Ok guys,
Question with bitcoins as reward for good info.
I have a Sun Fire V880 with 8 UltraSPARC III Cpus @ 1200mhz at my disposal. This thing is a beast. Surely there is a way for me to get some decent hashing going on with it?
I've noticed there's not really much of a port, or anything that's been moved over doesn't get decent speeds.
Can someone give me the hot tip on how I can start really utilising this machine?
Use a good compiler and the C code?
The UltraSPARC III is just a standard RISC 64-bit CPU. The UltraSPARC III does have "MMX Like" instructions (VIS), but the ISA doesn't even have a bit rotate if I recall, which makes it useless for trying SIMD tricks to speed up SHA-anything.
You may get something with some hand assembly, but I don't think it'll hold a candle to the tuned SSE2 code that's in some of the miners out there on modern hardware.