Anyone here still mining in the cluster with some results ?
I started today with an old server (2x Xeon L5640) and so far I have found 1 block, so in general it works, but if it's consistent/effective I don't know yet.
Thanks for sharing, with this old server what are your hash rate ?
If I understood things right from people writing about the solo-cluster mining (and the cluster-page itself) then the hash rate in this case is irrelevant; the only thing that counts is the number of instances you are running.
So since I have 24 virtual cores I'm running 24 instances on there; I think the hashrate of each thread is maybe 20 H/s or something like that.
Alot of things have changed on the cluster since I 1st made it.
If I was you I would look to be putting instances of 200+ on the cluster (I have tested this and works well).
I cant say now if lower instances are better. More instances will give you a better chance but you still need hash power to find a block. I would never tell someone with a old laptop core duo doing 20hs to mine the cluster.
You still have to remember that there is only 720 blocks a day and there is alot of miners mining.
You can see here a miner
https://roi-coin-blockexplorer.roi-coin.com/address/RDUcvrHrKBu4wVMSntYvmAbjxTdnBbft1z who seems to mine the cluster alot. I dont know the hash rate or what he/she is mining with or how the miner has it set up. It may be one instance it may be more.
As I have said befor I have not had the time to test the output of the cluster in terms of instances vs 1 instance with speed.
If you had 1KH I would say 4 instances depending on the rest of your hardware.
I my self have tested like this and got 2 blocks in a hour or so and then stopped because I need to use my server for other things at the min I have alot of work on and lots of projects to do GUI for the cluster being one of them all going well.
Again the cluster is ment for miners who like to play the Crypto Lotto. Dont mine the cluster if you wish to have a stream of coins day to day because there is alot of miners on roi and only 720 blocks a day.
If there is 1500 miners and each one gets a advrage of 30 shares a block thats 30 in 45000 chance of winning. Then if we add instances in to the math it gets silly say a adv of 3 instances each thats 90 in 135000 chance of getting the winning nounce.
Looking at that you may understand why I have made the cluster to help solo miners because the odds of finding a block are massive. But by no means is my math 100% its just off the top of my head going on the things I know without trolling though a mass of api stats.
One thing I can say is when mining the cluster use a diff address on each instance (on the same computer) this helps to stop dupe shares. You sould do this on pools too.
