I need help building a cluster that can mine cryptocurrency! Laugh, if you will, but it's been done already. I'm just having a helluva time getting information on how it was done. I'm not "wealthy" so I can't afford an $8000 ASCII Bitcoin miner that sounds like a jet engine while sucking all the power generated by a nuclear power plant. Spending many hours Googling various means of mining I read an article originally written by Motherboard magazine back in October of 2017. It featured a new program that Samsung was going to roll out called "Upcycling". While there's mention of several different projects done under the scope of this program such as an automatic fish feeder and a Linux cluster using a laptop and 40 Galaxy S5 phones. The premise of the program is to repurpose old tech such as cell phones for other uses. But that's ALL I know about the project. I've, for months now, tried contacting Samsung. I've written their customer service, media, Upcycling group direct. Nobody knows nuttin'! Or I don't get a response at all.
I'm a bit rusty with my Linux. Back when I took my LCA and Linux+ courses, Redhat and Mandrake were the top flavors. We did do a small cluster in class that helped with the Human Genome Project that was going then. While I don't know how the folks over at Samsung did things, but being the type of person I am, I haven't given up. I do know you can mine cryptocurrency with just one computer, utilizing a package called "cpuminer-multi". As the name implies, it's meant to use your PC's CPU to do the mining. There is a small niche of cryptocurrencies designed to be mined using a CPU vs a GPU or ASCII-based processor. Monero (XMR) is one such coin. Of note, cpuminer-multi likes AMD Ryzen processors and doesn't care for anything Intell.
As for hardware, I haven't decided whether to build a small box or look for a refurbished laptop on Amazon. I already have a handful of older Android phones I could easily install Linux on as well. Now it's a matter of figuring out how to enable cpuminer to work in parallel? Suggestions?
I'm a bit rusty with my Linux. Back when I took my LCA and Linux+ courses, Redhat and Mandrake were the top flavors. We did do a small cluster in class that helped with the Human Genome Project that was going then. While I don't know how the folks over at Samsung did things, but being the type of person I am, I haven't given up. I do know you can mine cryptocurrency with just one computer, utilizing a package called "cpuminer-multi". As the name implies, it's meant to use your PC's CPU to do the mining. There is a small niche of cryptocurrencies designed to be mined using a CPU vs a GPU or ASCII-based processor. Monero (XMR) is one such coin. Of note, cpuminer-multi likes AMD Ryzen processors and doesn't care for anything Intell.
As for hardware, I haven't decided whether to build a small box or look for a refurbished laptop on Amazon. I already have a handful of older Android phones I could easily install Linux on as well. Now it's a matter of figuring out how to enable cpuminer to work in parallel? Suggestions?
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