Quote from: pikachuy on May 01, 2018, 11:28:03 AM

Quote from: whitefire990 on May 01, 2018, 03:03:54 AM

Quote from: rdluffy on May 01, 2018, 02:15:44 AM

It's not for everyone, the price is expensive but I think this is the next step in mining

If we buy a Xilinx VCU1525 we have to buy anything more? Or it`s like a gpu you connect on PCI-E, install drivers and use your program you will launch?

Thanks

Yes, very simple, you just need to make sure you have enough USB ports on the motherboard, otherwise you can use a PCIe-USB adapter card. Depends on how many FPGA cards you want to run.

@whitefire990

Question, for your software / hardware experience, is there a limit on the amount of devices? I know for windows, there's like a GPU limit, but since it's interacting through USB... wonder if it's possible to just dedicated 1 rig for the O/S and stack on all the FPGA through multiple PCIe-USB adapter card to consolidate... for example, instead of (2) 8 FPGA rig into a (1) 16 FPGA rig, or even (1) 20 FPGA rig. Wonder what's the limit, if the CPU will be bottleneck first or if the PCIE lanes all used up.

Another thing, do you have a team behind you (does project go on if something bad happens to yourself)? It sounds like you are solely doing everything on your own. Reason I'm asking is because as you mentioned, the initial investment is huge. Worst case scenario, lets say something happened to you and you are no longer able to continue, does the project stop? People would be stuck with very expensive hardware...

If I not remember bad you can use arront 40-50 USB devices per USB port on the computer.

The return of the FPGA wow, long time w/o seeing this for mining purposes.