Primecoin Mining Rig - Parallela - page 4.

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Quote from: maco on July 30, 2013, 11:12:19 PM

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I've been thinking of buying one just to play with, primecoin and possibly even scrypt coins might be efficient to mine on this. Its only $99 to order one, even if its not usefull to mine primecoin its a fun linux computer you can play with. I'll buy it just as a toy and if it is efficient in mining primecoins all the better. Cheesy

Yeah, I think it will be pretty efficient and the fact it infinitely expandable is great. Means you can play with one and then buy more if you like it to sequentially increase the power.

I didn't buy it because of the TV thing... are we sure it would be fine to use it on your computer and super computer your computer instead of the TV?

I wouldn't want to overboard my PC and I don't know if our CPU is capable of handling it... It looks to be a standalone product.

It is by design meant to be able to easily be built up in parallel to infinitely increase the power (hence the name

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Quote from: mechs on July 30, 2013, 10:57:24 PM

Quote from: hendo420 on July 30, 2013, 10:51:15 PM

I've been thinking of buying one just to play with, primecoin and possibly even scrypt coins might be efficient to mine on this. Its only $99 to order one, even if its not usefull to mine primecoin its a fun linux computer you can play with. I'll buy it just as a toy and if it is efficient in mining primecoins all the better. Cheesy

Yeah, I think it will be pretty efficient and the fact it infinitely expandable is great. Means you can play with one and then buy more if you like it to sequentially increase the power.

I didn't buy it because of the TV thing... are we sure it would be fine to use it on your computer and super computer your computer instead of the TV?

I wouldn't want to overboard my PC and I don't know if our CPU is capable of handling it... It looks to be a standalone product.

mechs

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Quote from: hendo420 on July 30, 2013, 10:51:15 PM

I've been thinking of buying one just to play with, primecoin and possibly even scrypt coins might be efficient to mine on this. Its only $99 to order one, even if its not usefull to mine primecoin its a fun linux computer you can play with. I'll buy it just as a toy and if it is efficient in mining primecoins all the better. Cheesy

Yeah, I think it will be pretty efficient and the fact it infinitely expandable is great. Means you can play with one and then buy more if you like it to sequentially increase the power.

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I've been thinking of buying one just to play with, primecoin and possibly even scrypt coins might be efficient to mine on this. Its only $99 to order one, even if its not usefull to mine primecoin its a fun linux computer you can play with. I'll buy it just as a toy and if it is efficient in mining primecoins all the better. Cheesy

mechs

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With efforts to make a GPU miner for Primecoin floundering (and I am skeptical it would even be more effective than a system with a good 64-bit X86 CPU and fast memory), I was wondering if using Parallela to build a Primecoin mining rig would work well. It is low power, ideal for CPU intensive tasks, can easily add fast memory to it cheaply and is quiet and compact. It is also infinitely expandable.

I was thinking of ordering: http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-cluster-kit
This was a kickstarter project. Apparently they have already shipped boards to kickstarter contributors and sales to other customers will start in August. Here is the page describing this project: http://www.adapteva.com/introduction/

It strikes me this would be good for any CPU intensive mining coin and Primecoin may be a great candidate for this.

Thoughts?

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