Well it's a few hours later and I got a small trickle of BTC coming in according to my profile on Slush's site, so I must've set something up right.
Thanks for the help.
Next task: get a cpu miner to work and RPC it to Slush's pool.
The size of the pool is astounding... Even running a GPU client, I'm getting just ever so slightly over the per-user average (global shares / users).
Food for thought:
It would be interesting to see what other kinds of cool things that gp-gpu's can do. I've read the wiki page on distributed computing, but most of those seem small potatoes.
Currently the fastest single supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, uses 7168 nvidia Tesla's to produce 4.7 peta-flops.
Right now we're less than 2 orders of magnitude off from that, I'd estimate, which is still some serious compute power. And that's just assuming each setup in the Slush RPC is ~similar~ to my own.
[ 7128 teslas / 206 clients on slush's pool] = 34.79x, and factoring the performance difference between the "average" user's 50Mhash's and what a tesla 2050 would be a ballpark 1.5x to 3x difference and we're still talking a 52.2x to 104.4x difference between Slush's pool and the
world's fastest supercomputer. Back of the napkin, of course.
Damn, folks. This is some crazy stuff. I wonder what the total compute power of something popular, like folding@home, has at it's disposal.