Hi And Using University Supercomputer To Mine Bitcoin?

[Ian999]

Hey Guys,

I am considering convincing my university to mine bitcoin on their supercomputer. Here is the link:

http://kb.iu.edu/data/bcqt.html

Is there a way to gauge the speed it will mine without actually doing it?

Thanks!

[Hexadecibel]

Just looking over the specs of the machine, one ASIC miner box would outperform it. It has one GPU.

21,000 CPUS might get you ~30/gh, depending, at a REDICULOUSLY inefficient cost/watt ratio.

If you used that thing to try to mine BTC you would be basically be throwing money into a hole.

edit: my bad, looks like it has 16 GPU cores. But you would still be spending way more on electricity than you could ever recoup in BTC.

[Ian999]

Processor cores   21,824   32 (compute)16 (GPU)
CPUs   1,364   2 (compute)    1 (GPU)

What does the 16 GPU represent then?

Just looking over the specs of the machine, one ASIC miner box would outperform it. It has one GPU.

21,000 CPUS might get you ~30/gh, depending, at a REDICULOUSLY inefficient cost/watt ratio.

If you used that thing to try to mine BTC you would be basically be throwing money into a hole.

edit: my bad, looks like it has 16 GPU cores. But you would still be spending way more on electricity than you could ever recoup in BTC.

[Welsh]

I doubt they would allow it because it would be inefficient because of the electricity bills. However, you could convince them about learning about Bitcoin & then using this to generate income and educating others about the machine and how Bitcoin works. Depends how awesome the university is I guess.

[Hexadecibel]

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

This may help you, and others