Bitcoin Mining on Supercomputers!

[GreenBits-old]

Good day folks

We know supercomputers are the fastest of fastest computer in the world.What if we use that in mining Bitcoins?How much we earn for day?

[mocacinno]

Only a very small amount, especially compared to the cost, hosting and power consumption.

A so-called supercomputer is basically a cluster of "normal" x86 servers.

It's pretty hard to find these numbers, but i found a couple sites that might give a general indication:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing_in_Europe
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/11 ... rcomputer/
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-speciali ... comparison

Now, using these numbers, i can conclude that at the time somebody took the effort of benchmarking XEON's, he could get a maximum of 140 Mh/s from a Xeon Phi 5100.
This cpu has 4 cores.

The link from theregister.co.uk speaks of a supercomputer of 35.000 cores. This seems to be a lot.
35.000/4 = 8750 CPU's.
8750*140Mh/s = 1225000 Mh/s = 1225 Gh/s = 1.225 Th/s.
Compare this to a single S9, running at 14Th/s, costing $2000 and having a power draw of 1400 Watt and you'll quickly realise mining BTC with a CPU is just plain stupid, even when you have access to a supercomputer.

Now, i realise that a Xeon Phi was released in 2012-2013, and that it's very well possible some supercomputers have way more cores than the one i found... However, it's simply impossible to have a good outcome.

[GreenBits-old]

Only a very small amount, especially compared to the cost, hosting and power consumption.

A so-called supercomputer is basically a cluster of "normal" x86 servers.

It's pretty hard to find these numbers, but i found a couple sites that might give a general indication:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing_in_Europe
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/11 ... rcomputer/
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-speciali ... comparison

Now, using these numbers, i can conclude that at the time somebody took the effort of benchmarking XEON's, he could get a maximum of 140 Mh/s from a Xeon Phi 5100.
This cpu has 4 cores.

The link from theregister.co.uk speaks of a supercomputer of 35.000 cores. This seems to be a lot.
35.000/4 = 8750 CPU's.
8750*140Mh/s = 1225000 Mh/s = 1225 Gh/s = 1.225 Th/s.
Compare this to a single S9, running at 14Th/s, costing $2000 and having a power draw of 1400 Watt and you'll quickly realise mining BTC with a CPU is just plain stupid, even when you have access to a supercomputer.

Now, i realise that a Xeon Phi was released in 2012-2013, and that it's very well possible some supercomputers have way more cores than the one i found... However, it's simply impossible to have a good outcome.

Ah overall is not profitable mining in supercomputer.Its better to use a ASIC miner than supercomputers.

[Rmcdermott927]

Good day folks

We know supercomputers are the fastest of fastest computer in the world.What if we use that in mining Bitcoins?How much we earn for day?

ASICs will still be better as they are designed solely for efficiency in Bitcoin mining and are tuned for that purpose.

[Coalfridge]

Well, being a good computer does not make it a good mining device. Even for solo it is preferred to use GPUs because of their architecture.

[Kami]

Well, being a good computer does not make it a good mining device. Even for solo it is preferred to use GPUs because of their architecture.

But depends what crypto currency you will want to mined.
If mining in Bitcoin is better to use some ASIC miner it have more hashing power than GPU.