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November 08, 2013, 12:24:45 PM |
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Try putting 10, 50, 100 or 1000 of them in a room and you will see what "statistical noise" sounds and feels like.
Sure, but it would still only be 1.58% of the power consumption as long as you dont need AC. Which of course isnt likely, but if you followed the thread, that was my point.
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November 08, 2013, 12:38:05 PM |
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Difficulty growth seems to be faltering finally.
It's just a little silence before storm. It will flatter in 50PH range....
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Under development Modular UPGRADEABLE Miner (MUM). Looking for investors. Changing one PCB with screwdriver and you have brand new miner in hand... Plug&Play, scalable from one module to thousands.
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November 08, 2013, 01:26:14 PM |
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One thing no one has mentioned and i would like to hear opinion on.
With immersion cooling (I expect) the temperature is constant, deviating only slightly from the boiling point of the liquid. Air is different because its low heat conductance, the more btu output the hotter the chip gets because it can't be carried away quickly. With such high thermal densities being tested above this won't be a problem.
So what will being able to lock the chips temperature in at a cool 40C be? (Marginally?) More efficient? Over clocking potential?
The writeup mentions a longer timeline for large scale production but maybe a consumer device (enclosed cube) with immersion cooling is doable and possibly improves w/GH? Wishful thinking?
Also, could this rescue a gen2 design which had poor thermal properties?
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November 08, 2013, 01:35:05 PM Last edit: November 08, 2013, 01:45:33 PM by Rival |
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I think the most overlooked statement is that there are currently no commercial data centers available that are designed to to handle the requirements of of a world-class farm. And definitely none that can scale to the farms of the future.
The brick wall that AM hit was not an inability to create chips and boards. It was finding a place to put them. The datacenters of today were not designed for the sort of high-heat high-density equipment that make bitcoin mining profitable. They were built for commercial servers and hard drive arrays... very different. Trying to build a mining farm can quickly overwhelm the resources and capacity of a datacenter built for common blade servers. Expansion starts to get really expensive when you count electricity, cooling, and especially infrastucture and even the building itself.
So he solved it.
Building? Poof, it's gone. Replaced by a $3000 shipping container. Cooling? 97% of costs eliminated. Not just high density of chips, but high density of boards. The very definition of optimization.
AM is doing for farms what ASIC technology did to video cards. Making anyone using generic facilities outdated, under-performing, uncompetitive, and obsolete.
He created ASCF: Application-Specific Computing Facility. (Coined here first!)
FC is so far ahead of the curve he is beyond the horizon.
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November 08, 2013, 01:47:59 PM |
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Building? Poof, it's gone. Replaced by a $3000 shipping container.
What are you referring to? Franchising? Or did I miss something?
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Monero's privacy and therefore fungibility are MUCH stronger than Bitcoin's. This makes Monero a better candidate to deserve the term "digital cash".
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November 08, 2013, 01:56:22 PM |
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Building? Poof, it's gone. Replaced by a $3000 shipping container.
What are you referring to? Franchising? Or did I miss something? i think he's referring to this:
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November 08, 2013, 02:17:47 PM |
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Difficulty growth seems to be faltering finally.
It's just a little silence before storm. It will flatter in 50PH range.... ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fwgpazme.png&t=665&c=o19-gpmp0kUFzQ)
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November 08, 2013, 02:22:58 PM |
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Building? Poof, it's gone. Replaced by a $3000 shipping container.
What are you referring to? Franchising? Or did I miss something? i think he's referring to this: Thanks! I had missed that... ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif)
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Monero's privacy and therefore fungibility are MUCH stronger than Bitcoin's. This makes Monero a better candidate to deserve the term "digital cash".
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November 08, 2013, 02:52:53 PM |
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November 08, 2013, 02:55:15 PM |
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yeah just a $3000 container and some bottles of fluorinert. lol for the record, similar solutions exist commercially, and are sold (in containers) for $2.per watt. that's more affordable than a brick and mortar datacenter but the price of the container itself doesn't really matter ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) I would also dispute that datacenters suitable for mining don't exist the requirements for hpc and gpu compute are quite similar.
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November 08, 2013, 03:07:34 PM |
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FC is so far ahead of the curve he is beyond the horizon.
Yes. And AM is the only company showing sings of trying to implement a strategy for years, not months, into the future. This is endgame stuff.
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November 08, 2013, 03:12:06 PM |
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FC is so far ahead of the curve he is beyond the horizon.
FC changed the game. Again. Strange to see so little excitement over this development, it is pretty significant. Being the first to create such a large ASIC farm, AM naturally encountered problems quite early that others will face eventually (or are currently facing) -- and saw the opportunity to solve it, then package the solution for others to benefit. The brilliance of this move may not be obvious at the moment -- someone running a few mining boxes in their mother's basement is unlikely to encounter these problems -- but as mining becomes more professionalized, lowering their costs with a solution like this may be the only way to be profitable.
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November 08, 2013, 03:22:47 PM |
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FC is so far ahead of the curve he is beyond the horizon.
FC changed the game. Again. Strange to see so little excitement over this development, it is pretty significant. Being the first to create such a large ASIC farm, AM naturally encountered problems quite early that others will face eventually (or are currently facing) -- and saw the opportunity to solve it, then package the solution for others to benefit. The brilliance of this move may not be obvious at the moment -- someone running a few mining boxes in their mother's basement is unlikely to encounter these problems -- but as mining becomes more professionalized, lowering their costs with a solution like this may be the only way to be profitable. Give it a few weeks to set in. They need to start producing AM will rise once again.
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November 08, 2013, 03:26:02 PM |
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This will not affect the dividends for some time I am sure. Everyone seems to price shares by the dividends. That being said, I expect the share prices to languish until the dividends explode. By then it will be too late to get on the bandwagon, as always occurs.
Buy when there is blood on the streets. It is pennies on the dollar.
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November 08, 2013, 03:52:47 PM |
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Questions is now... do I save up and buy that board seat now? Or give up on that dream XD
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November 08, 2013, 04:00:30 PM |
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Still "Inventing it" friedcat, well done.
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November 08, 2013, 04:32:59 PM |
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So basically, Friedcat is Heisenberg, and he's moving operations to the Winnebago. Amazing. ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FsAhaHSV.jpg&t=665&c=cZnPBv32uF3pyw)
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November 08, 2013, 04:40:00 PM |
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So basically, Friedcat is Heisenberg, and he's moving operations to the Winnebago. Amazing.
Heisencat? ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.obviouswinner.com%2Fstorage%2Fpost-images%2Fbreaking-bad-cat-1.jpg%3F__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION%3D1360246870683&t=665&c=yFbD3sDUHMuasA)
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November 08, 2013, 04:56:54 PM Last edit: November 08, 2013, 05:28:46 PM by bitsalame |
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Great looking product, fascinating concept, but as stated by others I really fail to see any huge application or sales for it.
No-one other than Bitcoin miners needs such a product, so there's no outside market. It clearly isn't viable for most home miners, so it's limited to a small number of large-scale miners and AM themselves. So whats the market globally for these - half a dozen?
It also only helps cool mining operations more effectively, so won't sell anymore chips or change ROI, since ROI on most chips doesn't happen even if electricity was free.
It's only tangible benefit will be to AM's own mining operations to reduce electricity costs, which in the long-term become more of a relative issue, but this could still be better solved and beaten by mining operations that simply exist in areas of cheaper electricity or where less cooling is required eg data-centres in cold areas.
Sure? 1) http://phys.org/news/2012-09-intel-math-oil-dunk-cooler-servers.html2) http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/12/21/facebook-tests-immersion-cooling/Yeah, no market at all.
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