Topic: Mining with Windows Azure Cloud Service - 20 cores free for 100 hours - page 2. (Read 13721 times)
January 02, 2014, 11:44:17 PM
what pool is best for this?
January 02, 2014, 09:57:21 PM
Your mileage may vary, but I ran two separate Azure trial accounts like this, and a friend ran eight (160 cores!). Neither of us ran into any problems from Microsoft, even though we each used a single credit card for all our trials.
January 02, 2014, 02:58:26 PM
I didn't see any posts on this, has anyone else tried this out for fun?
I ran out my free credit with HP Cloud and AWS and decided to try Windows Azure. The prices fluctuate but you get $200 free credit and can get 20 cores going for about 100 hours at no cost.
I am getting about 4 khash/s for each core so 80 khash/s isn't bad for free and taking 15 minutes to set it up.
Once you're signed up, info on creating your VMs is here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/tutorials/virtual-machine-from-gallery/
Use two 8 core Ubuntu 13.10 instances and one 4 core to get all 20 going.
Connect to each instance and run the below and you're ready to go.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/files/pooler-cpuminer-2.3.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzf pooler*
./minerd --url=stratum+tcp://myminingpool.com:3333 --userpass=my.worker:password
I ran out my free credit with HP Cloud and AWS and decided to try Windows Azure. The prices fluctuate but you get $200 free credit and can get 20 cores going for about 100 hours at no cost.
I am getting about 4 khash/s for each core so 80 khash/s isn't bad for free and taking 15 minutes to set it up.
Once you're signed up, info on creating your VMs is here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/tutorials/virtual-machine-from-gallery/
Use two 8 core Ubuntu 13.10 instances and one 4 core to get all 20 going.
Connect to each instance and run the below and you're ready to go.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/files/pooler-cpuminer-2.3.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzf pooler*
./minerd --url=stratum+tcp://myminingpool.com:3333 --userpass=my.worker:password
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