Igneum proving v0 on a Windows 11 PC with an NVIDIA card (RTX 5090), through WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04.
1. Double-click SETUP-PROVER.bat. First run: it enables WSL2 and installs Ubuntu 24.04 (about 400 MB), then asks you to REBOOT.
2. After the reboot Ubuntu opens once and asks for a username and password (any, e.g. igneum). Close it. Double-click SETUP-PROVER.bat again:
it installs the CUDA toolkit for WSL (about 3 GB), Rust (about 500 MB), sp1up and the SP1 toolchain (about 300 MB download, 1 GB on disk), then pre-builds the prover.
Downloads in total: about 4 to 5 GB (approximate). Time: 15 to 40 minutes depending on the connection and the CPU (approximate). The NVIDIA driver is NOT installed inside Ubuntu: Windows provides it. Docker is not needed (SP1 v6 runs a native sp1-gpu-server, which the SDK downloads on first use, about 134 MB).
3. PAUSE MINING (Ctrl+C in the START-MINING window). The prover needs the whole GPU (24 GB of VRAM or more) and most of the RAM.
4. Double-click PROVE-BLOCK.bat. It proves the fixture block on the GPU (execute, core proof, compressed proof, each verified), then a core proof on the CPU for comparison, prints the RESULT lines and uploads the log to the Igneum log intake (run_id prove-<PC name>-<stamp>).
First run: 10 to 30 minutes of compiling before the first proof (approximate). The proof itself: seconds to a few minutes on the GPU, minutes to tens of minutes on the CPU (approximate, that is what this run measures).
5. Resume mining afterwards. Results also land next to this file in results/*.json. Each line marked RESULT in the log is a number for docs/bench-log.md.
Everything version-specific (CUDA 12.8 package name, SP1 v6.8.1, the server asset name) was read from the SP1 and NVIDIA documentation on 3 October 2026 and is approximate from that date on.
