the most powerful mining rig ever contrived

[whenhowwho]

For a little less that 70k USD I have come up with a way to make a mining farm that has 15 machines and outputs a little over 1th/s. mmmmmmmmm godlike. Now all i need is money 

[mike678]

You would need 14.28 megahash per dollar. Unless you found some fancy alien technology I highly doubt it.

[Mousepotato]

For a little less that 70k USD I have come up with a way to make a mining farm that has 15 machines and outputs a little over 1th/s. mmmmmmmmm godlike.

...and it can almost run Crysis.

[Jack of Diamonds]

So each machine has to output 66ghash/s.

Even if you fit 8x6990 in a MSI BB Marshall motherboard with extension cables for a total of 16 gpu's and somehow get it to work, that's only 6400mhash/s per rig, or 96ghash in total.

It would also cost over $90,000 dollars.
A denser setup isn't possible at the moment; You can't get more than a theoretical 96,000mhash/s out of 15 machines with modern GPU's.

[cicada]

I think Vladmir is somewhere in that relative vicinity, and needs data centers with special power supply just to get enough power to his rigs.  That'd could easily eat your $70k right there.

[edit] To be fair, he didn't specify GPUs exactly, just machines.  Perhaps he's found the magical fountain of cheap FPGAs? 

[whenhowwho]

lol my laptop only puts out 162 mh/s and I can run any flavor of crysis.


and yep after looking over my specs again you are right I had it figured without an extra zero so 15 boxes would yield  103,608 mh/s

so for less that 1 mil i could build a system that put out 1th/s and it would pay for itself in 3 months taking into account difficulty and power costs

[mike678]

[edit] To be fair, he didn't specify GPUs exactly, just machines.  Perhaps he's found the magical fountain of cheap FPGAs? 

That's exactly why I said this

Unless you found some fancy alien technology I highly doubt it.

[cicada]

so for less that 1 mil i could build a system that put out 1th/s

I find your post entertaining! Too bad I just exchanged all my BTC

[SgtSpike]

So do it!

[whenhowwho]

im working on it. I think I should take a few days to learn mandarin but i have time while waiting for funding

[cicada]

im working on it. I think I should take a few days to learn mandarin but i have time while waiting for funding

This!  It never occurred to me to buy 6990s before they're branded and labeled.  Significant savings!

[deslok]

Quick! I'll give you half the profits in exchange for the plans!

[whenhowwho]

not 6990's btw

[mike678]

If your using gpu's the only possible way to do it in 15 machines would be through the 6990.

[whenhowwho]

lol nope a better card than the 6990. This thread is kind of fun

[deslok]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess workstation cards may be involved.

[Jack of Diamonds]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess workstation cards may be involved.

FirePro, Tesla and Quadro cards are horrible for mining.

A card faster than a 6990 doesn't exist.

the 5870x2 ARES and a custom 6970x2 are roughly as fast as a 6990

[Chick]

im working on it. I think I should take a few days to learn mandarin but i have time while waiting for funding

Care to share how you're able to achieve this?

[yetis]

A 5970 is slightly faster than a 6990. (in mining)
Anyway, it would'nt be enough.


Maybe he means vectorbased processing power?  ==>

The Earth Simulator with its vectorbased CPUs is still the fastest Supercomputer in the world measured per core performance and would even beat every GPU- or CPU-based Supercomputer if he had enough cores.

Here's an example:

1. RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS)
Japan   K
SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz
Tofu interconnect / 2011 Fujitsu
548352 cores ->   8162.00 RMAX

2. National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin
China   Tianhe-1A
NUDT TH MPP, X5670 2.93Ghz 6C
NVIDIA GPU, FT-1000 8C / 2010 NUDT
Cores 186368 -> 2566.00 RMAX

...

68.  Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology
Japan   Earth Simulator
SX-9/E/1280M160 / 2009 NEC
1280   cores -> 122.40 RMAX

May the Earth Simulator have 70 x 1280 cores = 89600 cores => 8568 RMAX

This fictionary example shows that one NEC SX-9/E vectorprocessor rig would outperform any CPU- or GPU-based rig.  

So, this would be the only solution for me in winning the race mining for Bitcoins.

But 15 Machines of this NEC SX-9/E may be more expensive than 70k USD i think.

So, tell us your solution!

He said that he's willing to learn mandarin? Hmm... There must be something going on in little China.


Edit: Even only one would be enough i think so... -> http://www.nidokidos.org/threads/20389-NEC-Vector-Supercomputer-SX-9-Worlds-Fastest-Supecomputer

[yetis]

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