This is a multi-threaded Cell BE optimized miner for Litecoin, fork of Jeff Garzik's reference cpuminer.

Miner threads are first allocated to the available SPU cores (typically 6). The remaining threads are allocated to PPU. There will be usually 8 threads total on PS3: 6 SPU threads and 2 PPU threads.

The mining performance comparison table can be found at: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/wiki/Mining-hardware-comparison

License: GPLv2. See COPYING for details.

Dependencies: libcurl http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/ jansson http://www.digip.org/jansson/ (jansson is included in-tree)

Basic *nix build instructions: ./autogen.sh # only needed if building from git repo CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=cell -fstrict-aliasing" ./configure make

Usage instructions: Run "minerd --help" to see options.