A developer by the handle madMAx43vr has published to the public his own Chia plotter, which enables the creation of Chia plots far faster than the official tool.
According to tests on a dual-processor server with Intel Xeon E5-2650v2@2.60GHz, 256 GB RAM and three 800 GB SATA SSDs in RAID0, a Chia plot took 42 minutes. The plotter used only 16 CPU threads.
To achieve this result, the developer had to create a temporary RAM disk of 110 GB in RAM. This also reduced the total number of disk writes during plotting by about 75%.
According to the developer, plots created with his device pass correctness checks using the chiapos Proof of Space tool.
The YouTube channel Sloth Tech TV also tested the plotter and set a new record, creating a Chia plot in just 24 minutes. Enthusiasts ran it on a dual-processor server with Intel Xeon E5-2690v2, using 40 CPU threads and 64 GB of RAM.
For comparison, on a PC with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor, creating a single plot with the official plotter takes on average 284 minutes.
Going forward, madMAx43vr plans to add OpenCL support to move a larger portion of calculations from the CPU to the GPU. Potentially this will again drive up demand for GPUs, affecting their prices.
Earlier, Bram Cohen, the creator of the coin, to abandon unofficial pools. The Poolchia project launched its own protocol on May 30, with preregistration open. It will support trusted pools with low fees, between which users will be able to switch.
On June 10, Huobi Pool launched the beta version of a pool for mining Chia.
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