Well taking a dive in to cpu mining with kubernetes cluster 4 nodes and 1 master contol, using x58 xeon mother boards x5650 6 core 12 thread processors
2 mother boards have 20 gb ram 2 mother boards have 24 gb ram, 4 128 gb ssd drives on nodes 1 1tb ssd drive on control may cut back to 256 gb after installing software and configuring can always clone drive to smaller one after
1 videocard, 1 keyboard 1 mouse
3 mounted nodes other 2 boards being setup
Still setting up all software
3 power supplies 1 480 watt master controller 1 500 watt node 1 & 2 1 600 watt power supply 4 nodes 2 boards per power supply master control 480 watt power supply
Have been mining on Unmineable for a year using these boards using multiple miners running on each board, looking at using xmrig ghostrider algorythm by 5 coins mining per node and on master control 2 threads each miner and 2 threads for system overhead
Not asic cant change in subject
There are going to be 120mm fans blowing scross mother boards to keep every thing cool, working out aluminum base plate to hold mother boards and power supplies plus the ssd drives in a stack
Have been mining on these boards for 1.5 years now and all work stable 24/7 without locking up or rebooting, only power outages cause mining to stop
This will not be the only cluster, looking at building a 10 mother board cluster x99 with a 20 core 40 thread processor, 9 nodes and a control system
For mining with xmrig under kubernetes and docker
As money becomes available
the first cluster of x58 5650 processor systems are going to run on 4 x 200 watt 12 volt dc solar panels with 300 amphr lithium iron batteries x 4 with 60 amp charge controller more added later to extend run time
with 450 watt 12volt atx power supplies x 5 of them for test purposes and for power offset from 18.5 cent per kwatt hour
600 watt for x99 cluster later
