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Hector Sanjuan fe52c47570 Docs review and re-organization 
This:

* Re-organizes the docs into sections that align with what docs.filecoin.io becoming:
  * An installation section
  * A "getting started" section (lotus client focused)
  * A "storing" section (lotus client focused)
  * A "mining" section (miner focused)
  * A "build" section (developer focused)
  * An legacy "architecture" section is left in the last place.

A few high-value documentation pages have been reviewed and updated with the latest recommendations:

* Installation section and lotus setup
* Miner setup
* etc.
...

Other pages have been correctly merged into the new relevant sections. Some pages have not been touched. The filesystem layout of the documentation has been changed into folders corresponding to the sections (as requested by @cw). Some pages that were not linked at all and/or where hidden, have been moved to "unclassified".

This should make the porting of the Lotus documentation to docs.filecoin.io much easier, while ensuring it is more up to date than it was before.

For the moment, this breaks most links as link-aliasing is not supported in lotus-docs.
2020-09-03 16:35:16 +02:00

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Installation

Lotus can be installed in Linux and MacOS machines by building it from source. Windows is not supported yet.

This section contains guides to install Lotus in the supported platforms.

Lotus is made of 3 binaries:

These applications are written in Go, but also import several Rust libraries. Lotus does not distribute pre-compiled builds.

Hardware requirements

For client nodes

  • 8GiB of RAM
  • Recommended for syncing speed: CPU with support for Intel SHA Extensions (AMD since Zen microarchitecture, Intel since Ice Lake).
  • Recommended for speed: SSD hard drive (the bigger the better)

For miners

The following correspond to the latest testing configuration:

  • 2 TB of hard drive space
  • 8 core CPU
  • 128 GiB of RAM with 256 GiB of NVMe SSD storage for swap (or simply, more RAM).
  • Recommended for speed: CPU with support for Intel SHA Extensions (AMD since Zen microarchitecture, Intel since Ice Lake).
  • GPU for block mining. The following have been confirmed to be fast enough:
  • GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
  • GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
  • GeForce RTX 2080
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • GeForce GTX 1080
  • GeForce GTX 1060