bitcoin mining

[George Toft]

I just bought two HP DL 380 G5's for a project.  Server cost was under 
$500 for 32GB RAM, two quad core XEON CPU's, and four 73GB SAS drives 
with hardware RAID in a 2U package.  That's 8 real cores of processing 
for $300 and they were quiet, too - it didn't sound like a turbine 
engine like most servers.

At this point, I would shop for 3 year old hardware coming off lease 
rather than building a cluster.  Just a thought.

Regards,

George Toft

On 3/19/2014 2:51 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> actually.... I have another use for the hardware if the bit coins 
> become worthless so I  am not overly concerned.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com 
> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
>     Look into ASIC based bitcoin mining it's way way way faster than
>     using standard computers to do the mining.
>
>     That being said, I would wait a little while and see how bitcoin
>     plays out.  It's on rocky ground right now and you might find that
>     you have purchased a bunch of hardware and burned a ton of
>     electricity to mine a bitcoin that turns out to be worthless.
>
>     Brian
>
>
>     On 03/19/2014 02:35 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>         what I'm thinking of doing is buying a bunch of used computers and
>         turning them into a super-computer and using that for the bit-coin
>         mining. What is super-computerizing called?
>
>         :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>         On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Michael Havens
>         <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>             how do I get involved with this? Any pointers... how-tos?
>             :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
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