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legendary
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September 01, 2013, 05:00:48 AM
#25
Anyone bought one of these? Please let us know! I'm willing to get wet with this project.

I paid for one, and I'm on the preorder list. I'm looking forward to play with it!!
Please update is with info once you recieve one.
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August 31, 2013, 02:46:39 PM
#24
Anyone bought one of these? Please let us know! I'm willing to get wet with this project.

I paid for one, and I'm on the preorder list. I'm looking forward to play with it!!
I am very curious to see how it works - would seem like an ideal match on a price/xpm mining basis.
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August 31, 2013, 12:49:00 PM
#23
Anyone bought one of these? Please let us know! I'm willing to get wet with this project.

I paid for one, and I'm on the preorder list. I'm looking forward to play with it!!
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August 31, 2013, 10:33:13 AM
#22
Plus it is very inexpensive.  probably cheaper than leasing a dedicated server.
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August 31, 2013, 05:53:39 AM
#21
The (rather pessimistic) performance estimate for the parallella is from 2kh to 4kh per core, that's from 32Kh to 64kh for a 16 core board, consuming about 5w of power.
It's not that impressive but considering it's low wattage it could be worth a try.
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August 31, 2013, 04:33:29 AM
#20
Anyone bought one of these? Please let us know! I'm willing to get wet with this project.
legendary
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August 04, 2013, 11:03:02 AM
#19
With efforts to make a GPU miner for Primecoin floundering (and I am skeptical it would even be more effective than a system with a good 64-bit X86 CPU and fast memory), I was wondering if using Parallela to build a Primecoin mining rig would work well.  It is low power, ideal for CPU intensive tasks, can easily add fast memory to it cheaply and is quiet and compact.  It is also infinitely expandable.

I was thinking of ordering: http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-cluster-kit
This was a kickstarter project.  Apparently they have already shipped boards to kickstarter contributors and sales to other customers will start in August.  Here is the page describing this project: http://www.adapteva.com/introduction/

It strikes me this would be good for any CPU intensive mining coin and Primecoin may be a great candidate for this.  

Thoughts?

Don't waste your time or money. If you understood the technology you would know that it's not anywhere near powerful enough to be used to mine Primecoins more effectively than a Xenon. Sure you could give it a try but I think it's just not worth the expense for the very marginal gain.
Stack up 100 of these together, and then we can talk. Untill then all i hear is nonsense  Roll Eyes
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August 04, 2013, 10:48:41 AM
#18
With efforts to make a GPU miner for Primecoin floundering (and I am skeptical it would even be more effective than a system with a good 64-bit X86 CPU and fast memory), I was wondering if using Parallela to build a Primecoin mining rig would work well.  It is low power, ideal for CPU intensive tasks, can easily add fast memory to it cheaply and is quiet and compact.  It is also infinitely expandable.

I was thinking of ordering: http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-cluster-kit
This was a kickstarter project.  Apparently they have already shipped boards to kickstarter contributors and sales to other customers will start in August.  Here is the page describing this project: http://www.adapteva.com/introduction/

It strikes me this would be good for any CPU intensive mining coin and Primecoin may be a great candidate for this.  

Thoughts?

Don't waste your time or money. If you understood the technology you would know that it's not anywhere near powerful enough to be used to mine Primecoins more effectively than a Xenon. Sure you could give it a try but I think it's just not worth the expense for the very marginal gain.
Do you think a Xeon is better than a high end over clocked i7 processor?

With Primecoin it's hard to tell. I would think by design a Xeon is better but we'd have to do a test to find out which one actually generates more primes.
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August 02, 2013, 09:37:19 AM
#17
With efforts to make a GPU miner for Primecoin floundering (and I am skeptical it would even be more effective than a system with a good 64-bit X86 CPU and fast memory), I was wondering if using Parallela to build a Primecoin mining rig would work well.  It is low power, ideal for CPU intensive tasks, can easily add fast memory to it cheaply and is quiet and compact.  It is also infinitely expandable.

I was thinking of ordering: http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-cluster-kit
This was a kickstarter project.  Apparently they have already shipped boards to kickstarter contributors and sales to other customers will start in August.  Here is the page describing this project: http://www.adapteva.com/introduction/

It strikes me this would be good for any CPU intensive mining coin and Primecoin may be a great candidate for this.  

Thoughts?

Don't waste your time or money. If you understood the technology you would know that it's not anywhere near powerful enough to be used to mine Primecoins more effectively than a Xenon. Sure you could give it a try but I think it's just not worth the expense for the very marginal gain.
Do you think a Xeon is better than a high end over clocked i7 processor?
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August 02, 2013, 09:15:01 AM
#16
With efforts to make a GPU miner for Primecoin floundering (and I am skeptical it would even be more effective than a system with a good 64-bit X86 CPU and fast memory), I was wondering if using Parallela to build a Primecoin mining rig would work well.  It is low power, ideal for CPU intensive tasks, can easily add fast memory to it cheaply and is quiet and compact.  It is also infinitely expandable.

I was thinking of ordering: http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-cluster-kit
This was a kickstarter project.  Apparently they have already shipped boards to kickstarter contributors and sales to other customers will start in August.  Here is the page describing this project: http://www.adapteva.com/introduction/

It strikes me this would be good for any CPU intensive mining coin and Primecoin may be a great candidate for this.  

Thoughts?

Don't waste your time or money. If you understood the technology you would know that it's not anywhere near powerful enough to be used to mine Primecoins more effectively than a Xenon. Sure you could give it a try but I think it's just not worth the expense for the very marginal gain.
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August 02, 2013, 08:45:51 AM
#15
Performance vs power consumption.  Iirc you would be paying in the neighborhood of 11 $/1khs
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August 02, 2013, 07:05:21 AM
#14
The power consumption is just way too high and you would need the 1024 to achieve ok speeds but bad power again.
Way lower than GPUs and CPUs for the expected performance.  High compared to what?
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August 02, 2013, 07:04:09 AM
#13
The power consumption is just way too high and you would need the 1024 to achieve ok speeds but bad power again.
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August 02, 2013, 05:11:58 AM
#12
No good for scrypt, primecoin should work.

Even 7020 version with 512KB of RAM?  I bought that version a few days ago just for fun, mainly for Monte Carlo/Machine learning stuff, but I thought I'd give it a go for some scrypt mining.  

-Merc

When I tried to buy it just now it said the 7020 version isn't available. How did you buy it?

Edit: Had to select With GPIO also Tongue
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August 01, 2013, 01:47:56 AM
#11
No good for scrypt, primecoin should work.

Even 7020 version with 512KB of RAM?  I bought that version a few days ago just for fun, mainly for Monte Carlo/Machine learning stuff, but I thought I'd give it a go for some scrypt mining. 

-Merc
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July 31, 2013, 07:50:10 PM
#10
The Parallela doesn't look that great for floating point operations, hashing, etc.  I would go with a Xeon Phi if I was you

Care to venture a guess at what something like this would be capable of?

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?p=SY-74GRTPT&c=fr&pid=bd33f3bedf5496e23ff3cf7116596d12ea8d57decd4d9ff9d1f1455cd7c13848&gclid=COKTh__72LgCFa9fQgodnn8AqA

Looks like a barebones chassis w/ Mobo for a Xeon processor. you'd get a pretty good rate on it, but tbh it's more cost effective to buy a corei5 or corei7, slap it in a cheap chassis. Maybe $500 per unit if you price it right.
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July 31, 2013, 12:11:03 AM
#9
The Parallela doesn't look that great for floating point operations, hashing, etc.  I would go with a Xeon Phi if I was you

Care to venture a guess at what something like this would be capable of?

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?p=SY-74GRTPT&c=fr&pid=bd33f3bedf5496e23ff3cf7116596d12ea8d57decd4d9ff9d1f1455cd7c13848&gclid=COKTh__72LgCFa9fQgodnn8AqA
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July 30, 2013, 11:57:50 PM
#8
The Parallela doesn't look that great for floating point operations, hashing, etc.  I would go with a Xeon Phi if I was you
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July 30, 2013, 11:44:46 PM
#7
No good for scrypt, primecoin should work.
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July 30, 2013, 11:42:33 PM
#6
I'm thinking this would make a good piece of hardware to hook up to my 3D printer. I can use it as the print server and have it do all the slicing for me. Or even mod it to completely control the 3D printer by adding stepper drivers.
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