Thank you for the response!

I was definitely expecting to lose money.  I have a ton of AWS credit and wanted to see how many pennies on the dollar I could get with this project.

Do you (or have you heard) a back of the envelope guess at the rate for doing this with a GPU in this fashion?  Ten cents on the dollar? Worse?

Hi folks!

I just got bfgminer working on a RHEL 7 GPU instance (g2.2xlarge) in AWS.  I have detailed the steps I followed in this blog post:

http://josephecombs.tumblr.com/post/102730864351/how-to-mine-bitcoin-on-aws

I have two main questions:

1.) How (or, after what period of time) can I confirm that the work being done on my instance is being logged to my bitminter username (jcombs)

2.) the "top" command in linux is saying that bfgminer is using 100% CPU.  The monitoring tab in the EC2 dashboard says that CPU utilization is at 12%.  I assume this is because bfgminer is using 1/8 available cores. This brings me to a few questions:

a.) How can I be sure that bfgminer is actually using the GPU and not just a cpu core?
b.) How can I tell bfgminer to use all available cores on the CPU?

Thank you for reading!