PoC-Consortium/pocx v1.0.0-rc.13

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PoCX v1.0.0-rc.13

What's New

Plotter v2 — GPU-Fused Pipeline

• GPU-fused ring buffer pipeline: scatter, shuffle, and helix compression run entirely on GPU with a single ring buffer, minimizing host memory usage to ~1 GiB.
• Fused scatter+compress kernel produces scoop-major compressed output directly on GPU.
• Async dGPU pipeline: overlapped compute and DMA transfer on dedicated command queues (~15% wall-clock improvement on discrete GPUs over PCIe 3.0).
• Unified iGPU compatibility: auto-reduces kernel workgroup sizes for GPUs with limited memory allocation. Split ring buffer mode (2–4 sub-buffers) for iGPUs with max_alloc < 2 GiB.
• 3 GiB minimum GPU memory requirement (2 GiB ring + 1 GiB compressed buffer). Systems below this threshold can use CPU mode or plotter v1.

Fixes

• Removed process::exit from library crates for cleaner error propagation.
• Fixed macOS deprecation warning.

Pre-built binaries for all supported platforms.

Single Binary Design: OpenCL GPU acceleration is dynamically loaded at runtime.
The same binary works on systems with or without OpenCL installed.

Platforms:

• Linux x86_64 (glibc and musl builds)
• Linux ARM64 (glibc and musl builds)
• Android ARM64
• Windows x86_64
• macOS x86_64 / ARM64 (Apple Silicon)

Linux Compatibility Note:

• *-linux-musl builds are statically linked and work on any Linux distribution
• Use musl builds for maximum compatibility (Ubuntu 20.04+, Debian, Alpine, etc.)
• *-linux-gnu builds require glibc 2.39+ (Ubuntu 24.04+, Fedora 40+, Arch)

Binaries:

• pocx_miner - Mining client
• pocx_plotter - Plot file generator (GPU accelerated when OpenCL available)
• pocx_plotter_v2 - Next-gen plot file generator with GPU-fused pipeline
• pocx_verifier - Plot verification tool
• pocx_aggregator - Mining proxy/aggregator
• pocx_mockchain - Mock blockchain for testing

Configuration Files:

• miner_config.yaml - Miner configuration template
• aggregator_config.yaml - Aggregator configuration template
• mockchain_config.toml - Mockchain configuration template

Installation:

# Linux/macOS
tar -xzf pocx-*.tar.gz
./pocx_miner --version

# Windows
# Extract pocx-*.zip
.\pocx_miner.exe --version