Topic: the most powerful mining rig ever contrived - page 3. (Read 13464 times)

A 5970 is slightly faster than a 6990. (in mining)
Anyway, it would'nt be enough.


Maybe he means vectorbased processing power?  ==>

The Earth Simulator with its vectorbased CPUs is still the fastest Supercomputer in the world measured per core performance and would even beat every GPU- or CPU-based Supercomputer if he had enough cores.

Here's an example:

1. RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS)
Japan   K
SPARC64 VIIIfx 2.0GHz
Tofu interconnect / 2011 Fujitsu
548352 cores ->   8162.00 RMAX

2. National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin
China   Tianhe-1A
NUDT TH MPP, X5670 2.93Ghz 6C
NVIDIA GPU, FT-1000 8C / 2010 NUDT
Cores 186368 -> 2566.00 RMAX

...

68.  Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology
Japan   Earth Simulator
SX-9/E/1280M160 / 2009 NEC
1280   cores -> 122.40 RMAX

May the Earth Simulator have 70 x 1280 cores = 89600 cores => 8568 RMAX

This fictionary example shows that one NEC SX-9/E vectorprocessor rig would outperform any CPU- or GPU-based rig.  

So, this would be the only solution for me in winning the race mining for Bitcoins.

But 15 Machines of this NEC SX-9/E may be more expensive than 70k USD i think.

So, tell us your solution!

He said that he's willing to learn mandarin? Hmm... There must be something going on in little China.


Edit: Even only one would be enough i think so... -> http://www.nidokidos.org/threads/20389-NEC-Vector-Supercomputer-SX-9-Worlds-Fastest-Supecomputer

Care to share how you're able to achieve this?

FirePro, Tesla and Quadro cards are horrible for mining.

A card faster than a 6990 doesn't exist.

the 5870x2 ARES and a custom 6970x2 are roughly as fast as a 6990

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess workstation cards may be involved.

lol nope a better card than the 6990. This thread is kind of fun

If your using gpu's the only possible way to do it in 15 machines would be through the 6990.

not 6990's btw

Quick! I'll give you half the profits in exchange for the plans!

This!  It never occurred to me to buy 6990s before they're branded and labeled.  Significant savings!

im working on it. I think I should take a few days to learn mandarin but i have time while waiting for funding

So do it!

I find your post entertaining! Too bad I just exchanged all my BTC

That's exactly why I said this

lol my laptop only puts out 162 mh/s and I can run any flavor of crysis.


and yep after looking over my specs again you are right I had it figured without an extra zero so 15 boxes would yield  103,608 mh/s

so for less that 1 mil i could build a system that put out 1th/s and it would pay for itself in 3 months taking into account difficulty and power costs

I think Vladmir is somewhere in that relative vicinity, and needs data centers with special power supply just to get enough power to his rigs.  That'd could easily eat your $70k right there.

[edit] To be fair, he didn't specify GPUs exactly, just machines.  Perhaps he's found the magical fountain of cheap FPGAs? 

So each machine has to output 66ghash/s.

Even if you fit 8x6990 in a MSI BB Marshall motherboard with extension cables for a total of 16 gpu's and somehow get it to work, that's only 6400mhash/s per rig, or 96ghash in total.

It would also cost over $90,000 dollars.
A denser setup isn't possible at the moment; You can't get more than a theoretical 96,000mhash/s out of 15 machines with modern GPU's.

...and it can almost run Crysis.

You would need 14.28 megahash per dollar. Unless you found some fancy alien technology I highly doubt it.

For a little less that 70k USD I have come up with a way to make a mining farm that has 15 machines and outputs a little over 1th/s. mmmmmmmmm godlike. Now all i need is money