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From: "Alex Barcelo" <alex@betarho.net>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [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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 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>=
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