Re: [ANN] CoinShield -SK-1024 | 11 New Features |CPU Launched| GPU Launch Date Set
Impressive. Nice photo. Motivates me to go and try to make my own gpu miner though I'm a beginner in this territory.My CPU miner is not that customized, just a little cosmetics to help me find the best parameters for every computer I'm running on. I'm not experienced enough (yet) to make such optimizations like you and Supercomputing in the algorithm. Also i'm renting just 1 AWS instance with some credit bought on eBay with 1/4 price, the risk I'm willing to take, even for the pure joy.
Let me state it like this: A month ago I had no clue about prime numbers and related algorithms. We took Supercomputing's miner and started to understand the basics (how does the sieve work, how is it parameterized). We eventually succeeded putting the sieve on the GPU and making it fast.
As a side project we also started looking into bignum maths for integers and modular arithmetics. We implemented some fundamental 1024 bit GPU maths functions. Our first attempt at doing modular exponentiation worked, but it was so much slower than the CPU. Sometimes algorithms matter more than code efficiency or hardware capabilities. Then we started looking into Montgomery multiplication/exponentiation and succeeded making it work reasonably well.
Now we are at a point where we think we could pull off a Riecoin GPU miner. It helps to have a partner in crime when doing fun projects like this because you keep motivating each other with new concepts and ideas to try out. Also the 4 eyes principle helps in debugging a lot.
Yea, a partner, this is exactly what I'm missing. Unfortunately non of my friends or colleagues are interested in crypto-currencies so I'm always loosing traction, but time to time I'm getting motivated from peoples like you. Thank you and keep up the good work.