HI All,
This is arm_race/rapidminer, jumphit and grapefruit from Agilmine. Some of you may know me from other threads, we are a group of engineers enthusiastic about building affordable & accessible fpga mining devices for bitcointalk community members. In August we built the world's very first custom designed FPGA altcoin miner "Agilmine A1", which can efficiently mine multiple algorithm at GPU level hashing performance with only 1/5 of GPU power consumption (link below).
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/agilmine-your-real-altcoin-fpga-miner-updated-816-4493669And thanks to our beloved and well trusted member philipma1957 who helped to verify that it is a true product that exists, and can achieve the claimed performance. He has been happily mining it for months! see his video reviews below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yle13b1kgWohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=105&v=_bet2aRAhvwSince then we have received tons of inquiries and comments from our forum members, starting to realize that the HW capability of Agilmine A1 FPGA may not meet the requirement of our demanding customers
, we started looking for another fpga chip that can yield higher performance, yet at a cost effective price, resulting in shorter ROI, but at the same time not compromising the easy-of-use feature of A1 miner. We have conducted collaboration effort with major fpga manufacturers, and contacted fpga distributors worldwide to search for an optimal solution. What is proposed here is what we believe that would work after months of work. But to make it happen, we need your feedback and suggestion, and hopefully your support behind it eventually.
Agilmine UltraMiner (UM): Price $750 USD
Standalone FPGA miner designed with Xilinx UltraScale+ Kintex FPGA chip, which is the Best Price/Performance/Watt Balanced 16nm FPGA device. The design concept is similar to the Agilmine A1 miner, expect 4x performance gain at the cost of 2x power consumption. the estimated hash rate performance see the table below.
Agilmine UltraPlus Miner(UPM): Price $1099 USD
Standalone FPGA miner designed with Xilinx UltraScale+ Virtex, which is the Highest Performance 16nm FPGA device in the world. Expect 40%-60% performance gain compared to UltraMiner. Plus, it is equipped with proprietary Hyperlink IO connector, allowing 2 or more miners connected together to mine in "CO-OP" mode, allowing more efficient implementation for mining complex algorithms like PHI2, Lyra2REV2, TimeTravel10 and Xevan. In general consider additional 25% performance gain compared to mining in standalone mode. Plus, the hw resource should allow mining CryptoNightV8. Many work still in progress, we will release more data later once available.
* No dev fee on all algo
Moving forward, we will proceed with this product development if there is enough interest. It is very aggressive low price we can get it from the fpga supplier only when the volume is high. Now I understand there is certain trust issue with regard to the fpga miner, so we are considering launching a kickstarter campaign to raise fund for production. The benefit of using kickstarter is that if we fail to deliver in the last, you will have your money back, guaranteed by the platform agreements.
Please let us know what you think about it, is it something you are interested in or you think it is a bad idea and please tell us why?
We are available on discord channel, or you can shoot me email always. Again transparency and openness is the key, we intend to build a community owned project!
https://discord.gg/R36gzXM[email protected]You can also join our
mailist by clicking the link below we will send periodic project update to you!
http://eepurl.com/dMfjhQP.S. for A1 miner, we are thinking of building a small batch if you are interested in buying.
