Topic: Mining programming-related questions (Read 2079 times)
Thanks, I guess that's a start. I'd appreciate it if you'd share what you can find if you have the time for it
I've actually been looking for the same thing; unfortunately I didn't find any useful "Anatomy of a Miner" document (I might write one myself once I get my head around it fully), but taking a look at the code for pyminer is probably a good bet - it seems to be the simplest and most readable one out there. Satoshi's original paper is also definitely worth the time, if you haven't taken a look at it already, to get the broad picture of what all this hashing actually achieves.
(I hope this is the right forum, if not sorry and please move it to the correct one 
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First of all: Regarding my programming "skills", I guess I can be called a novice with a little bit of advanced knowledge in writing programs. I am/have been working with Java, ANSI C and C++ for several years, and though I'm still far away from being a really good programmer I think I can say I learn very quickly once I've set myself a target on what I want to achieve. With that being said...
I'm trying to get a basic understanding on how the miners (especially the GPU miners) are working, how they're structured and what you need to build one. I've heard the term kernel a few times, so I guess there are a few trusty kernels that are specially built for the hash-calculating operations on GPUs (using OpenCL if I'm not mistaken) and if I've understood the principle correctly one just builds a miner on top of these kernels (please correct me if I got this wrong, as said before, I'm not very well-read on that topic).
To come to the point, I have a little project in mind which involves maybe building a mining-program and I was hoping you guys can maybe point me to some tutorials/examples or give me a few tips or so. If this little project succeeds I'll of course share it with you if you like
Though I can't tell you exactly what it'll be simply because I myself first have to see it through.
Thanks in advance!
)First of all: Regarding my programming "skills", I guess I can be called a novice with a little bit of advanced knowledge in writing programs. I am/have been working with Java, ANSI C and C++ for several years, and though I'm still far away from being a really good programmer I think I can say I learn very quickly once I've set myself a target on what I want to achieve. With that being said...
I'm trying to get a basic understanding on how the miners (especially the GPU miners) are working, how they're structured and what you need to build one. I've heard the term kernel a few times, so I guess there are a few trusty kernels that are specially built for the hash-calculating operations on GPUs (using OpenCL if I'm not mistaken) and if I've understood the principle correctly one just builds a miner on top of these kernels (please correct me if I got this wrong, as said before, I'm not very well-read on that topic).
To come to the point, I have a little project in mind which involves maybe building a mining-program and I was hoping you guys can maybe point me to some tutorials/examples or give me a few tips or so. If this little project succeeds I'll of course share it with you if you like
Though I can't tell you exactly what it'll be simply because I myself first have to see it through.Thanks in advance!
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