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Level1 was immensely satisfying and interesting, but the pvp challenge was .. well.. dead. By the time real life let me join others were throwing GPU based mine
by Strom 13y ago
Level1 was immensely satisfying and interesting, but the pvp challenge was .. well.. dead. By the time real life let me join others were throwing GPU based miners at the problem and traffic was constantly heavy anyway. So amazing level, the arena type thing was imho not a good idea.
PvP challange dead .. but heavy traffic? Sounds like a contradiction. I think it's a flawed deduction that the arena was a bad idea because it took more than a casual glance at the challange to be competetive. For me, level 1 was definitely the highlight of the CTF. I was one of the few who wrote a GPU miner, and the constant competition of improving my miner vs. the other active participators was extremely exciting.
- henrikm85 13y agoGood job. Did you have previous experience with writing GPU code?
- Strom 13y agoHad zero experience with programming for the GPU, or with OpenCL. Took this as an opportunity to learn both. I was surprised both with how amazingly fast the GPU is, and how amazingly buggy the AMD OpenCL compiler optimizer is. (Found multiple bugs where it generates memory corrupting code.)