Mining architectures

Filecoin allows anyone to setup a mining operation to participate in a global, distributed storage market.

This section provides examples for Filecoin Storage mining setups in the hope that they can help and guide other miners to plan and make the right choices when acquiring and setting up their mining infrastructure. Note that any storage mining setup must meet the minimal hardware requirements.

Protocol Labs example architecture

The following Lotus miner setup was published as part of the Guide to Filecoin Storage Mining (opens new window)blog post. A PDF is available for download here (opens new window):

Hardware unit	CPU model	GPU	RAM	Disk	Processes	Notes
Storage miner + Node	AMD Epyc 7402 (24 cores)	Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000	128-256GB	Unspecified	1x lotus 1x lotus-miner	The miner delegates sealing functions to the workers below.
PC1 workers	AMD Epyc 7F32 DP/UP (8 cores)	-	128-256GiB	6 x 1-2TiB SSD scratch disk	6x lotus-worker	Runs 6 Lotus seal workers in parallel for PreCommit1 phase only.
PC2, Commit workers	AMD Epyc 7402 (24 cores)	2 x Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000	256GiB	2-4TiB SSD scratch disk(s)	1x lotus-worker (PC2) 1x lotus-worker (Commit)	One workerdedicated to PreCommit2 and another to the Commit phase