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Acorn was to be released in August. Whenever there were questions about SQRL Miner (to test it even without Acorn) the answer was that it would be released with Acorns. It is already December 5. Hardware without software is useless. By the way, the numbers illustrating the advantage of using Acorn, were released in June, I believe.
So if they made them up and believed they could write software to achieve those numbers it has now created an interesting problem for them.
Have to say gear looks nice.
Seems to be they should be able to show us those estimates were real right now and they don't.
Frankly that = "bad news"
Here is what GPUHoarder said yesterday:
"GPUHoarderToday at 6:57 PM
So heres how Acorns went - we built the first Hand Built prototype boards, of which 3 actually functioned (1 was later broken before it got much life) early in the summer. A combination of the two remaining prototypes and AC701 boards were used to prove out functionality - including ethash, CN, Lyra2re2 and X16r algo support bitstream.
GPUHoarderToday at 6:59 PM
We proved out and metered exactly how much state bandwidth we can get on/off acorn in full duplex, and the performance and power of all the bitstreams, as well as area on chip.
That was used to generate test harnesses for miners,
For x16r, we cant actually test every algo combination - so we timed exact performance on all the GPU algorithm pairs vs acorn - math is applied to get what the average will be, and specific blocks of course tested
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It was in a sense a response to questions about how they got the numbers (simulation only?) in June but they cannot come up with working SQRL Miner now.