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Bitcoin miner for the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture

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This is a Bitcoin miner for the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA). It was developed on a PS3 using Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1.

Bitcoin donations accepted: 18xDLQsJ94ihhx5YovqAhVY2b9SC5b81h

Requirements

Debian Packages [aptitude install ...]

  • make
  • gcc
  • binutils-spu
  • ruby1.9.1-dev
  • libspe2-dev

gcc-spu binutils ruby1.9.1 libspe2-2

(packages marked > should be included automatically as dependencies of packages marked *)

Ruby Gems [gem1.9.1 install ...]

  • net-http-persistent

System

In order to make use of your SPEs under Linux, you must have spufs mounted on /spu. For example:

mount -t spufs spufs /spu

Or equivalently, ensure /etc/fstab contains a line similar to the following:

spufs /spu spufs defaults 0 0

Building

$ make

Running

$ ./cellminer --help

RPC username and password will default to those found in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf.

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