Just to clarify I have 12 GPU cards. I do things for failover and redundancy because that is how I set up everything that handles potential income. It might be excessive but it is just a habit.
As far as ASIC goes, How many people do you know personally with ASIC rigs?
As far as my huge amount of memory, I will need that to run numerous instances. One thing I am just checking out is the possibility of adding nodes even if I could virtualize an ASIC chip. They have such low power useage and would take up low CPU and perhaps GPU cycles that if I can virtualize and ASIC instance , then maybe this rig would not be a waste of money.
My one test was a dismal failure at about 26600 Mh but I was testing on cracking phpBB3 hashes when I got that speed, so I will see for sure in a day or two.
Most likely this will be a bad investment though. I can face that but I am going to look for ways to "hedge" a potential loss.
No pictures yet. On the off chance this does work, I really don't want copycats with my rig chugging away at what could be my bitcoins. If it works I might be open to "leasing" as part of my hedge plan. Being that if it works, I lease instances as a hedge against BTC for dollars.
Failover? Redundancy? can you elaborate further on those topics? because I don't think they apply to the bitcoin world unless we are talking about a pool that needs to be up 24x7 or a market exchange, but from the miner's perspective?
Failover means that when , lets say, The State of Missouri is destroyed in an act of clumsiness typical of that state and my rig is destroyed with it, my other rig either surrenders half of its tasks and takes on the tasks of the dead Missouri rig or it takes over in full by creating more instances to make up for those lost. This is why I need huge logging space because the failover rig will have to collect data from the failed rig. The colos provide 24/7 AC and backup power so I figured I might as well take advantage of them.
Redundant means they are the same and have the ability to failover.
There is no data to collect, No reason to fail over. Your rigs are running calculations and reporting the results to the pool operator. If you want to solo mine, you may want redundancy in your main wallet but not for the whole rig. JUST RUN BOTH RIGS. No need for virtualization either. Like the guy up there said, you can run the os on thumbdrives with write errors. Hopefully those 96gpu are 6990's