Blog: What are all these X11, X13, X15

algorithms made of?

A lot of people have been asking us what these new algorithms are all about. These new and
profitable algorithms are the big shots right now in the GPU mining world and PiMP has been
rock solid in providing you with the tools you need to stay on the bleeding edge! Well, we have
picked apart whats going on under the hood with all this stuff and brought the information to you
in an easy to understand format!
These cryptocurrency algorithms have been created specifically for GPU mining and have been
able to provide a good profitability to the PiMP community after the rise of large ASICs for Scrypt.
It appears that each sub-algorithm result is then passed into the next sub-algorithm. We believe
that making an ASIC for this is would be made more difficult by the fact that the hardware would
need to have the logic gates for each algo on the entire chip, drastically increasing manufacturing
complexity. On the other hand, X11-X15 only uses 536mb ram (or around there) so that will
make up for some of the costs of the additional logic. Here are some of the algorithms we are
mining right now and what is under the hood!

X11 X12 X13 X14 X15 X17

blake blake blake blake blake blake

bmw bmw bmw bmw bmw bmw

groestl groestl groestl groestl groestl groestl

jh jh jh jh jh jh

keccak keccak keccak keccak keccak keccak

skein skein skein skein skein skein

luffa luffa luffa luffa luffa luffa

cubehas cubehas
cubehash cubehash cubehash cubehash
h h
 X11 X12 X13 X14 X15 X17

shavite shavite shavite shavite shavite shavite

simd simd simd simd simd simd

echo echo echo echo echo echo

  ocean? hamsi hamsi hamsi hamsi

    fugue fugue fugue fugue

      shabal shabal shabal

        whirlpool whirlpool

          loselose

          djb2

Credits to ugtarmas and ystarnaud from the PiMP team for reading all the whitepapers and
compiling this awesome list for us and explaining what it all means!
More information on X11 FPGA mining development was found here