<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">well if you Google beowulf cluster you will find the first one i had learned about. but there are a number of options out there.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">

<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">the main thing is once you have it set up you need to figure out what you will do with it. and that is where it gets interesting because you then usually have to build and design a workload for it.</div>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've always wanted to tether computers together for the experience and this is just giving me an excuse to do it! If I find my electric bill too high I can always stop doing it.<div>

But the question remains..... what good are butcoins/feathercoins/anyoftheothercoins? Where can they be used?</div>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:15 AM, sean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean.a.ritzler@gmail.com" target="_blank">sean.a.ritzler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



<p>You will be if you try to mine a cryptocurrency. I think you're underestimating how much processing power is needed to get coins. </p><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 20, 2014 10:06 AM, "Michael Havens" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">




<div dir="ltr">I'll tell you Rusty, I currently have 2 computers that I keep on 24 hours a day. I set it up so I pay a yearly average per month and right now my electric bill is $78/month. I'm not too worried about my electric bill.</div>






<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">






<div dir="ltr">thanks for the advise.... I wish I could afford it, Gilbert. now if just  tethering a bunch of computers together would work I could do that! Where could I spend this 'currency' at anyways?</div><div class="gmail_extra">







<br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mailing-lists@phoenixinternet.net" target="_blank">mailing-lists@phoenixinternet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>







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    <div>I have several customers mining in my
      collocation facility. They are using the custom ASICs. Every few
      months they seem to replace them with newer stuff. I can tell you
      the they use a lot of electricity and generate a lot of heat. You
      have to spend a lot of money to make money is all I can say. This
      is not the most environmentally favorable way to do so either.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
      <br>
      Gilbert</font></span><div><div><br>
      <br>
      On 3/19/2014 4:18 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">holy moly! they want between 400 and 10000 dollars
        for ASIC stuff. I figured I'd try tethering  a bunch of used
        computers together  because that is what I can afford to do.</div>
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        <div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Eric
          Cope <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric.cope@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.cope@gmail.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div dir="ltr">You will spend more money on electricity than
              any bitcoins you are able to mine with anything other than
              custom ASICs. If you want to fiddle around with a
              crypto-currency, I'd pick another one where mining on your
              personal laptop (or freely available PCs). <span><font color="#888888">
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                  <div>Eric</div>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:51
                    PM, Sesso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sesso@djsesso.com" target="_blank">sesso@djsesso.com</a>></span>
                    wrote:<br>
                    <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I
                      have a list of all of the types of coin that are
                      out there and the complexity to mine. I'll try to
                      remember to post it in here so that you can
                      research the different types of coin.<br>
                      <br>
                      Sent from my iPhone<br>
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                        <div><br>
                          > On Mar 19, 2014, at 2:43 PM, Brian Cluff
                          <<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>>
                          wrote:<br>
                          ><br>
                          > Look into ASIC based bitcoin mining it's
                          way way way faster than using standard
                          computers to do the mining.<br>
                          ><br>
                          > 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.<br>
                          ><br>
                          > Brian<br>
                          ><br>
                          >> On 03/19/2014 02:35 PM, Michael
                          Havens wrote:<br>
                          >> what I'm thinking of doing is buying
                          a bunch of used computers and<br>
                          >> turning them into a super-computer
                          and using that for the bit-coin<br>
                          >> mining. What is super-computerizing
                          called?<br>
                          >><br>
                          >> :-)~MIKE~(-:<br>
                          >><br>
                          >><br>
                          >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM,
                          Michael Havens <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a><br>
                          >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>>>
                          wrote:<br>
                          >><br>
                          >>    how do I get involved with this?
                          Any pointers... how-tos?<br>
                          >>    :-)~MIKE~(-:<br>
                          >><br>
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