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Title: AMI (amazon machine instance) miner? Post by: marcus_of_augustus on February 15, 2011, 12:50:33 AM Anyone had a go at this?
The underlying hardware available is GPU clusters (4gpu expandable to 8 per cluster): 22 GB of memory 33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture) 2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs 1690 GB of instance storage 64-bit platform I/O Performance: Very High (10 Gigabit Ethernet) $2.10 per hour of each running "instance". Seems like a bit of overhead in building the AMI to begin with ... and the whole thing OS, code will be running as a java virtual machine :( So don't know how much access to low-level system functions, etc. And how good are the Nvidia Tesla GPUs at hashing anyway? Though if you did get a AMI built you could then sell it to others who want to just push the button and go. Title: Re: AMI (amazon machine instance) miner? Post by: lachesis on February 15, 2011, 12:53:51 AM Just tested this out today. I got about 77MHPS / Tesla core using an OpenCL miner, which is far too low to justify running the box. I didn't test with Puddingpop's CUDA miner, though.
Title: Re: AMI (amazon machine instance) miner? Post by: marcus_of_augustus on February 15, 2011, 12:59:19 AM lachesis: how serendipitous.
So that's 4x77Mhash/s , i.e. 308 Mhash/s for the 4gpu AMI cluster? Title: Re: AMI (amazon machine instance) miner? Post by: burtyb on February 15, 2011, 08:10:05 PM and the whole thing OS, code will be running as a java virtual machine :( AWS Compute and GPU instances use HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) - the cli tools are Java (but you don't have to use those). BB Title: Re: AMI (amazon machine instance) miner? Post by: murasha on February 15, 2011, 08:42:22 PM oh I am trying to lauch both JAVA and Python miners for a whole day and cant bring them to work.
lachesis, can you make please a complete guide? Title: Re: AMI (amazon machine instance) miner? Post by: lachesis on February 16, 2011, 03:37:19 AM lachesis, can you make please a complete guide? Sorry, I don't really have time for that. My hint would be to use a better AMI than the default, like the starcluster gpu one (ami-12b6477b), found here: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/starcluster/2010-December/000572.html. However, I don't think it's worth it. First of all, there are only 2 GPUs as far as I can tell. Didn't see an option for a 4x GPU cluster. Furthermore, you'd need something like 1600 MHPS to justify the $2.10 cost / hour. Title: Re: AMI (amazon machine instance) miner? Post by: jafo on February 16, 2011, 04:22:33 AM However, I don't think it's worth it. First of all, there are only 2 GPUs as far as I can tell. Didn't see an option for a 4x GPU cluster. Furthermore, you'd need something like 1600 MHPS to justify the $2.10 cost / hour. I also came to the same conclusion, getting around 70Mhash/sec. The route I took was rather crazy, because I had a tool-chain for Ubuntu Maverick, but the Maverick AMI didn't support the GPU machines, so I went with the CentOS AMI but I couldn't get the tools to build under CentOS. So I built a Maverick chroot, which I copied over to the GPU machine running CentOS and ran the miner from that. I also found there were 2 GPUs, it wasn't able to run with 4, although the specs for the cards used there seemed to imply that there were 2 GPUs per card, I didn't find that that was the case, at least from what was visible to me. |