Cortex Project Updates #19

Oscar W
Cortex Labs
Published in
3 min readJan 29, 2019

The Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year, is approaching, the weekly newspapers are full of cheerful atmosphere, all members of the Cortex team would like to send you all a sincere blessing to our beloving community friends, We wish you all a happy Chinese New Year!

Technical Updates

  1. Integrated OpenCL version of miner (an implementation of Cuckoo Cycle) in Cortex Miner and optimized its memory usage;
  2. Fixed a bug in the Cuda version of Cortex Miner on Nvidia 2080Ti, which improved mining efficiency;
  3. Investigated different chips and virtual machines to realize the implementation of CVM such as research on the model quantification scheme from Bitmain’s chip;
  4. Adjusted Cortex’s storage layer model synchronization mechanism, reconstructed the data reception waiting for logic, and corrected the logic of node mutual trust.

Community Updates

Livestream Continues

In last week’s live broadcast, we shared the Cortex team’s most recent development status as well as events that will be happening including CNY events and Valentine’s day event, stay tuned!

“Cortex Fan Carnival” Officially Launched

Share the story of “You and Cortex” in the community and win big prizes!

The submission must be at least 150 words and no more than 200 words. Please email your story to support@cortexlabs.ai before February 18th, 2019. We will conduct a poll in the community to select the best “You and Cortex” stories to win CTXC and Cortex merchandises. For those who have been selected into the poll will also receive rewards!

Cortex Romantic Valentine’s Day Event

On this romantic day, I hope that Cortex can share your happiness with you.

Rules: Send a photo of you with your other half with Cortex pose on February 14th, 2019 for a chance to receive 100 Cortex tokens

Holiday notice

Due to Chinese New Year, the Cortex team in China will be on holiday from February 4th to February 11th. As a result, the next bi-weekly report will be postponed to February 22nd, 2019.

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