GPUgrid goes bitcoin & AMD!!!!!!

[stoneageman]

Yeah, it's not the most reliable project. A heatwave has started here, so I will not be firing the cards up again for a while I'm still going strong on GPUgrid of course

[shadowwind]

wish i was able to get 2 670s but i needed the cash for 2 hand wired AC 30 amps and to have them modded .
this time of the year music pays my bills , gpugrid can wait till the end of the fall then i can help out.

good luck in quest for a cure,

[SMTB1963]

I still don't even know wth bitcoin even is guys...............srsly

It's definitely a challenge to fully understand bitcoin. Understanding the technology of the platform is difficult enough; grasping the mechanics of the larger bitcoin ecosystem is (frankly) beyond the ability of most. While I believe the bitcoin "experiment" has already failed, plenty of people smarter than me think it's worth ongoing effort - even without the profit motive.

As far as D@H is concerned, I can't argue with their results. Through their efforts (and the mining resources of their volunteers), they've substantially achieved their goal of funding a graduate research associate (PhD candidate) through the operation of their mining pool.

Can't help but begrudgingly give 'em a



(now excuse me while I go figure out why my WCG/GPUGRID output dropped to ZERO when I was away)



EDIT: bad switch in the garage (prolly couldn't handle the heat) on my end + serverlockolypse @WCG. Did get GPUGRID goin agin

[Bun-Bun]

Just setup my 7950 on this since WCGrid has no more work.

Is this still going and active?

[werdwerdus]

Just setup my 7950 on this since WCGrid has no more work.

Is this still going and active?

yes, for now

http://donateathome.org/forum_thread...wrap=true#1104

gdf
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we are not going to produce new updates for donate@home for now.

Reason being that it is likely that gpus will become soon too slow to mine for bitcoins replaced by new ASIC processors.

something about bitcoins halving in value or someting soon, check out the news section on the donateathome site

http://donateathome.org/forum_thread...wrap=true#1094

[Bun-Bun]

Ok i'll run it for now till I decide something else for my GPU's. Could put my GTX670 on GPUGrid I suppose.

[yojimbo197]

Do you guys use a separate GUI miner program for this or the BOINC application?

I'm just curious what current GUI miner programs people are using for mining BitCoints.

[werdwerdus]

using Donate@Home through BOINC mines for bitcoins for the GPUGrid project and is not for personal mining. Any bitcoins you find are not yours to keep but go straight to the D@H/GPUGrid project. In fact you won't even see any bitcoins AFAIK.

[werdwerdus]

So, donate@home is officially stopped. Just realised it today Not sure what to do with my 7850 rig?

http://donateathome.org/forum_thread.php?id=220

d@h was not able to be up consistently in the past few months. It has never been a champion of stability due to the complexity involved but now it's even worse with no apparent difference in the infrastructure.

Adding to this is the advent of ASICs for bitcoin crunching. These chips are way more power efficient than GPUs and so it makes no sense to keep crunching on GPUs.

The results of ASICs is that when we started the network power was around 8. Tera hashes/s. Yesterday was 110. This also mean that in the past few months we could not solve any block.

I'll be away for the next month, but as soon as I get back we will be reporting on what we have done and what we plan to do. Most likely stop it and re-purpose it.

For now, I would like to thank everybody who participated and wait for the reporting in 1 month.

gdf

[Snow Crash]

XS has a presence on all of these projects
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Space: Einstein or Milkway (milkyway gets better points)
Math: PrimeGrid
Cracking: Distributed Rainbow Tables (password cracking)
POEM - huge point bio project - sometimes difficult to get tasks

[werdwerdus]

I actually discovered a pulsar J1755-33 in Einstein in Nov. 2012 so I think I will go between Einstein/POEM/Milkyway. Really interested in astronomy/physics these days. Got my framed certificate of discovery from the university in Germany!