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Re: Possible mining hardware based on RISC
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navimarin
on 04/08/2011, 22:17:47 UTC
I got a reply from Tilera. They got hosted starting at 30k $. They offered to lower it to 13k As introductery. I think this Thing is more about I/O since they have 2x 10 gbps Ports and so on. 1024 cores Gould have been interesting though.

Cheers
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Re: Possible mining hardware based on RISC
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navimarin
on 05/07/2011, 13:27:34 UTC
A geeky toy for sure. I already tried to obtain a dev board. Unfortunately they do not respond at all...
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Re: Google & Co. Mining ?!??
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navimarin
on 27/06/2011, 15:51:33 UTC
Besides, I have never seen a company react quickly on a such a topic as for example bitcoins.
At the moment it is 'only' a geeky project with lots of people putting their spare time into. This is (not yet) something of true market value to, lets say, google.
Imagin how many people this corporation would need to involve with decisions until the intern gets his idead approved to build Google Mining Riggs TM.

An putting 'secret' code in their programs for distribution is a far shot aswell. Just look at other software which is suspected of doing things the user does not know of. This would be a huge image damage. Just look at M$ XP activation and how long people have been trying to find out what data is being send.

Just my humble opinion...
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Re: Possible mining hardware based on RISC
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navimarin
on 27/06/2011, 15:36:07 UTC
Some marketing stuff:

"Combining multiple C-programmable processor tiles with the iMesh multicore technology enables
the TILE64 processor to achieve the performance of a fixed function ASIC or FPGA in a powerful
software-programmable solution."

  • 8 X 8 grid of identical, general purpose processor cores (tiles) this makes 64 cores Smiley I like that
  • 700MHz - 866MHz operating frequency
  • 15 - 22W @ 700MHz all cores running full application

I thought I read that it is based on RISC but can't find a reference at the moment.
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Possible mining hardware based on RISC
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navimarin
on 27/06/2011, 15:31:51 UTC
I have been following all kinds of hardware threads on this board for a while now.

All FPGA/ASIC threads where very interesting. I learned that cost per kW/h differs from 0.04$ to 0.25€ per users I have seen so far.
As I am more on the upper end of that scale, power efficient solutions are most welcome.

I would like to know what you think about this processor
http://tilera.com/products/processors/TILE64
or ready as card
http://tilera.com/products/platforms/TILEncore_cards

It is said to consume about 20W. I fear that, as no price tags are provided and the I/O ports seem to target premium application scenarios, it will be priced too high.

Still, is anybody familiar with this specifice processor or give a performance comparison?
It seems there are no dev boards available (at least not publicly).

At motherboard with a few of these cards would be fun, since they are programmable with standard C++.
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Re: Newbie restrictions
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navimarin
on 27/06/2011, 15:12:30 UTC
No kidding... I was clicking through a forum that I read from page 1-33, went to reply and realized no button... Thinking It was a browser Issue, I clicked through a few others... No dice until i hit the front page again.

At least now I don't think the probability is as high that I am crazy.

Hello everyone.

Same for me, even tried IE just to be sure.
The news banner seems to be the tiniest text section on the whole page.
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Re: Whitelist Requests (Want out of here?)
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navimarin
on 27/06/2011, 15:08:06 UTC
This whole currency is about openness and against censorship. Yet we are stuck here in a newbie section nobedy really cares about.
And that only because we are not among the 'early adopters' (at least from a information POV).

What does this regulation generate except work (moderators) and frustration.

There is always a technical/social solution to spamming I guess...
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Re: Whitelist Requests (Want out of here?)
by
navimarin
on 27/06/2011, 14:09:25 UTC
Hi, I would like to discuss some hardware I found on the Mining/Hardware thread.

I have been following developments in mining with GPU FPGA/ASIC and would like to get opinions on another multicore platform.

Thx