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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.<br>
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      At this point, I would shop for 3 year old hardware coming off
      lease rather than building a cluster.  Just a thought.<br>
      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Regards,

George Toft
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      On 3/19/2014 2:51 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">actually.... I have another use for the hardware if
        the bit coins become worthless so I  am not overly concerned.</div>
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        <div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Brian
          Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            Look into ASIC based bitcoin mining it's way way way faster
            than using standard computers to do the mining.<br>
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            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>
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            Brian
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              On 03/19/2014 02:35 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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                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>
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                :-)~MIKE~(-:<br>
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                On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Michael Havens <<a
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                wrote:<br>
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                    how do I get involved with this? Any pointers...
                how-tos?<br>
                    :-)~MIKE~(-:<br>
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