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These guys should contact nvidia directly, and ask to reserve some of the cards nvidia sells via their site. It releases small batches weekly. Anecdote: last

These guys should contact nvidia directly, and ask to reserve some of the cards nvidia sells via their site. It releases small batches weekly. Anecdote: last week it was 300 cards. Most of them are snatched by miners and scalpers (who resell them on ebay). I managed to get one card I need (to complete my pc) only by using monitoring script and automating chrome to purchase. 300 cards were gone in 4 minutes. The next day 12 more were available (possibly cancelled/failed orders of those 300).

toomuchtodo 9y ago
Nah, SETI should be crowdfunding to build ASIC boards tuned solely to do the necessary Fast Fourier Transform [1] operations to identify what they consider interesting signals from extraterrestrial sources. When the EFF commissioned the DES ASIC system for bruteforcing DES encryption in 1998, it only cost $210k [2]. I can only imagine design and fabrication costs have declined over 20 years. "The whole project was budgeted at about US $210,000. Of this, $80,000 was used to design, integrate, and test the EFF DES Cracker. The other $130,000 was for materials including chips, boards and all other components on the boards, card cages, power supplies, cooling, and a PC. The software for controlling the EFF DES Cracker was written separately as a volunteer project that took 4-5 weeks. The entire project was completed within about eighteen months, with much of that time being used for preliminary research. The core team contained fewer than ten people, none of whom worked full-time on the project. The final cost came in at well under $250,000." [1] https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_glossary/fft.php https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_glossary/fft.php [2] https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/HTML/19980716_eff_des_faq.html https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/HTM... [+] Entire book on the subject the EFF published for the intellectually curious: https://archive.org/details/crackingdessecre00elec https://archive.org/details/crackingdessecre00elec EDIT: @fundemental: Would love to hear more about this if you're willing to share and have the time. Contact info is in my profile.
- omgtehlion 9y ago
  Or maybe start a coin which uses those operations as PoW? Then miners will sort this out themselves ))
  - toomuchtodo 9y ago
    That is far more complicated than producing power efficient ASICs that aren't reliant on a tech fad, ASICs that can be colocated on site at each signal acquisition facility (or in someone's colo/datacenter). Your solution should be as simple as possible, but no more simple than that.
- fundamental 9y ago
  Interestingly last time I was active in this area (specifically VLBI radio astronomy), I was working on a project for moving FFT computations away from existing FPGA based solutions to GPU based ones in order to save money.
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toomuchtodo 9y ago

Nah, SETI should be crowdfunding to build ASIC boards tuned solely to do the necessary Fast Fourier Transform [1] operations to identify what they consider interesting signals from extraterrestrial sources. When the EFF commissioned the DES ASIC system for bruteforcing DES encryption in 1998, it only cost $210k [2]. I can only imagine design and fabrication costs have declined over 20 years. "The whole project was budgeted at about US $210,000. Of this, $80,000 was used to design, integrate, and test the EFF DES Cracker. The other $130,000 was for materials including chips, boards and all other components on the boards, card cages, power supplies, cooling, and a PC. The software for controlling the EFF DES Cracker was written separately as a volunteer project that took 4-5 weeks. The entire project was completed within about eighteen months, with much of that time being used for preliminary research. The core team contained fewer than ten people, none of whom worked full-time on the project. The final cost came in at well under $250,000." [1] https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_glossary/fft.php https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_glossary/fft.php [2] https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/HTML/19980716_eff_des_faq.html https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/HTM... [+] Entire book on the subject the EFF published for the intellectually curious: https://archive.org/details/crackingdessecre00elec https://archive.org/details/crackingdessecre00elec EDIT: @fundemental: Would love to hear more about this if you're willing to share and have the time. Contact info is in my profile.

omgtehlion 9y ago
Or maybe start a coin which uses those operations as PoW? Then miners will sort this out themselves ))
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  That is far more complicated than producing power efficient ASICs that aren't reliant on a tech fad, ASICs that can be colocated on site at each signal acquisition facility (or in someone's colo/datacenter). Your solution should be as simple as possible, but no more simple than that.
fundamental 9y ago
Interestingly last time I was active in this area (specifically VLBI radio astronomy), I was working on a project for moving FFT computations away from existing FPGA based solutions to GPU based ones in order to save money.
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