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authorAlex Barcelo <alex@betarho.net>2015-07-13 12:55:14 +0000
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[bitcoin-dev] About hardware accelerators advantages for full-node (not mining)
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+I am searching for guidance and opinion in the subject's matter. I will b=
+egin with my use case, too see whether my ideas makes sense or not.=0A=0A=
+I have a Jetson TK1[1], which is a GPU (CUDA) powered development board. =
+I thought that it may be a power-efficient device (in bitcoin environment=
+), and thought about having it as a full-node. Either as a public full-no=
+de, if it makes sense, or a local full-node, to allow my PCs to perform r=
+elay onto the bitcoind in the Jetson. My idea is to run a bitcoind daemon=
+ on the Jetson as a node with high performance-per-watt (also cheap and r=
+epurposable). A pure-CPU implementation of bitcoind will clog the CPU=0A=
+=0AI assume that there are a bunch of heavy-compute highly-parallel funct=
+ions which could be "outsourced" to a GPU. I may want to fork and/or cont=
+ribute on that. However, maybe I am speaking nonsense. I have more backgr=
+ound on parallel programming than my knowledge on bitcoin protocol. So, b=
+efore coding a complete mess, I wanted to hear some opinions on the idea/=
+configuration.=0A=0A[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/jetson-tk1
+
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+per=3D"true" style=3D"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I=
+ am searching for guidance and opinion in the subject's matter. I will be=
+gin with my use case, too see whether my ideas makes sense or not.<br><br=
+>I have a Jetson TK1[1], which is a GPU (CUDA) powered development board.=
+ I thought that it may be a power-efficient device (in bitcoin environmen=
+t), and thought about having it as a full-node. Either as a public full-n=
+ode, if it makes sense, or a local full-node, to allow my PCs to perform =
+relay onto the bitcoind in the Jetson. My idea is to run a bitcoind daemo=
+n on the Jetson as a node with high performance-per-watt (also cheap and =
+repurposable). A pure-CPU implementation of bitcoind will clog the CPU<br=
+><br>I assume that there are a bunch of heavy-compute highly-parallel fun=
+ctions which could be "outsourced" to a GPU. I may want to fork and/or co=
+ntribute on that. However, maybe I am speaking nonsense. I have more back=
+ground on parallel programming than my knowledge on bitcoin protocol. So,=
+ before coding a complete mess, I wanted to hear some opinions on the ide=
+a/configuration.<br><br>[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/jetson-tk1</div>=
+</body></html>
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