HashFast announces specs for new ASIC: 400GH/s - page 525.

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Quote from: perezoso on October 11, 2013, 02:22:11 PM

I'm a batch one customer that has also ordered an upgrade kit, to fill that second slot on the Baby Jet. Some information I would like to have concerns installation of the upgrade kit. The news that the ASIC is on a board already is quite good but, more specifically, what's the upgrade procedure going to be like? As in... what kind of tools or skills required?

I'm comfortable doing basic computer upgrades and maintenance - installing and replacing drives, fans, memory, etc.. - but haven't wielded a soldering iron in twenty years. And wasn't very good at it when I did. So I'm wondering if the upgrade will be something that can be accomplished with some screwdrivers and careful dis/reassembly, or something more involved?

Congratulations on your Batch One Baby Jet and Upgrade Kit.

You will find installing the second mini-board to be a quick and easy process.

The procedure is as simple as mounting the mini-board on case's risers, hooking up the second cooling unit, and swapping out the original PSU for the more powerful one. Then connect the USB cable to the Raspberry Pi controller and you're done!

All you need is a screwdriver and a beer, as depicted below:

The beer is actually optional, but highly recommended. You may also use a sonic screwdriver, if available in your galaxy and/or timeline! Wink

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The Baby Jet is using the Seasonic X-1000 - that PSU is 91.0% efficient with 1 module. See the glowing review here:

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=264

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i wanna buy more cheaper for me. how i choose??
can i pay with credictcard and bitcoin mix?

do you ship to brazil??

thanks!!

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The realist

I discussed it before HF before and I'm pretty sure with the MPP, it's just raw chips. They said the price of the PCB would be somewhere around 1-2k.

HF said they would be selling the boards and also will seek out 3rd party to build/sell it also.

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My guess is that MPP will come as golden nonce chip modules. Not raw chips.

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on October 11, 2013, 03:39:55 PM

The ASIC isn't on a board already. The MPP is raw chips.

The unsurprising snarky response from DPoS aside, are you sure about this? Seems to me as if a certain ambiguity is being maintained on this and some other issues.

On the other hand, my post was actually about the upgrade kit, not the MPP. This thingamajig: http://hashfast.com/shop/baby-jet-upgrade-kit/

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I can not wait for my baby jet ... I hope not to expect too much time ... Roll Eyes

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Quote from: af_newbie on October 11, 2013, 07:43:35 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on October 11, 2013, 06:18:39 PM

New blog post:

https://hashfast.com/big-news-hashfast-signs-exclusive-deal-with-ciara-technologies/

calichomp gets his wish!

An old Nortel connection? Their engineering top girl is from Canada, no?

We always build teams with people we have put out fires with, don't we.

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Quote from: cypherdoc on October 11, 2013, 06:18:39 PM

New blog post:

https://hashfast.com/big-news-hashfast-signs-exclusive-deal-with-ciara-technologies/

calichomp gets his wish!

An old Nortel connection? Their engineering top girl is from Canada, no?

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Quote from: -ck on October 11, 2013, 07:33:26 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on October 11, 2013, 07:27:02 PM

Quote from: -ck on October 11, 2013, 07:15:45 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: gnar1ta$ on October 10, 2013, 11:02:01 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on October 10, 2013, 10:52:03 PM

it'll come preinstalled with cgminer which ckolivas has already seen and will be working on.

I think this gets overlooked a lot. Having an experienced mining software developer woking on product software before launch has not been usual way around here. It's a very nice change and I'm looking forward to the results. +1 to hashfast for being proactive on this.

Agreed.

Thanks for your approval. Remember I just write the software though and have no control over the how when and what of the hardware performance, delivery, price, schedule etc. etc. My sum input into the hardware is only to do with the communication protocol and some input into how the microcontroller works. For my part, I have been pleased with what I've been involved in. That should not be taken as any kind of comment positive or negative about the hardware.

con, i'm thinking of installing the integrated cgminer/controller drivers directly onto my solo mining server which runs Stratum. how well would that work?

The final driver will be just part of a regular cgminer release so you can do whatever you want with it, so running it from any sort of PC or embedded device that can run cgminer would be fine. To run the stratum server as well as the mining software it'd probably need to be a real PC though, as the RPi isn't really up to that.

then i'm good. i'm running Ubuntu on a full pc.

sounds like i'll be able to get rid of the controller device.

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Quote from: cypherdoc on October 11, 2013, 07:27:02 PM

Quote from: -ck on October 11, 2013, 07:15:45 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: gnar1ta$ on October 10, 2013, 11:02:01 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on October 10, 2013, 10:52:03 PM

it'll come preinstalled with cgminer which ckolivas has already seen and will be working on.

I think this gets overlooked a lot. Having an experienced mining software developer woking on product software before launch has not been usual way around here. It's a very nice change and I'm looking forward to the results. +1 to hashfast for being proactive on this.

Agreed.

Thanks for your approval. Remember I just write the software though and have no control over the how when and what of the hardware performance, delivery, price, schedule etc. etc. My sum input into the hardware is only to do with the communication protocol and some input into how the microcontroller works. For my part, I have been pleased with what I've been involved in. That should not be taken as any kind of comment positive or negative about the hardware.

con, i'm thinking of installing the integrated cgminer/controller drivers directly onto my solo mining server which runs Stratum. how well would that work?

The final driver will be just part of a regular cgminer release so you can do whatever you want with it, so running it from any sort of PC or embedded device that can run cgminer would be fine. To run the stratum server as well as the mining software it'd probably need to be a real PC though, as the RPi isn't really up to that.

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Quote from: -ck on October 11, 2013, 07:15:45 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: gnar1ta$ on October 10, 2013, 11:02:01 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on October 10, 2013, 10:52:03 PM

it'll come preinstalled with cgminer which ckolivas has already seen and will be working on.

I think this gets overlooked a lot. Having an experienced mining software developer woking on product software before launch has not been usual way around here. It's a very nice change and I'm looking forward to the results. +1 to hashfast for being proactive on this.

Agreed.

Thanks for your approval. Remember I just write the software though and have no control over the how when and what of the hardware performance, delivery, price, schedule etc. etc. My sum input into the hardware is only to do with the communication protocol and some input into how the microcontroller works. For my part, I have been pleased with what I've been involved in. That should not be taken as any kind of comment positive or negative about the hardware.

con, i'm thinking of installing the integrated cgminer/controller drivers directly onto my solo mining server which runs Stratum. how well would that work?

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: ?? on ??

Quote from: gnar1ta$ on October 10, 2013, 11:02:01 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on October 10, 2013, 10:52:03 PM

it'll come preinstalled with cgminer which ckolivas has already seen and will be working on.

I think this gets overlooked a lot. Having an experienced mining software developer woking on product software before launch has not been usual way around here. It's a very nice change and I'm looking forward to the results. +1 to hashfast for being proactive on this.

Agreed.

Thanks for your approval. Remember I just write the software though and have no control over the how when and what of the hardware performance, delivery, price, schedule etc. etc. My sum input into the hardware is only to do with the communication protocol and some input into how the microcontroller works. For my part, I have been pleased with what I've been involved in. That should not be taken as any kind of comment positive or negative about the hardware.

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When is Hashfast scheduled to release their prototype babyjet?

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since PSU's seem to be the topic for the day, guess what HF is shipping as stock!?

Seasonics!

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Cool. So do we still have to pay extra taxes now if I'm in Canada and they're shipping from Montreal?

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New blog post:

https://hashfast.com/big-news-hashfast-signs-exclusive-deal-with-ciara-technologies/

calichomp gets his wish!

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Quote from: perezoso on October 11, 2013, 02:22:11 PM

I'm a batch one customer that has also ordered an upgrade kit, to fill that second slot on the Baby Jet. Some information I would like to have concerns installation of the upgrade kit. The news that the ASIC is on a board already is quite good but, more specifically, what's the upgrade procedure going to be like? As in... what kind of tools or skills required?

I'm comfortable doing basic computer upgrades and maintenance - installing and replacing drives, fans, memory, etc.. - but haven't wielded a soldering iron in twenty years. And wasn't very good at it when I did. So I'm wondering if the upgrade will be something that can be accomplished with some screwdrivers and careful dis/reassembly, or something more involved?

The ASIC isn't on a board already. The MPP is raw chips. IF due to ROI% the MPP entitles you to 2 chips you will receive literally 2 chips. It will require manufacturing the rest of the system including the board the chip is mounted to. It won't be done by you at home. Either you will pay (an as of yet not announced) price for HF to build an ASIC board from your free chip or you will use a third party to build a board for you (like third parties build boards using Avalon, Bitfury and even BFL chips). Another option would be to simply sell the chips.

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Quote from: perezoso on October 11, 2013, 02:22:11 PM

As in... what kind of tools or skills required?

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I'm a batch one customer that has also ordered an upgrade kit, to fill that second slot on the Baby Jet. Some information I would like to have concerns installation of the upgrade kit. The news that the ASIC is on a board already is quite good but, more specifically, what's the upgrade procedure going to be like? As in... what kind of tools or skills required?

I'm comfortable doing basic computer upgrades and maintenance - installing and replacing drives, fans, memory, etc.. - but haven't wielded a soldering iron in twenty years. And wasn't very good at it when I did. So I'm wondering if the upgrade will be something that can be accomplished with some screwdrivers and careful dis/reassembly, or something more involved?

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