Proposal: Distributed Computing / Mining forum

[hanluc]

I'm thinking that mining has become so popular now with all the new threads popping up in this forum it would be nice to have its own forum under Distributed Computing, calling it something like ' Crypto Currency Mining' keeping it separate from the "Team OcUK Distributed Computing Projects". There don't seem to be any Mods attributed with looking after this place any more so I don't know how we'd go about it but wondered what other peoples views were?

 

[hanluc]

Definitely a good idea haluc, I was quite involved with f@h a couple of years ago.

I feel team Ocuk distributed computing should be left for the likes of folding@home et Al. They are here for a good cause and I think they have taken a bit of a back seat to mining at the moment and it would be sad to see people forgetting about rye noble causes and work that DC projects contribute to.

+1

I feel now that mining has completely taken over this forum, with the mining thread constantly being bumped to the top.

 

[hanluc]

I have 3 rigs mining, all have 3770Ks in them and all are currently crunching Boinc projects, the way I see it is mining pays for the leccy and then some, of course it does tie up the GPUs but I only have so many because of mining and when it went slack a few months back I switched them to poem@home and was hitting 4 million a day.

It would be nice if some of these new 24/7 miners with half decent CPUs would help out the OcUK team, it has no impact on mining and the difference between running and not running the CPU power wise is only 60W per machine for me.

Nice going on GPUGrid btw Stan.