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@snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian@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@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>
> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
> how do I get involved with this? Any pointers... how-tos?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>
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