ALLMINE INC - FPGA Cryptominer - page 48.

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Quote from: s1gs3gv on May 24, 2018, 07:36:56 PM

Aren't Ultrascale+ FPGAs export restricted because of their dual use potential ?

Yes, but it's not a problem. We will probably start off with just USA and Canada though.

Quote from: realaccountakira on May 24, 2018, 07:54:14 PM

With concerns regarding VAT and all the importation fees, wouldn't it be simpler to just declare the item value of a GPU (less)? I believe item values within a certain range would not cause as much problems with customs both in terms of paperwork and fees.

Of course we should always operate within legal means but I was of the impression that declaring value is for insurance purpose. With regards to tax and vat, aren't you already paying for that when you actually buy it? It's like getting taxed twice by both the exporting and importing country.

If i am misinformed please feel free to correct me.

That's fraud

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With concerns regarding VAT and all the importation fees, wouldn't it be simpler to just declare the item value of a GPU (less)? I believe item values within a certain range would not cause as much problems with customs both in terms of paperwork and fees.

Of course we should always operate within legal means but I was of the impression that declaring value is for insurance purpose. With regards to tax and vat, aren't you already paying for that when you actually buy it? It's like getting taxed twice by both the exporting and importing country.

If i am misinformed please feel free to correct me.

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ex uno plures

Aren't Ultrascale+ FPGAs export restricted because of their dual use potential ?

spidercatdog

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I would like to order qty of 8 VCU boards at price below Avnet EU list.
Also if you ahave a bitstream for sale please let me know.

mantium

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Present for 20 pieces. please contact me.

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New in UltraScale+ families is a larger capacity, flexible memory block called UltraRAM,
but the HBM memory can also be fast (20xDDR4).

I think using both, the UltraRAM and the right HBM (maybe for different algo´s) are the best.

Using the UltraRAM as a HBM cache is not a good idea, if you want to mine monero Cheesy

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Quote from: rem26 on May 24, 2018, 09:50:40 AM

Quote from: wzyefd on May 24, 2018, 09:17:56 AM

Which mining software the FPGA using? ccminer?

Nobody even has anything working yet that is public. You guys that are buying expensive boards and don't know how to design logic are taking a hell of a gamble. These are not plug and play like a GPU.

Let people buy these boards. When they realize they don't come with ccminer,claymore, and quake champions pack I'll take em.

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Quote from: wzyefd on May 24, 2018, 09:17:56 AM

Which mining software the FPGA using? ccminer?

Nobody even has anything working yet that is public. You guys that are buying expensive boards and don't know how to design logic are taking a hell of a gamble. These are not plug and play like a GPU.

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Quote from: senseless on May 23, 2018, 08:14:09 AM

Quote from: Amph on May 23, 2018, 02:19:18 AM

so what are the algo provided for now? all the available minus new one right? also this group buy or whatver is intended for european only or usa only? because there is customs to pay for us

I'm working on EU manuf to deal with the VAT issues. It's not going to be a problem for me to ship worldwide. I shipped a couple of FPGA boards recently internationally. The requirements weren't what I was expecting. But, for EU customers, I'd like to ship from the EU.

No algos are available yet. I believe whitefire will release his first one on 5/30. You'll have to check his thread.

Whoa, if you could ship from EU that would be awesome.
In that case, I would definitely purchase two.
Got a quote from digikey @ 3772€/unit (excluded VAT and shipping)

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Which mining software the FPGA using? ccminer?

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I want to buy 18 VCU1525. I am in US.

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Quote from: senseless on May 23, 2018, 12:11:21 PM

Quote from: pekacoin on May 23, 2018, 08:28:40 AM

Quote from: senseless on May 22, 2018, 10:57:49 AM

....+$2000 for a waterblock. ...

One waterblock for $ 2000 for one VCU1525 or suitable for rig up to 8 pcs? Photo?

I'm saying that he's paying $2000 more getting the bittware board just to get a waterblock.
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I’m not sure why we are bothering with water blocks and extreme cooling. We can get two smaller chips with fast interconnect easily cooled for the same or less price...

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Quote from: pekacoin on May 23, 2018, 08:28:40 AM

Quote from: senseless on May 22, 2018, 10:57:49 AM

....+$2000 for a waterblock. ...

One waterblock for $ 2000 for one VCU1525 or suitable for rig up to 8 pcs? Photo?

I'm saying that he's paying $2000 more getting the bittware board just to get a waterblock.

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Quote from: brutoid on May 23, 2018, 08:41:50 AM

Quote from: senseless on May 23, 2018, 08:14:09 AM

I'm working on EU manuf to deal with the VAT issues. It's not going to be a problem for me to ship worldwide. I shipped a couple of FPGA boards recently internationally. The requirements weren't what I was expecting. But, for EU customers, I'd like to ship from the EU.

No algos are available yet. I believe whitefire will release his first one on 5/30. You'll have to check his thread.

Do you have a rough idea of what the total cost of one unit would be once you have your EU channel ready?

Not currently. I don't have enough knowledge of EU vat to say for sure.

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Quote from: senseless on May 23, 2018, 08:14:09 AM

I'm working on EU manuf to deal with the VAT issues. It's not going to be a problem for me to ship worldwide. I shipped a couple of FPGA boards recently internationally. The requirements weren't what I was expecting. But, for EU customers, I'd like to ship from the EU.

No algos are available yet. I believe whitefire will release his first one on 5/30. You'll have to check his thread.

Do you have a rough idea of what the total cost of one unit would be once you have your EU channel ready?

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Quote from: senseless on May 22, 2018, 10:57:49 AM

....+$2000 for a waterblock. ...

One waterblock for $ 2000 for one VCU1525 or suitable for rig up to 8 pcs? Photo?

senseless

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Quote from: Amph on May 23, 2018, 02:19:18 AM

so what are the algo provided for now? all the available minus new one right? also this group buy or whatver is intended for european only or usa only? because there is customs to pay for us

I'm working on EU manuf to deal with the VAT issues. It's not going to be a problem for me to ship worldwide. I shipped a couple of FPGA boards recently internationally. The requirements weren't what I was expecting. But, for EU customers, I'd like to ship from the EU.

No algos are available yet. I believe whitefire will release his first one on 5/30. You'll have to check his thread.

Amph

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so what are the algo provided for now? all the available minus new one right? also this group buy or whatver is intended for european only or usa only? because there is customs to pay for us

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I`m ready for 2 psc in US.

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Quote from: senseless on May 09, 2018, 03:01:16 PM

The VCU1525 schematics and bom are available for anyone to produce. I have already sat down with Xilinx (in Shenzhen) and negotiated chip pricing. If there is enough interest, I could facilitate a chip purchase, put the chips on boards and deliver them at a regular price of $4,000-$4,500. To hit a $4,000-$4,500 and stay at $4,000-$4,500 there would need to be at least 1,000 boards sold. If order volume went up to or over 10,000 units pricing could be dropped to $3,000-$3,500 per unit.

You would be able to use the device with the firmwares produced by whitefire990

Any interest?

Payment methods would be Crypto (obviously) and Credit Card / Paypal (identity verification would be required and shipping to your registered / verified address)

UPDATES:

The community seems to be uneasy that there is only one developer announcing they will be providing firmware for the VCU1525. We are considering building a 'shell' framework (like the AWS shell) that would allow any FPGA developer to compile encrypted code for our boards. We would provide a development environment (vivado) to the dev, provide the mining software, communication interface and facilitate fee collection on the devs behalf. If there are any FPGA developers who would be interested in building firmwares to be released to the community please contact me.

Will you be shipping to Canada? I live on the border and would rather have items like this shipped to a company in the US and then pick them up from there. Would this be possible at all?

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