that outperfpormsthe current CPU miners for Primecoin (and that is more energy efficient) before we have FPGAs for Litecoin (that are more energy efficient than GPU miners)
Had not seen that thread. Good luck to 'em.