Darn, I was hoping to see bc-250's (aka PS5 chips) in there. They've recently become popular for inference and they are only about $200 on ebay. They hold a special place in my heart because I deployed 20k of them and I'm glad to see they are finding a purpose now and not just e-waste.

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Aurornis 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting! I had only heard of them as cheap gaming boxes. Didn't know they were being used for cheap inference, too, but it makes sense.

> They hold a special place in my heart because I deployed 20k

Sounds like something I'd love to hear more about if you can share

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latchkey 5 hours ago | parent [-]

ethereum mining, long shut down...

	▲	Scoundreller an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This needs a blog post & HN submission

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riedel 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cool stuff. Just read: https://github.com/akandr/bc250

	▲	latchkey 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yea, I'm bummed I didn't know about the 40-CU unlock, although it probably wouldn't have had much impact on mining performance. It still would have been neat to test. I did build a whole automated solution for auto-tuning each individual board. It would start at the "best" settings and then downgrade every time there was a crash. If it wasn't crashing, then those were the new "best" settings for that individual chip.

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eso_logic 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wow holy crap this is news to me! I will have to consider picking some of these up for testing, what is it like working with them?

	▲	latchkey 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		there is a discord server for fans of bc-250... lots of information there.