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Title: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: Etherion on October 12, 2019, 03:51:16 PM With GPU's mining dieing out fast now I wondered what other use cases the device has.
Here are 6 that came to mind 1. Gaming. Local and streaming, www.vectordash.com 2. Rendering. Content creations. Images, Movies (Blender) www.golem.network/rendering/ 3. Crypto Mining. Ect... 4. Machine Learning. www.vast.ai 5. Encryptions. Password cracking 6. Data processing 7. Heating while altruistic uses, fold@home and SETI@home Any thing I missed? Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: CjMapope on October 12, 2019, 11:06:04 PM I live in the FAR North of Canada
This winter i will put a rig in my basement for heating and one in the living room corner maybe The heat from the gpus will mitigate around 50% of the electricity cost of running the 2 rigs and who knows maybe the shitcoins they mine will be worth something one day too :P Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: adaseb on October 13, 2019, 02:43:12 AM The 7 points you guys have mentioned is probably it. The only other one I can think of is that the GPU usually has copper heatsinks and those might fetch a little at the scrap yards (no idea what the scrap rate for copper is at the moment however) and the fans that are attached might be used for other GPUs.
I had a few GPUs die on me which were aftermarket GPUs which had great heatsinks+fans and I just retrofitted those to my loud reference type of GPUs and they ran cooler. We are actually lucky because if an ASIC becomes obsolete its basically a door-stop. Maybe the fans and PSU enclosed have some value but everything else is pretty much useless. Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: nsummy on October 13, 2019, 03:38:45 AM Proof that even in this bear market people will buy accounts ;D
Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: ggbtctalk000 on October 13, 2019, 05:00:42 AM i also posted similar post, although specifically tailored for AI ML usage.
Jbitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5192465.new#new. I am all ears as I have 20+ GPU sitting around. Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: Etherion on October 13, 2019, 05:23:45 AM i also posted similar post, although specifically tailored for AI ML usage. Jbitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5192465.new#new. I am all ears as I have 20+ GPU sitting around. I have taken a look at both vectordash and vast.ai but so for both have turned out a little disappoing. The cost of upgrading the host to meet the requirements outweigh any potential income. Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: Etherion on October 13, 2019, 05:27:12 AM Golem is something I'm going to check out next. They have a gpu node now but it's dedicated on Ubuntu
Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: Etherion on October 13, 2019, 01:14:38 PM I have updated my post with 3 options that I have tested. All 3 needs the gpu to be on a 4x or 8x(vectordash) slot with one dedicated cpu phiscal core and matching system ram to gpu ram.
Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: jmigdlc99 on October 13, 2019, 02:26:29 PM Any thing I missed? You can help cure cancer. For real, you can help scientists find a cure to life threatening diseases by joining folding@home endeavours. It's called folding i think because it simulates protein "folding" simulations that have multiple possible outcomes. Basically you lend your GPU to help find a cure to many diseases. Check them out: https://foldingathome.org/ Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: Etherion on October 13, 2019, 04:32:11 PM yes. found fold@home and also SETI@home for the more Alteristic of us.
Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: adaseb on October 13, 2019, 06:11:44 PM Any thing I missed? You can help cure cancer. For real, you can help scientists find a cure to life threatening diseases by joining folding@home endeavours. It's called folding i think because it simulates protein "folding" simulations that have multiple possible outcomes. Basically you lend your GPU to help find a cure to many diseases. Check them out: https://foldingathome.org/ Yes but usually miners are in it for the profits. And since they would be folding at a loss since they need to pay for the electricity most miners wouldn't use their GPUs for Folding. Even if the power was free, pretty sure most miners wouldn't Fold. I think they have some incentive but its not material things, I think its more for internet karma and that's it. There was some coin if I recall which instead of hashing POW it did some type of "Folding" but I forget what it was called. However since the value of the coin was low, nobody wanted to mine it. It was a good idea though. Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: Q_R_V on October 13, 2019, 07:25:58 PM [...] There was some coin if I recall which instead of hashing POW it did some type of "Folding" but I forget what it was called. However since the value of the coin was low, nobody wanted to mine it. It was a good idea though. https://banano.cc/ Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: Etherion on October 13, 2019, 08:39:44 PM [...] There was some coin if I recall which instead of hashing POW it did some type of "Folding" but I forget what it was called. However since the value of the coin was low, nobody wanted to mine it. It was a good idea though. https://banano.cc/ that looks legit.... Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: thefix on October 14, 2019, 03:44:25 PM [...] There was some coin if I recall which instead of hashing POW it did some type of "Folding" but I forget what it was called. However since the value of the coin was low, nobody wanted to mine it. It was a good idea though. https://banano.cc/ that looks legit.... Banano actually is legit but its just a clone of Nano with a kind of a Joke/Meme theme poking fun at some of the past scams in crypto. If you scroll down on the banano site you will see it says "Inspired by the industry's least trusted masterminds" which is pretty funny to read all the people they list. Anyways you can mine/earn Banano by folding for science, so at least you are doing some good if the project goes away. Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: ggbtctalk000 on October 14, 2019, 07:46:21 PM i also posted similar post, although specifically tailored for AI ML usage. Jbitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5192465.new#new. I am all ears as I have 20+ GPU sitting around. I have taken a look at both vectordash and vast.ai but so for both have turned out a little disappoing. The cost of upgrading the host to meet the requirements outweigh any potential income. yES, I am eyeing for these, obbiously they are not popular and established business. But I am going to try anyways. What MB u got? I got H81 BTC PRO, it is piece of crap motherboard, does not boot reliably without user intervention but I got stock with it. Its spec says socket 1150 which supports up to possibly 4th gen core i3/5/7. Those seems to support AVX2 instruction. https://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/h81%20pro%20btc/ https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/77769/intel-core-i3-4330-processor-4m-cache-3-50-ghz.html Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: Etherion on October 14, 2019, 07:55:26 PM Vectordash needs x8 PCie 3 with 2 cores per GPU and lots of system ram. Pref 250gb fast NVME drive. System needs to be online 24/7. I have had a 1080ti and 1070 on a I7 7700 system with a 256Gb NVME drive but after 2 weeks got zero payment. Also no one rented the VMs so Im not so sure they have any users. Vast.ai needs little less. X4 PCIE and one core per gpu and 30gb per gpu. I have a 4x1080ti system on a MSI z270 Carbon Pro so mine is at x4 PCIE. BUt its been a few weeks now and my system still has not been verified. Also I find there docs very lacking and almost no help on there tech discord. Im thinking of putting a dedicated golem.network host online.
Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: thefix on October 15, 2019, 05:35:50 PM Vectordash needs x8 PCie 3 with 2 cores per GPU and lots of system ram. Pref 250gb fast NVME drive. System needs to be online 24/7. I have had a 1080ti and 1070 on a I7 7700 system with a 256Gb NVME drive but after 2 weeks got zero payment. Also no one rented the VMs so Im not so sure they have any users. Vast.ai needs little less. X4 PCIE and one core per gpu and 30gb per gpu. I have a 4x1080ti system on a MSI z270 Carbon Pro so mine is at x4 PCIE. BUt its been a few weeks now and my system still has not been verified. Also I find there docs very lacking and almost no help on there tech discord. Im thinking of putting a dedicated golem.network host online. The 15 Mbit/s download (per GPU) and 40 Mbit/s upload (per GPU) is a limiting factor for me although this may not be an issue for some people. Most people with mining rigs will have to upgrade their motherboard and cpu in order to make this work for them. From what you are saying it sounds like rentals could be very sporadic and your system would just sit idle most of the time until someone rents it. Title: Re: What other uses does GPU have? Post by: Etherion on October 15, 2019, 06:02:57 PM Yes. Utilization is low. But vectordash pays for availability and vast.ai you can set a low priority mining job.
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