RPi / ARM Cross-Platform/Architecture Miner - Anybody Interested?
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Hi folks,
New to forums and I've been looking at Burst for the last month and have been having a play around with it. I thought best way to get stuck in would be to dive into the deep end and write some plotting and mining software mainly for fun. I know there's already tonnes out there and this may not bring a lot to the table but I thought I'd share it.
What I've ended up with from a mining perspective seems to work fine. I've designed it so it can relatively easily run on a whole selection of hardware - not just x64 PCs. Specifically I've tested this on Windows/Linux PC builds as well as a Raspberry Pi running Linux. It should also run on any ARM-based CPU that can run either Windows ARM (8+) or Linux (Ubuntu easiest for sorting out dependencies).
I haven't packaged this as binaries yet or with installers as I'm not sure if it's even of interest to anyone considering the selection of software that's out there already. I'd like to get an idea of whether anyone is actually interested in using this. If people are I'm happy to put the time in to keep it maintained and also pick up work around a plotter for this as well.
Feel free to check the code out for now at Github: https://github.com/guytp/burst-sharp - it requires Dotnet core to be installed to run it (I did a recent YouTube video on this with supporting instructions at https://guyrobottv.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/installing-net-core-2-on-a-raspberry-pi/). If anybody wants a pre-built DLL for this now to have a play with I can put one together.
If anyone is interested let me know. As an indication RPi mining (over a network share) was ~5MBps on some unoptimised plots that accessing same share/plots via a PC running Creep was pulling 20MBps. Haven't done any direct USB tests yet. Whilst I'm not sure the Pi is the solution some of the Octa-core ARM boards with USB3/gigabit ethernet could well be an incredibly low-powered way to run mining farms which is what got me thinking.
Thanks,
Guy
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I would actually love to try this.
I already set up creepminer on the raspberry pi 1, but the problem is low read speeds, I am just doing about 5MB/s via USB.
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For anybody that's interested I've just created the readme detailing current state of the project and installation instructions over at GitHub and a first release of the miner.
GitHub Readme: https://github.com/guytp/burst-sharp
Miner v0.1.597: https://github.com/guytp/burst-sharp/releases/tag/v0.1.597.0
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Oh yes there's interest. Lots of interest. Raspberry Pi Burst miner yes please. Particularly if you can take advantage of AVX2 instructions and/or OpenCL. I don't know if those little processors even support such things.
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i will try it out i am having trouble currently plotting drives but will try later, i am trying to get a asset or 2 right now and it would be awesome if someone donated a few coins thanks.
