Access To a Supercomputer

[Uncurlhalo]

So through my university I have access to a super computer. Rather than describe it's specs I will link you the university site with information about it. The university actually has multiple super computers but the one I am interested is the "Athena" http://www.arc.vt.edu/resources/index.php. Would it in any way be possible to set up mining on this system?

To run jobs they use a queuing system where you submit a script to be executed with all necessary information pertaining to modules need, nodes needed, cores needed, etc. Anyone with thoughts on the possibility of this? I believe the only obstacle to this working is that the super computers are most likely isolated from the internet, but I'm not sure of that.

I thought that since I have access to such a thing why not try to use it for a little while. There is a time limit on jobs and they will probably wonder whats up if I repeatedly ask for 300 hour jobs using all available nodes but a one off thing might be fun just to see the speed. It's not full of AMD GPU's but it does have 32 Tesla S2050's and 42 8-Core AMD Opertron 6100's so it could have some power.

[Uncurlhalo]

I just did some more math and it looks like this thing would only put out about 10 gigahashses/sec. Which is disappointing. But not unsurprising. Oh well. I probably won't give mining on it a go. Maybe if I got my hands on a Cray. That would be fun.

[beekeeper]

I just did some more math and it looks like this thing would only put out about 10 gigahashses/sec. Which is disappointing. But not unsurprising. Oh well. I probably won't give mining on it a go. Maybe if I got my hands on a Cray. That would be fun.

When the hell you will learn that BTC equipment is 1 vs 1 int32 calculations with top10 supercomputers?

[hamdi]

run it as long as needed to buy a JALAPENO

[ATC777]

Looks like almost everyone is going to be buying Jalepenos, and mining difficulty is going to get high... Only one thing left to do: buy not 1 but 5 Mini Rig 'SC's @ $30k a piece... 

[noncecents]

I just did some more math and it looks like this thing would only put out about 10 gigahashses/sec. Which is disappointing. But not unsurprising. Oh well. I probably won't give mining on it a go. Maybe if I got my hands on a Cray. That would be fun.

When the hell you will learn that BTC equipment is 1 vs 1 int32 calculations with top10 supercomputers?

Cray supercomputer has about the same processing power as an iPhone 5.

Also, it was not designed for math operations it was designed for list processing.

It is essentially a million dollar abacus.