[hackerspaces] bitcoin

[Jamie Schwettmann]

Currently, educational use of GPGPUs ranges from bioinformatics simulation
to cryptographic research, to high energy physics data analysis, to media
processing, visualization and rendering.  Larger institutions that have
these mini-supercomputers in their student labs are often using them for
code prototyping prior to spending their precious compute-time budget at the
larger supercomputer clusters, since the software environment and
performance are considerably comparable.

Bitcoin mining probably still falls under the educational umbrella, if
framed correctly, and the <200W total power draw for a cluster with 6 CPUs
and 6 GPGPUs doesn't hurt either. :)

- Jamie


On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Petr Baudis <pasky at ucw.cz> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 08:54:09AM -0700, Jamie Schwettmann wrote:
> > I'm involved in a project that builds open-source mini supercomputers
> that
> > fit in a suitcase.  With GPGPUs.  For under $5000, and intended for
> > educational use, but actually perfect for bitcoin mining... especially if
> we
> > pool a bunch of them on our favorite darknet...
>
> Can you elaborate on the educational uses intended for the GPGPUs? Is it
> just to teach people about programming GPGPUs or is there more to it?
> I'm curious...
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>                                Petr "Pasky" Baudis
> UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
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