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Daniil Popov2017-07-11 12:16:26
Virtualization
Daniil Popov, 2017-07-11 12:16:26

Is it possible to virtualize mining farms?

Youtube was flooded with videos "look at my wonderful mining farms." Curiosity got the better of me and I looked at a few. What I saw, to put it mildly, stifled me: people have whole racks of trusses with several video cards in each, and each truss is an independent system.
Having studied the issue a little, I saw that if monitoring of farms is still somehow possible to organize, then there is no smell of centralized management. What can I say, I didn’t even see a single KVM switch. Management is organized through TeamViewer and similar inconvenient solutions.
In this regard, I had a question: is it possible to combine such machines into a cluster and manage as a single entity? If I participated in this event, then this is the first thing I would think about.
Ps in matters of mining and visualization, I have superficial ideas, if I ask stupidity, please don't throw rotten tomatoes.
I am not engaged in mining, but the question does not give peace of mind, but I have not found an answer.
NVIDIA GRID technology seems to allow this, but special cards are needed there and in general it looks like an industrial solution, I'm interested in the possibility of implementation at the household level.
upd: I'm satisfied with an answer like "No, some kind of stupidity" or "Yes, you can deploy * technology / software *"

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sazhyk, 2017-07-11
@groog

If you dug deeper into this topic, you would understand that miners are concerned about one single question in general: how to get the maximum benefit with minimal investment. By itself, mining equipment is already worth a lot of money, and even more so in the light of recent events about the rampant “mining-brain-brain”.
Let's go in order. What can be centralized control in this situation? I see two options: a direct connection to the farm or a software connection. Direct - KVM-switch. Software - thousands of them, but TW has a number of advantages over others; free, covers all user requests. A kvm switch for several cars will cost a lot of money. Here's stupidly from Google fluently: tynts , tynts , tynts. Well, this is about one more card that will bring loot. Another indisputable advantage of timka: you can steer farms even from Antarctica, as long as there is an Internet.

... What I saw, to put it mildly, stifled me: people have entire racks of trusses with several video cards in each, and each truss is an independent system.
Having studied the issue a little, I saw that if monitoring of farms is still somehow possible to organize, then there is no smell of centralized management. What can I say, I didn’t even see a single KVM switch. Management is organized through TeamViewer and similar inconvenient solutions.

Farms need maintenance. And stopping the entire "cluster" because of one failed card is nonsense.
Come on, calm down)))
PS: correct the title of the question, it does not reflect the essence of the question in any way (virtualization??? WTF). Did you want to offer a super-mega-sized program for monitoring-management-and-something-there? (irony, sorry, couldn't resist)

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Sergey Mirchenko, 2017-07-12
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