Mining on the Amazon EC2

[marinello12]

Is any ne using Amazon EC2 to mine bitcoin? I was thinking about doing it and wondered how many hashes I would get a second using this setup and which minier I could use..any help would be appreciated

AMAZON EC2 GLUSTER GPU SPEC:

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)
API name: cg1.4xlarge

[kjj]

Won't be worth it.

M2050 is worth about 75 to 100 Mhash/sec.
The Xeons are worth maybe 20 more.

[pride]

google is your friend here.
First off, Nvidia cards do notoriously poorly with hashing. - heres why https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU_mines_faster_than_a_CPU#Why_are_AMD_GPUs_faster_than_Nvidia_GPUs?

Secondarily, professional cards tend to do worse then consumer hardware - check here for comparisons between cards - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

There are articles from a few months back talking about how poorly Cluster compute units do on EC2.

I thought the same thing as I was getting into bitcoins....no pez

[hugolp]

Nvidia, there is your answer.

[Bitonetta]

Is any ne using Amazon EC2 to mine bitcoin? I was thinking about doing it and wondered how many hashes I would get a second using this setup and which minier I could use..any help would be appreciated

AMAZON EC2 GLUSTER GPU SPEC:

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)
API name: cg1.4xlarge

There are better ways to relieve your back problems.

I'm assuming the issue is because you are carrying that heavy wallet around with you all the time and tring to find ways to lighten the load.   

[Rob P.]

This was covered, in depth, in an article here:  http://glennfrancismurray.com/cost-defective-mining-with-gpu-clusters-amazo

If you wish to lose money doing it, it's a great way to spend your time.

[Freakin]

no longer profitable. 

[Adamlm]

no longer profitable. 

But you can try it for free mining CPU coins:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50708.0

[byronbb]

I definitely see connections to bitcoin clients running on the Amazon cloud but I doubt they are mining.

[sadpandatech]

I definitely see connections to bitcoin clients running on the Amazon cloud but I doubt they are mining.

  Aye, some of those may be pool nodes as well. I know of atleast one that is running a pool and nodes on EC2.

[nibor]

Am running the process that update bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk on ec2. You will see that I expect.