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July 05, 2013, 12:43:23 AM
Last edit: July 05, 2013, 12:53:54 AM by coinprize
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Anyone tried stacking a bunch of respberry pi or beagleboard for mining? I mean over 20 boards to mine, not just a couple or so. Is that feasible?

What i'm thinking is to modify the minging loop so that each of the 20 pi board mines a partition of entire nounce [0, 2^32] in PARALLEL:

1. pi 1 mine [0,2^32/20]
2. pi 2 mine [2^32/20, 2*2^32/20]
3. pi 2 mine [2*2^32/20, 3*2^32/20]
... ...

That will make it super fast I guess.

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July 05, 2013, 12:51:41 AM
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It would be a neat project and look cool but it would never be profitable.



http://www.zdnet.com/build-your-own-supercomputer-out-of-raspberry-pi-boards-7000015831/

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July 05, 2013, 12:55:10 AM
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It would be a neat project and look cool but it would never be profitable.



http://www.zdnet.com/build-your-own-supercomputer-out-of-raspberry-pi-boards-7000015831/

That's not parallel mining, that's competition mining.

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July 05, 2013, 01:00:16 AM
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while I know nothing about how that would actually work, i still dont think it would make it worth while.

Assuming 20 pi's would give you a result 20x faster, 20x the mining power of a single pi isnt much... Let me see if I can find stats on it...

EDIT: looks like the rpi can mine at less than 200kh/s. So 200kh/s x 20 is 4MH/s at max. Not exactly worth it considering a single Block Erupter USB miner can mine at 330+MH/s and uses the same power as a single rpi.

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