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Gene Hoffman edited this page Jan 9, 2020 · 25 revisions

Alpha testnet Timelords

The fastest timelord we've see so far is our own twin Intel machines running Ubuntu on an Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2155 CPU @ 3.30GHz with 10 cores and 64 GB PC4-21300 DDR4-2666V-R REGISTERED ECC. These machines get about 130,000 ips (iterations per second.)

It looks like it takes two full cores (usually looks like 4 in the OS) to both run the squarings and run the proofs and it takes about 8GB of RAM per VDF - though that may now be down to 6GB or even 4GB with some changes implemented right at testnet launch.

Chia Network has four timelords running:

  • Two twins are each a timelord with two VDF's each

  • Older large instance with 21 cores (42 reported) that has 6 VDF's running on it

    • Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-L8867 @ 2.13GHz
    • 63G RAM
    • ~110,000 ips
    • It tends to garbage collect if the twins both choose the same possible proofs of space to run a VDF on

  • Expiremental cluster timelord

    • AWS t3small as timelord
    • 3 VDFs on 3 AWS c5n.xlarge instances
    • [Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8124M(https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_platinum/8124m) CPU @ 3.00GHz
    • 10 GB RAM
    • ~110,000 ips
    • Still optimizing this

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