On: Supercomputing on the cheap with Parallella

[hosh]

... or use ASICs and skip the general-purpose supercomputer all together.

[CraigJPerry → hosh]

For $99?

[hosh → CraigJPerry]

We were talking about card-based GPUs, but sure: http://www.amazon.com/ASICMiner-Block-Erupter-336MH-Sapphire...

There are far better things to do with a Parallela than mining, and far better things that work better for mining. I'd make a miner out of a Parallela system because I am curious about the tech and want practice at writing software for it not because I want a competitive miner.