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Topic: Can this be used for Bitcoin mining? (Read 5726 times)

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October 29, 2012, 05:20:26 PM
#6
From another thread:

I do not believe this will be at all useful for mining.  16 processors at 700MHz each = roughly the same as 4 processors at 2800MHz (2.8GHz) which is any modern PC CPU. 

So would you be excited about a new quad core CPU running at 2.8GHz from Intel or AMD?  I certainly would not be.

So it's just as useful as CPU mining.  If that gets you excited, go for it.
legendary
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October 13, 2012, 08:21:28 PM
#4
Theres some more indepth talk here about it

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/45ghz-199-supercomputer-115021
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October 10, 2012, 08:10:26 AM
#3
Not likely. +1 to file compression or decoding/encoding power.
vip
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October 10, 2012, 08:03:19 AM
#2
possibly, at about the speed of 64 cpus
a 7970 has 2048 stream processors operating in parallel
FLOPS means nothing in Bitcoin mining - sorry Smiley
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October 10, 2012, 07:54:29 AM
#1
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone?ref=home_popular

50 GFLOPS/Watt, 64 cores it comes with openCL drivers so in theory it should work no?
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