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Mining cluster - msinha92 - Feb 13, 2015
Hey
Not sure if this is in the right forum, but here's what i want to do. (Let me know where to shift this if it isn't)
We have around 30 PCs connected on a high speed network, all running (any flavour of linux you want to insert here(actually mint 17)). They all have a weak AMD 5450HD graphics card. I want to be able to run crypto currency mining by clustering all these systems on the network. Any idea how I can do this?
(I have full permission to do so.)
Thanks!
* - Ortek - Feb 13, 2015
Why would you want to do this? The pc's you are talking about will do as much as they can handle, and it doesnt matter if they are clustered or not they wont hash more if you combine the power. So basically its already a sort of cluster as each pc does its share. On your pool dashboard you can see the combined hashrate and share stats, connectivity etc etc.
And the thing is that when you assign a unique worker id for each pc you can troubleshoot much easier as you can find the pc faster due to its id if it should ever freeze or idle :)
* - msinha92 - Feb 13, 2015
Incase i needed to setup the cluster to be able to use all the PCs, how would I do it?