Quote from: phillipsjk on January 31, 2015, 03:56:00 AM

Quote from: btcsim: simulating the rise of Bitcoin

It is worth noting that btcec, our elliptic curve math package, is optimized and faster than OpenSSL when performing operations over secp256k1.

You were not the only one to wonder about specs. I think you can probably assume "Semi-modern Intel CPU with ~4 cores at ~3Ghz".

Quote from: Ben Vulpes

What were the specs of the machine that capped out at 6 32MB blocks per hour?

I don't think you can easily extrapolate a 20MB block cpu load average by looking at that data studying 32MB blocks under different conditions either.

I did some research and with one of my VPS's(I have some dedis and multiple VPS's )On one I'm paying 10usd a month for 4 cores of Intel E3 CPUs 3.3GHz+ per core and per AUP I am allowed to use all 4 cores burstable and up to one of the cores for at least 1 hour continuously, thus one core running at 80% continuously on an Intel E3 CPUs 3.3GHz should be fine with a 10 usd /mo VPS.

Thus all we need to determine is if a single core 3.3GHz+ Intel can handle a node processing 20MB blocks.