As everyone may have heard, there are 3 innovations coming from Max soon. These were developed around Aug-Sept 2022 and Max has been farming using them so they definitely work. There’s a bunch of posts discussing this in passing so I’m combining them here. Max has stated he is considering releasing all of this as a closed source Chia client with a dev fee.
Gigahorse is a madMAx chia plotter for NVIDIA GPUs which creates compressed k32 plots fully in RAM with 256G (recommended) or partially with 128G and one or more M.2 SSD’s. At Level 9 a K32 Plot is reduced to 68.9 GiB leading to a 47.2% increase in revenue per plot. A 3000 series Nvidia GPU is recommended although Gigahorse may work on older models, Max has mentioned adding in AMD support but has stated that they will be worse. An optimized setup with the best hardware will be able to plot under 120 seconds. Level 7-8 may be the most used as Level 9 uses a lot of your GPU’s power for a 6.6% improvement. I suggested calling these MC plots aka Max Compressed.
Max created a GPU farmer for these plots to allow for farming higher levels in mass. I don’t believe he has named it yet, possibly the Thunderdome? You can farm these on a cpu but the burden on the cpu gets too high around level 3-4 if you have a lot of plots. My guess is that a Pi can probably handle level 4 with 100-200TiB of plots but that will have to be tested.
Max also created a Plot Sink tool for distributing plots over your network.
Flexfarmer may support GPU farming. It has not been confirmed that this will be added in.
These plots have been working on Flexpool since Sept so we will definitely be among the first to support them. If your not on Flexpool already and want to be among the first I’d suggest moving. At 0.7% we have the lowest pool fee in the Top 5.
For updates and discussions I’d suggest joining the Flexpool discord here
Or the madMAx one here
I will post links when this comes out and will have step-by-step instructions.
Hardware requirements (recommended requirements are recommendations, you can lower plot times if you exceed them):
Operating system: Linux based OS
CPU: 4 core or better (minimum) most plotting is done by the GPU so CPU requirements are minimal. A PCIE 4.0 compatible CPU with 8 cores is recommended.
GPU: Nvidia 1060 GTX (minimum) Nvidia 3060ti (recommended)
RAM: 128G of DDR3 (minimum) 256G of DDR4 (recommended)
Memory:
1 512GB PCIE 3.0 SSD (minimum if using 256G of RAM) 1 512 GB PCIE 4.0 SSD (recommended if using 256G of RAM, if you have more RAM you can use a ramdisk instead).
1 512GB PCIE 3.0 SSD and 1 256GB PCIE 3.0 SSD (minimum if using 128G of RAM) 2 or more 512 GB PCIE 4.0 SSD’s (recommended, faster is better)
Hard Drives: 1 or more to transfer plots to (minimum) Multiple drives in RAID 0 or over the network via Plot Sink (recommended)
Note: Much of this information dates back to Sept, things may have changed since.
Edit: 64gb gpu compressed plotting is confirmed to be on the to do list.