Building a 600 CORES - Supercomputer to mine VeriumReserve

[jacko0088]

This is a very interesting project.
It inspired me to also investigate in this area too.
So I have bought the cluster version of the your boards which is available now: Odroid-MC1

Me too, I plan to buy MC1 to soon. But my curiousity is jacko0088 mentioned he uses hc1, I noticed that hc1 is cheaper but without display output, then how to configure it? Any resources on net about this issue?

You go blind with linux console over SSH

[civilufo]

This is a very interesting project.
It inspired me to also investigate in this area too.
So I have bought the cluster version of the your boards which is available now: Odroid-MC1

Me too, I plan to buy MC1 to soon. But my curiousity is jacko0088 mentioned he uses hc1, I noticed that hc1 is cheaper but without display output, then how to configure it? Any resources on net about this issue?

You go blind with linux console over SSH

     Oops... Thx... BTW, how's the performance so far? Any unexpected issue?

[znoxx]

@jacko0088, first of all, thanks for inspiration you give to people.

As far as I understand, you are having issues with PSU's, and I think I know the solution.

I was (and I still) playing with SBC clusters and noticed with even powerful PSU may fail, if you will power up e.g. 5 units simultaneously.
The solution was an arduino-like board with some mosfets, which powered devices one-by-one with some delay.
After this power issues are gone and I could utilize some non-atx psu to play with cluster.

May be it can be useful for you.

[jacko0088]

@jacko0088, first of all, thanks for inspiration you give to people.

As far as I understand, you are having issues with PSU's, and I think I know the solution.

I was (and I still) playing with SBC clusters and noticed with even powerful PSU may fail, if you will power up e.g. 5 units simultaneously.
The solution was an arduino-like board with some mosfets, which powered devices one-by-one with some delay.
After this power issues are gone and I could utilize some non-atx psu to play with cluster.

May be it can be useful for you.

Uhm..can you explain a bit better?
Now i have a 5V 40Amps powering up 10 SBC--> works flawlessly! I mean, all up and running from a month. Nothing goes down.

So i'm waiting for the 5V 100Amps to be delivered, so i can safely power up 20 SBC's in a row

ATM, all stuck by italian customs.. so I have to wait a bit..

[s1gs3gv]

Thanks for sharing info about your cool project.

[znoxx]

Uhm..can you explain a bit better?

Imagine a bunch of SBC's connected to one PSU. When you power them all "at once" and each unit starts to do something - mining, whatever - it impacts psu.
Even if psu is powerfull, it may not survive start current for several SBC's simultaineously.
What I have done - I made a simple arduino-based circut, which powers up units not at once, but one-by-one e.g. with 30 seconds delay.
This helps PSU to "survive" start current of devices - load is increased smoothly and PSU works.
I used MeanWell PSU's to power 5 Orange Pi's
Result - one of five devices may not start.
When I added "delayed start" - PSU suffered much less, and everything started to work correctly.

[jacko0088]

Uhm..can you explain a bit better?

Imagine a bunch of SBC's connected to one PSU. When you power them all "at once" and each unit starts to do something - mining, whatever - it impacts psu.
Even if psu is powerfull, it may not survive start current for several SBC's simultaineously.
What I have done - I made a simple arduino-based circut, which powers up units not at once, but one-by-one e.g. with 30 seconds delay.
This helps PSU to "survive" start current of devices - load is increased smoothly and PSU works.
I used MeanWell PSU's to power 5 Orange Pi's
Result - one of five devices may not start.
When I added "delayed start" - PSU suffered much less, and everything started to work correctly.

mmh..cool! Will take surely a look 

[jacko0088]

Okay Sally is slowly booting up. Almost 40 of 75 are working. Had to finish up wiring, but I'm confident for tonight 

[jeyjey]

Great! We all are waiting for the results. But why did you coose this altcoin? Is its mining optimized for this kind of CPU?

[jacko0088]

Great! We all are waiting for the results. But why did you coose this altcoin? Is its mining optimized for this kind of CPU?

Because it's a massive project, and peoples still doesn't know! So there's a HUGE potential.

Binary chain uber alles! 

[jacko0088]

It's not rentable, but it shows that sally is up and running! Finally! (and it's doing solo mining)

https://www.miningrigrentals.com/rigs/51397

[greyday]

So exciting to see her up and running!

[cryptovagas]

It's not rentable, but it shows that sally is up and running! Finally! (and it's doing solo mining)

https://www.miningrigrentals.com/rigs/51397

finally, but hashes seems to not in full power mode, is it intentional or not yet optimized?

[Marvell2]

So exciting to see her up and running!

how much does it make a day ?

[Miningtry]

Wish you best luck. I like when people thinking out of box.

[jacko0088]

It's not rentable, but it shows that sally is up and running! Finally! (and it's doing solo mining)

https://www.miningrigrentals.com/rigs/51397

finally, but hashes seems to not in full power mode, is it intentional or not yet optimized?

not yet optimized 

[snowyNNN]

Can we get pictures please.

[jacko0088]

Can we get pictures please.

[RainGarlicoin]

Can we get pictures please.

http://i66.tinypic.com/1qib20.jpg

@Jack So I saw Sally is posted for rental on https://www.miningrigrentals.com/rigs/51397/ and was wondering if it was in fact ready for rental for the listed price? If so, I was planning on renting it out for use of some altcoins on N-Scrypt for a few hours. Or does it only mine VeriumReserve?

[jacko0088]

Can we get pictures please.

@Jack So I saw Sally is posted for rental on https://www.miningrigrentals.com/rigs/51397/ and was wondering if it was in fact ready for rental for the listed price? If so, I was planning on renting it out for use of some altcoins on N-Scrypt for a few hours. Or does it only mine VeriumReserve?

Actually "it should". And now it's up with my custom miner/kernel dedicated to vrm. So now it mines just vrm.
Price is setted high because i prefer none rent this until i start getting my first solo blocks (but yeah, if you rent it at this price for vrm, it switches for vrm)