Pi Currency and Pi Network – an Introduction
Pi Network and its native Pi currency are a hot and interesting recent development in the areas of crypto-currency and social platforms. It’s interesting both for its scope as well …
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Efficient Cooling for Profitable Crypto Mining at Home
Large-scale miners operating huge mining farms enjoy economies of scale and low energy cost. To stay profitable as an residential miner, efficient cooling is critical, in particular during a crypto …
Mining Pods using HP Z620, CentOS 7.4, and CUDA 9.1
Below is a complete recipe how to build stylish, efficient and quiet mining pods from scratch. It is my second try at building crypto coin mining systems, after using a …
Managing Compute with Intel AMT Management Engine
If you own a couple of workstations or servers, remote management becomes extremely important. One of the technologies that has been on the market for a long time is Intel …
Configuring Netis WF2419 as 300Mbps N Wireless Bridge
The Netis WF2419 is a miraculously low cost (only about $13) excellent value wireless bridge/repeater/router. It can be used as wireless client, and includes a 4-port switch. This is great …
Realtek RTL8118AS Networking Working on Ubuntu 16.04 Linux on Biostar B350GT5
In many cases, Linux installs without the need for additional drivers or tweaking. For instance, CentOS 7.4 installed just fine. But sometimes it does not. In this case, installing Ubuntu …
Getting Started Transacting Securely in Monero (XMR)
Note: Monero goes through periodical scheduled hard forks for making system upgrades. Check https://getmonero.org/downloads/ for the latest versions and SHA256 hashes. As of April 2018 the version is 0.12.0.0 (Lithium Luna). …
Thermal Design of Crypto Mining and Multi-GPU Rigs
When using computers with large number of GPU cards, cooling and thermal management quickly becomes a major headache. Here we discuss an approach of building rigs with rudimentary but still …
Control NVIDIA GPU Fan Speed on Linux Ubuntu 16.04
NVIDIA GPUs have fan speed profiles that control the fan to keep the noise to a minimum. In high-performance computing applications when the system is in a datacenter, it is …
How to Let ZFS Extend to Larger Disks
ZFS has a very convenient feature that lets you upgrade your storage capacity easily and in-service by replacing hard drives. You do need to know what you are doing though …