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Message 1540105 - Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 0:39:07 UTC

With all the bitcoin Mining going on and the diminishing profitability of the bitcoin mining, would an ASIC computer running 6TH/S be able to perform calculations for SETI@home? I don't know that much about it and just wondering if the ASIC computers would be useful for distributed computing when bitcoins are gone and the ASIC is just sitting in the corner?
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Message 1540118 - Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 4:31:12 UTC

I'm not sure the ASICs could be repurposed in that way. See ASIC for seti.
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Message 1540199 - Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 7:45:34 UTC - in response to Message 1540118.  
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I'm not sure the ASICs could be repurposed in that way. See ASIC for seti.

Given the meaning -- Application-Specific Integrated Circuit -- I'm sure they can't be re-purposed. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) maybe, but they'd be devilishly hard to programme for SETI.
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Message 1540458 - Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 18:56:04 UTC - in response to Message 1540199.  

I'm not sure the ASICs could be repurposed in that way. See ASIC for seti.

Given the meaning -- Application-Specific Integrated Circuit -- I'm sure they can't be re-purposed. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) maybe, but they'd be devilishly hard to programme for SETI.

Programmable ASICs are not as rigid as people often think, but they are still limited.
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Message 1540667 - Posted: 13 Jul 2014, 3:44:24 UTC

There was also this message thread.
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Message 1540797 - Posted: 13 Jul 2014, 10:28:40 UTC

I wrote this in another forum/thread.

http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/forum_thread.php?id=276&postid=1818#1818
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