Quick Start

There is always a start.
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The famous “Hello World” program, almost the first lesson for every programming learner in basically every language, originated from the C Programming Language book’s predecessor: A Tutorial Introduction to the Programming Language B published in 1973:

Problem Description

Problem Description

Koko loves to eat bananas. There are N piles of bananas, the i-th pile has piles[i] bananas. The guards have gone and will come back in H hours.

Koko can decide her bananas-per-hour eating speed of K. Each hour, she chooses some pile of bananas, and eats K bananas from that pile. If the pile has less than K bananas, she eats all of them instead, and won’t eat any more bananas during this hour. Koko likes to eat slowly, but still wants to finish eating all the bananas before the guards come back.

Return the minimum integer K such that she can eat all the bananas within H hours.

Introduction

We want to know if using FPGA/OpenCL and GPU/CUDA is a possible solution to accelerate blockchain applications (specifically the SHA-256 hashing algorithm during the bitcoin mining process) and we implemented the algorithm in different ways and compare the cost-benefit/performance with them. To do so we want to examine the hash algorithm with files and try to parallelize the implementation for acceleration.