Estimating the Mining Capabilities of University Network?

[jeffthebaker]

Hey everyone, my school is offering an "innovation challenge" that brings new initiatives to the school that brings in more $$/helps costs. Every summer and winter break, only a fraction of the network's bandwidth and computing power is ever used, meaning the school is paying for a lot of network and hardware to just sit. I'd like to propose the network installs mining software that mines BTC, LTC, and ETH at a safe % of CPU/GPU usage during the three month summer vacation and one month winter vacation. First of all, is it even a worthwhile proposition, after electricity costs? This is for a small school of 1400.

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[jeffthebaker]

Nevermind just saw this http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/02/24/mining-experiment-running-600-servers-year-yields-0-4-bitcoin

[fanatic26]

The biggest issue I see is that all coins that you can mine with a PC require a pretty good graphics card. Schools usually buy pretty barebones PCs with onboard graphics and a minimum of RAM. I am not sure you will be able to mine efficiently enough to cover the power costs of doing so.