Cuckoo Cycle https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo rates as the most memory intensive and slowest PoW ever. With the default graph size of 2^30 (denoted cuckoo30) nodes (roughly a billion), it takes the fastest CPU 2.5 seconds for look for a 42-cycle. For the past few months I’ve been working on porting that code to CUDA. It’s running well enough now to convincingly outperform CPUs. Today I finally had a chance to run it on a 1080ti, where it runs each attempt in a cool 1.3 seconds.
Considering my amateur level GPU coding skills, this bodes well for a future sub-second miner.
The race is on!
Indeed, today was the first time I was able to light up the yeastmonster building a proper cuckoo-30chain on all 3 cards at once at a blazing 1.7 solutions per second! Even though the race is still on for sub-second, we’re at a point where cuckoo 30 is just about ready for deployment on testnet2. Well done!
I started playing round to try get the cuckoo miner running on android (simpleminer). Not got any performance stats yet or worked through if this could even be used with grin. but managed to find some solutions.
nice @chris
How did you go about building the grin miner for Android? Have you had time to try it with the latest grin cpu miner? Any problem solving notes you can share about how to build grin for android?
