XPM on Amazon EC2

[qiuness]

I was wondering if it is still worth using EC2 with Primecoin at the given difficulty.

[TheSpiral]

As has been stated probably a thousand times by now, it's luck.
If you want more chances in a game of luck, get more chances in a game of luck.

[qiuness]

what is the primespersec on 1 EC2 instance if you know by any chance? i want to compare it to a desktop CPU

[TheSpiral]

what is the primespersec on 1 EC2 instance if you know by any chance? i want to compare it to a desktop CPU

Which? There's not "1" EC2.
The free one is ~40-50. The paid ones are higher, obviously.

[Kyune]

seems to settle around 2000-2100 PPS on a 4 core, "8 ECU", m1.xlarge using mikaelh hp4.

hp5 is now available, but I don't have data on that.

[qiuness]

so if a 3770k get's primespersec 6300 i`m assuming that is 6300pps, right?

[AstroKev]

m3.2xlarge --

~/primecoin-0.1.1-hp4/src$ ./primecoind getmininginfo
{
    "blocks" : 63588,
    "currentblocksize" : 1000,
    "currentblocktx" : 0,
    "errors" : "",
    "generate" : true,
    "genproclimit" : -1,
    "primespersec" : 3899,
    "pooledtx" : 0,
    "testnet" : false
}


definitely not worth it.

[fenican]

As a general rule, something might be profitable for a few days on EC2.  That was the case with YAC in the initial days.

After that, people are going to spin up 10,000 instances and drive up the difficulty to the point where it is no longer viable