Re: Free $100 Amazon EC2 Credit for CPU mining Photoshares or anything else...
Hi All,
I just tried this yesterday and it worked: http://aws.amazon.com/big-data/powerof60/
You will get an e-mail within 5 minutes with the Redemption code for Amazon ews $100 credits.
You can use it for example for about 19 hours of 20 cc2.8xlarge servers mining Photoshares (PTS)
Current Spot Price in Oregon for cc2.8xlarge which is a 32 core box is @ 0.253 / hour
Spot Price in Virginia for cc2.8xlarge is @ 0.27/hour
Here's how to quickly mine some photoshares:
1. Create a Spot Request for Amazon Linux AMI (HVM) 2013.09.1, select Compute Optimized cc2.8xlarge instance.
Put in your maximum price of 0.253. (Don't put in more than the current spot price, as you will automatically raise the price for the next time you want to
create a spot request/ or someone else
)
I like to check the Persistent Request box so that it will try again periodically if it's not able to fullfill your request.
2. After you request get's fullfilled( usually within 5 minutes) connect to your server:
3. Now, let's set up Photoshares with yPool:
You have to get the latest linux miner from yvg1900 from https://mega.co.nz/#F!h0tkXSxZ!f62uoUXogkxQmP2xO8Ib-g
You should get core2 version: jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2.tgz
I uploaded it to my dropbox and copied it from there, but if you are paranoid, you can do it yourself
Next, we need to extract it:
Now, let's cd into (cc2.x8large box has 60 GB of ram, with 32 cores, enough for 1GB of ram per mining thread...
You can then run the miner:
4. Make miner start after reboot...
Add the following line to crontab:
Save the file with ":x" and you are set.
5. Now the easy part: create an image of your running instance: select instance -> Actions -> Create Image
6. After AMI is created, you can pick it when you make Spot Requests.
7. Spawn 19 more instances and watch your yPool shares go nuts...
8. Turn off your servers in about 19 hours...
Hope this works for you.
If it does, please drop me some BTC @ 1GU6NwUU5tS8doqfwgEfZR4mfTU7fqo4XF
PTS @ PiFDaxqxysKrxKeFbj2HEeGQ8ifvigmfco
Thanks!
Hey, thanks for sharing this. I wonder, though, about the chrontab line, how did you set it up (I mean the directory)? And the other thing: how do you turn off your servers? Thanks!I just tried this yesterday and it worked: http://aws.amazon.com/big-data/powerof60/
You will get an e-mail within 5 minutes with the Redemption code for Amazon ews $100 credits.
You can use it for example for about 19 hours of 20 cc2.8xlarge servers mining Photoshares (PTS)
Current Spot Price in Oregon for cc2.8xlarge which is a 32 core box is @ 0.253 / hour
Spot Price in Virginia for cc2.8xlarge is @ 0.27/hour
Here's how to quickly mine some photoshares:
1. Create a Spot Request for Amazon Linux AMI (HVM) 2013.09.1, select Compute Optimized cc2.8xlarge instance.
Put in your maximum price of 0.253. (Don't put in more than the current spot price, as you will automatically raise the price for the next time you want to
create a spot request/ or someone else
)I like to check the Persistent Request box so that it will try again periodically if it's not able to fullfill your request.
2. After you request get's fullfilled( usually within 5 minutes) connect to your server:
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ssh -i your_key.pem root@xx.xx.xx.xx
3. Now, let's set up Photoshares with yPool:
You have to get the latest linux miner from yvg1900 from https://mega.co.nz/#F!h0tkXSxZ!f62uoUXogkxQmP2xO8Ib-g
You should get core2 version: jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2.tgz
I uploaded it to my dropbox and copied it from there, but if you are paranoid, you can do it yourself
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Next, we need to extract it:
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tar zxvf jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2.tgz
Now, let's cd into (cc2.x8large box has 60 GB of ram, with 32 cores, enough for 1GB of ram per mining thread...
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cd jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2
cd linux64-core2-1024M
cd linux64-core2-1024M
You can then run the miner:
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./jhprotominer -O ypool.net -u username.worker -p password -t 32
4. Make miner start after reboot...
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sudo crontab -e
Add the following line to crontab:
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@reboot /PATH_to_JHProtominer/jhprotominer -O ypool.net -u username.worker -p password -t 32
Save the file with ":x" and you are set.
5. Now the easy part: create an image of your running instance: select instance -> Actions -> Create Image
6. After AMI is created, you can pick it when you make Spot Requests.
7. Spawn 19 more instances and watch your yPool shares go nuts...
8. Turn off your servers in about 19 hours...
Hope this works for you.
If it does, please drop me some BTC @ 1GU6NwUU5tS8doqfwgEfZR4mfTU7fqo4XF
PTS @ PiFDaxqxysKrxKeFbj2HEeGQ8ifvigmfco
Thanks!