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1,995 dollar raspberry pi supercomputer

babadoctor
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Hey guys

 

I was wondering what your opinion on making a 2,000 dollar supercomputer out of 57 raspberry pi 2's to bitcoin mine would be? Is this a really really bad idea or... The tutorial i was planning on using to make it a supercomputer was this: 

and just hook them all up

 

ah i really dont want to post this now because you guys are going to laugh at this idea

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Any investment in mining is a waste at this point in the game.

 

You missed the boat.

The projects never end in my line of work.

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love how hes "using" windows on an iPad

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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It's dumb and a waste of money. There's no way he's going to be able to daisychain 57 pi's and get any sort of acceptable result.

 

Plus, MINING IS DEAD.

 

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Any investment in mining is a waste at this point in the game.

 

You missed the boat.

okay ):

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It's dumb and a waste of money. There's no way he's going to be able to daisychain 58 pi's and get any sort of acceptable result.

 

Plus, MINING IS DEAD.

):

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I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN

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Just... just lock the post

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I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN

 

If you'd have asked me this 3 or 4 years ago, I'd say buy a miner and you could do it...

 

Now? There's people with hundreds of miner boxes.

The projects never end in my line of work.

CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2650v2 || GPU: Dual Quadro K5000 || Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 || RAM: 64GB Corsair Vengeance || Monitors: Dual LG 34UM95, NEC MultiSync EA244UHD || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 Pro 256GB in Raid 0, 6x WD Re 4TB in Raid 1 || Sound: Xonar Essense STX (Mainly for Troubleshooting and listening test) || PSU: Corsair Ax1500i

CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.7GHz || GPU: Dual Titan X || Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe || RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport || Monitors: MX299Q, 29UB65, LG 34UM95 || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB in Raid 0, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 2TB Toshiba scratch disk, 3TB Seagate Barracuda || PSU: EVGA 1000w PS Platinum

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57 Pi's still slower than a i5 4690K

Why?

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Why?

 

Raspberry Pi is not a powerful computing platform.

 

It's very good at running scripted code... but not doing real calculation.

The projects never end in my line of work.

CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2650v2 || GPU: Dual Quadro K5000 || Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 || RAM: 64GB Corsair Vengeance || Monitors: Dual LG 34UM95, NEC MultiSync EA244UHD || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 Pro 256GB in Raid 0, 6x WD Re 4TB in Raid 1 || Sound: Xonar Essense STX (Mainly for Troubleshooting and listening test) || PSU: Corsair Ax1500i

CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.7GHz || GPU: Dual Titan X || Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe || RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport || Monitors: MX299Q, 29UB65, LG 34UM95 || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB in Raid 0, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 2TB Toshiba scratch disk, 3TB Seagate Barracuda || PSU: EVGA 1000w PS Platinum

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futurama-fry-meme-generator-not-sure-if-

 

 

I could make a torrent box for my raspberr pi

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I've seen tons of ambitious kids wanting to build pi SC's... All I can say is that it's a tremendous waste of money and has basically no usefulness 

Want a good game to play?  Check out Shadowrun: http://store.steampowered.com/app/300550/ (runs on literally any hardware)

 

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I liked the video, even though there is no practical use for this since a single Xeon is between 5-50x more powerful than a  single pi, not to mention the cost of  switches and power. Worst of all pi's don't have ecc ram (yet).

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