Re: [XPM] Working on a GPU miner for Primecoin, new thread :)

Fully agree with CoinHoarder.

The peoples with pay for VPS and mine PrimeCoin it's botnet's or serious miner's? My opinion - they serious miners.
IMO botnet's can't take control of PrimeCoint network until serious miner's with VPS mines PrimeCoin, because diff is to high and computers which controlled by botnet's in 80% cases it's a regular home users computers without much CPU power.

rdebourbon is working on a primecoin miner for the parallella (parallella.org). It is a $99 computer (essentially just cpu and cache on an ARM architecture) that can be infinitely parrallized. I think this may be the ideal primecoin miner by a $/XPM mined basis

Interesting news - I have a parallella board coming sometime, as a Kickstarter invester. But I'm puzzled, if primecoin mining couldn't be made to work on a GPU with massive parallization, why should it work on a parallella board? Do you have any more details, link etc?

It works actually, and it's coded in opencl, so this miner should serve as a base.

Specifically OpenCL v1.2. I'd be interested in the parallella version as well, even though I don't own the hardware (yet). It certainly looks like an interesting platform, especially since the boards can be installed in parallel at any time to increase the amount of processors at your disposal. I have a feeling we'll see quite a few new coins that target the platform - possibly bringing down the walls that ASICs have built up. Sure, it isn't bitcoin, but who cares - the cents to a dollar eventually add up Tongue