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randomboy50

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Quote from: stcupp on February 20, 2012, 08:33:15 PM

Quote from: randomboy50 on February 20, 2012, 07:34:40 PM

Quote from: server on February 20, 2012, 07:32:36 AM

I like small and quiet clusters like this Roll Eyes

Icarus fpga cluster 2 Ghs @ 100W

Not to hijack the thread, but could someone give me the "explain it to me like im 5" explanation of what im looking at. I understand mining bitcoins with computers and such but these cards confuse me. How are they achieving that type of hash rate at such a low power draw?

Do some research on Field Gate Programmable Array's

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Field+Gate+Programmable+Array

http://www.damnlol.com/i/83ca76335c3d944e99cd95e147612edc.jpg

Thats how I felt while reading the Wiki but thanks for a starting point.

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Quote from: randomboy50 on February 20, 2012, 07:34:40 PM

Quote from: server on February 20, 2012, 07:32:36 AM

I like small and quiet clusters like this Roll Eyes

Icarus fpga cluster 2 Ghs @ 100W

Not to hijack the thread, but could someone give me the "explain it to me like im 5" explanation of what im looking at. I understand mining bitcoins with computers and such but these cards confuse me. How are they achieving that type of hash rate at such a low power draw?

Do some research on Field Gate Programmable Array's

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Field+Gate+Programmable+Array

randomboy50

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Quote from: server on February 20, 2012, 07:32:36 AM

http://i.minus.com/ijhCZtPi7LzjQ.jpg

I like small and quiet clusters like this Roll Eyes

Icarus fpga cluster 2 Ghs @ 100W

Not to hijack the thread, but could someone give me the "explain it to me like im 5" explanation of what im looking at. I understand mining bitcoins with computers and such but these cards confuse me. How are they achieving that type of hash rate at such a low power draw?

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Quote from: xiaomei on February 20, 2012, 04:22:05 PM

Has anyone built an AWS GPU cluster?

That's almost certainly not worth it. The GPU instances use Nvidia cards, which from what I gather are slow at hashing. Plus they cost $2.10/hr ($1500/mn).

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