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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I paid for one, and I'm on the preorder list. I'm looking forward to play with it!!
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!!
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!!
Plus it is very inexpensive. probably cheaper than leasing a dedicated server.
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.
It's not that impressive but considering it's low wattage it could be worth a try.
Anyone bought one of these? Please let us know! I'm willing to get wet with this project.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
Performance vs power consumption. Iirc you would be paying in the neighborhood of 11 $/1khs
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?
The power consumption is just way too high and you would need the 1024 to achieve ok speeds but bad power again.
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
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
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.
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
The Parallela doesn't look that great for floating point operations, hashing, etc. I would go with a Xeon Phi if I was you
No good for scrypt, primecoin should work.
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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