Quote from: btcgames on June 28, 2011, 05:53:27 PM

Quote from: wannaBhacker on June 28, 2011, 05:46:46 PM

There would be no benefit to have them in a cluster instead of just mining separately. And unless your electricity is free a single ATI card will give you much more hashing power at a much lower electricity cost.

To be clear, if you mine separately on each of them, you're most likely duplicating a lot of effort and essentially only getting any unique work done on the system with the fastest CPU. If you use a mining pool, they handle coordination to ensure that work isn't being duplicated by members of the mining pool. I believe you could get the same benefit by using a dedicated CPU mining program on each system and pointing them to your own Bitcoin client as the server.

You can get more information here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cpu_Miner

If he mines separately he will not be duplicating anything. Each miner will have unique work if he mines on them solo. However, time to mine a block at the current difficulty he will never see a block.

Now, back to the real question. Mine as a cluster or not, do not. Just hook them each up to a mining pool with a CPU Miner and you are good to go.