I'm curious what c&c think about nvidia's grid technology.
I don't quite know enough about this to really say, but it claims graphics rich cloud computing. And it's nvidia. Imagine if it were profitable and/or scaled well enough!
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/05/22/free-grid-test-drive/#sthash.UMVxXgxq.dpuf
I don't quite know enough about this to really say, but it claims graphics rich cloud computing. And it's nvidia. Imagine if it were profitable and/or scaled well enough!
http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/05/22/free-grid-test-drive/#sthash.UMVxXgxq.dpuf
well the grid GPUs can be rented (e.g. through amazon EC2). The trick is to find coins that are actually profitable.
Maxcoin mining in the grid would have really paid off. Throw 100 instances at it and rake in the blocks.
The downside of EC2 is that you don't get a lot of GPU power per rented instance (it's just 8 SMX and
a Compute 3.0 device in the g2.2xlarge category, or alternatively 2 Tesla M2050 with 448 Compute 2.0
capable Cores each in the cg1.4xlarge category).
Christian
Ah yeah, I recall some interest in amazon, but heard it was mostly unprofitable (and it makes sense, because if it was widely known that it was, it would very rapidly become not so). I was more curious if nvidias grid has the potential to be a game changer for cloud mining.
I mean if we could get some beefy compute 5.0 virtual desktop and it would run ccminer, it could be intriguing. I mean, nvidia would likely want to show of their best tech, but I don't know much about their non-consumer sector.
At the very least, they're doing 24h free trials for those in the us. 24h of a free extra rig isn't bad at all.
), but Monero is a very special case in this regard (if it keeps making the right steps as it moves forward). 
