convore.json/groups/bitcoin/bitcoin-on-rental-gpu-clusters/messages.json

[{"user_id": 1217, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35896, "date_created": 1305763632.601666, "message": "unfortunately mining on the nvidia fermi GPUs isnt all that great. if Amazon had ATI clusters, this thing would rip", "group_id": 638, "id": 1104862}, {"user_id": 1217, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35896, "date_created": 1305763606.501647, "message": "[ec2-user@ip-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX 64]$ ./bitcoind getinfo\n{\n    \"version\" : 32100,\n    \"balance\" : 0.00000000,\n    \"blocks\" : 125008,\n    \"connections\" : 74,\n    \"proxy\" : \"\",\n    \"generate\" : true,\n    \"genproclimit\" : -1,\n    \"difficulty\" : 244139.48158254,\n    \"hashespersec\" : 16830129,\n    \"testnet\" : false,\n    \"keypoololdest\" : 1305759224,\n    \"paytxfee\" : 0.00000000,\n    \"errors\" : \"\"\n}", "group_id": 638, "id": 1104858}, {"user_id": 1217, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35896, "date_created": 1305763703.4275889, "message": "this is with the regular bitcoin linux client. with a custom setup including cpuminer you can get something like 70M hashes/sec per GPU (2 on the GPU Cluster IIRC)", "group_id": 638, "id": 1104868}, {"user_id": 1217, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35896, "date_created": 1305763580.5850811, "message": "not cost-effective at the current going rate but im tinkering around with bitcoin on an EC2 GPU cluster for fun..", "group_id": 638, "id": 1104856}, {"user_id": 19298, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35896, "date_created": 1306253292.9239941, "message": "Just as how GPU mining thumped the CPU miners just under a year ago, FPGA and ASIC-based bitcoin mining will thump those loading up on GPUs.", "group_id": 638, "id": 1167503}, {"user_id": 19298, "stars": [], "topic_id": 35896, "date_created": 1306253865.2765779, "message": "Not to say there isn't a little time left for those mining on GPUs to earn back enough to pay off their investment in equipment and time, but just to point out that the playing field when using GPUs has been leveled -- there's little opportunity remaining to leverage  someone's investment in GPUs.\n\nFind some application that can use the same computing equipment that bitcoin mining has, and then the clusters can mine bitcoins when profitability is high, but then switch back to other computing when either the bitcoin price drops back down or difficulty increased to no longer be profitable.", "group_id": 638, "id": 1167568}]