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I like the possibility of having tons of high-end GPUs being sold for bargain basement prices on eBay.

One of my never-started projects is to build a big GPU=based cluster shaped like a Cray-2. The original machine had, IIRC, 11 lobes and, therefore, having 11 GPU cards feels right (or 10 and use one lobe for the motherboard controlling everything. A Xeon Phi (if we are going crazy with GPUs, we should go crazy with the motherboard as well) has 36 PICe lanes, so I assume it'd be a fine choice. All this would be immersed in 3M's Novec 649 to keep the bubbly looks.



GPU's have not been used for mining Bitcoin for years. They are being used to mine other cryptocurrencies.


He wants a gpu compute cluster, not a notebook mining machine. They would be on the market because bitcoin's price is so tightly linked to many others including ethereum.


Aren't all serious Bitcoin miners using ASICs at this point? AFAIK those people who buy up all the GPUs are mining Ethereum and other, smaller coins.




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