What are the minimum system requirements to run a worker?
CPU - which technologies it must support, how many cores minimum?
GPU - Minimum amount of VRAM needed, minimum GPU Gen family?
HDD - Minimum space/speed?
RAM - minimum amount?
Thanks!
Greetings!
You will need any Linux with 4 + kernel, hardware requirements for both mining, GPU 3G VRAM and above
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SONM team
Sorry, but the sentence above brings almost zero information.
Can you please be more thorough?
Greetings!
We have no minimum hardware requirements. But we must understand that the most profitable will be the equipment that is as productive as possible. Or it has an optimal balance between price and performance. That is, if we are talking about mining farms, then for them the natural phenomenon will be a bias towards powerful video cards along with a low-performance processor and a small amount of RAM. At the same time, such equipment is highly specialized, poorly designed for other tasks, for example, machine learning or rendering. For these use cases, a sufficiently powerful processor and a large amount of RAM are already needed, and an SSD and 16x PCI lines for connecting video cards are also desirable (for more efficient rendering). If we want to connect a mining farm, then mining as part of SONM will work fine, but for other use cases, you may have to rebuild the configuration to improve performance and profit — change CPUs, install SSD, add RAM. Here it is worth clarifying that all this, of course, makes sense if there is a constant amount of tasks in the SONM marketplace that can be calculated to recoup the investment on equipment upgrades. As a result, we come to the fact that a balanced configuration is needed, in which there will be both a GPU and a CPU with enough RAM, a fast SSD disk. Well, do not forget about a good connection to the network. Despite everything written above, we don’t want to limit equipment suppliers to any minimum requirements, because we are trying to build a platform on which to sell any any computing power, even small ones. Therefore, at this moment our requirements are only in the mandatory conditions for installing the platform (Linux-only for suppliers, kernel version 4+). There are no hardware requirements, but suppliers must understand that embedded video cards will not work, just as discrete video cards will not work when installing Linux with SONM on virtual machine. That is, these are not restrictions or requirements specifically for our platform, but certain technologies that are involved - virtualization, GPU-mining, Docker, Linux kernel, rendering etc
Best regards,
SONM team