Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2
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@gpedro said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:
@rnahlawi you missed a ")" xD
@daWallet and @IceBurst are the creators of that tools but i think they didn't tried this approach in Pi's only on mobiles, tablets and Android TV's!So I know I could get it working but it's really not a "best use of time" for me. The Android project is designed to reach the masses. The Pi targets the "tinkering" community. The processing power of a Pi would make plotting and mining brutal if you had an external drive attached. I don't see it as a viable tool for mining if you have TBs attached externally as the processor still have to perform a number of SHA calculations (given only one per 4096 nonces)
Sorry my response wasn't more positive.
-IceBurst
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@IceBurst Plotting would be brutal, but with an external drive that was pre-plotted, could a Pi mine ?
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@haitch said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:
@IceBurst Plotting would be brutal, but with an external drive that was pre-plotted, could a Pi mine ?
Could it? Yes, Could it do it in a timely manor? Probably not. I don't have any empirical data to support this its just a hypothesis based on what I have seen in Android World.
-IceBurst
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@IceBurst That was my thought as well - but having never used a Pi I wanted a better informed opinion.
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@IceBurst said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:
@haitch said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:
@IceBurst Plotting would be brutal, but with an external drive that was pre-plotted, could a Pi mine ?
Could it? Yes, Could it do it in a timely manor? Probably not. I don't have any empirical data to support this its just a hypothesis based on what I have seen in Android World.
-IceBurst
I agree with the older Pis, but some of the newer ones may be faster. Especially if the miner were written in python.
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@Focus said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:
@IceBurst said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:
@haitch said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:
@IceBurst Plotting would be brutal, but with an external drive that was pre-plotted, could a Pi mine ?
Could it? Yes, Could it do it in a timely manor? Probably not. I don't have any empirical data to support this its just a hypothesis based on what I have seen in Android World.
-IceBurst
I agree with the older Pis, but some of the newer ones may be faster. Especially if the miner were written in python.
We have someone in here that i know is good in python ;D
@ccminer What are your thoughts?@IceBurst Thanks for the feedback... Ofc i don't think that for plotting a Pi would be good but for mining could be amazing if it reads with good times xD
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I was thinking of building a pi cluster. How would that match up, or would it not be able to utilize all of the cpu's running.
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Well what I wanted was to use my computer for plotting and regular computer stuff and to use my RPi2s as the platforms to run the wallet/miner for external HDDs attached to them, in over clock mode the processor gets about 1100 MHz I believe but I'd have to double check on that.
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@socal said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:
Well what I wanted was to use my computer for plotting and regular computer stuff and to use my RPi2s as the platforms to run the wallet/miner for external HDDs attached to them, in over clock mode the processor gets about 1100 MHz I believe but I'd have to double check on that.
Don't remember off hane, do any Pi's have USB 3.0?
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@gpedro I had the idea to write a python miner as I said while ago to @luxe, but I didn't even start to look at it!
about mining on PI I guess that the main problem will be the harware.- I don't know how many devices you can plug to it (it is usb 3??)
- I don't know how fast the whole procedure will be (rather slow I guess!)
In any case python should be faster than java in execute the scripts, so for sure is a better solutions for devices like PI
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Even the latest raspberry pi 3 model B has only 4 x usb 2.0 ports.
They share the same bus as the 100mbit ethernet port meaning your total throughput on all 4 usb ports + ethernet port is capped out at 12.5MBytes/sClustering pis is a fun experiment, but for the cost ($35/unit + 3A power adapters + ethernet switch + powered USB hub) you would be able to get a cheap used x86 intel system with 4x sata connectors and slap in an old radeon hd gpu
I've been tinkering with pis a long time, and honestly unless you just happened to have a bunch laying around it wouldn't be a good investment for burst mining
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@altcryptomining You could always get a powered usb hub.
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@rapidfireman true, but you're still limited by the usb 2.0 throughput.
and for stability the raspi3 needs 2.4A power adaptor for itself anyway (onboard bluetooth and wifi are power hogs... who knew?)
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@rapidfireman They're still be sharing that 12.5MB/sec system bus. For comparison - the SATA drive in your PC can do 125MB/sec.
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@haitch Still a fun project to get going though (Cheaper than mining on a phone)
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Banana Pi is more interesting for Burst mining. It has Sata and 1 Gbit Ethernet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Pi#Banana_Pi_M3
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@daWallet @haitch @altcryptomining Like we always say BURST is for every person on earth and the purpose of the Pi's was to people in countries that don't have the ability to have a PC in their homes, could still have a smaller and cheaper PC, to promote further developments and give them a chance of having technology in their hands, so IMHO we should do something that allow this persons to mine with it, even if it will not be as viable as mine with a PC or a Android phone...
I'm pretty sure that an Android could still be a extreme difficult dream to achieve in some countries of Africa, and Pi's are cheaper and even in some cases distributed in there for free, from ONG's so i think we should still have a way of mining with Pi's for the reason i explained above and just for the reason that we can claim that EVERYTHING could mine BURST! Even a Toaster hahaha?!?!?
@ccminer I think a python miner would be pretty much appreciated and i know you just throught out the idea (some weeks ago), but i think you should at least start thinking how this can be done and if you need aditional informations about how PoC algo work and stuff like that, let me know and i can try to look for the right person to help you with that...
@daWallet @luxe and some others should be an extreme help in that field if some kind of additional info's are needed... They are always willing to help in this fields if that helps developing new features for BURST and it should not take too much of their time just pointing you in the right direction IMO... ;D
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@gpedro OK mate!
we will keep in touch about it ;)
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@daWallet said in Burst plotting/mining with Raspberry Pi2:
Banana Pi is more interesting for Burst mining. It has Sata and 1 Gbit Ethernet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Pi#Banana_Pi_M3The Odroid XU4 is even better.
For a comparisen see my older posts @ Odroid/RPi discussion Thread
Here where my conclusions from this post:
"Nethertheless i mine succesfull on my odroid XU4. The problem is, that it takes long time to mine the big HDDs (4TB take ~2,25min for mining with the CPU, 8TB ~ 4-5min)"
"i think with an Pi2 or Pi3 the time you need for the mining process is much higher. You only need to compare the CPU-specs between the XU4 and the Raspberry-Pis. Also the RAM is importend and 1GB is not enough for bigger HDDs. With the XU4 iam in the range of the average Block-time of 4mins. So the Pi would only work well for smaller plots (maybe for two 2TB-hdds, but didnt test it)"
The Banan Pi should be somewhere in between these two...
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