I pay you for creating plot files for me
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@RichBC In practice I got 98.7 UP and 99.3 DOWN ;-) For sure that does not make sense for $2 but like I say to haitch with some effort I can reduce that time, I have to think about it.
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@BenBurst That is very impressive however may not be possible to get that when uploading to Amazon Cloud Drive, which also requires that they are done in < 50GB chunks. Have a think as I am still interested in getting plots up there faster than my 20Mb/s allows.
Rich
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@RichBC I think for this idea to work on this scale you would have a coordinate multiple plotters and assign each one a certain plot range and pay them a set amount when the job is complete. Even at the upload speed of @BenBurst it would take 250 day at optimal speed 100% of the time. What you need to do is get 30 plotter assign them 8.3TB Each and make sure that they are all plotting the proper ranges. By doing this you can reduce plotting time to less than 2 weeks.
Just something to consider.
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@AngryChicken Not sure where the 30 x 8.3TB = 250TB came from? I suspect that the multiple plotter approach would then run into other problems with Amazon as their system is bound to detect "unusual activity" resulting in the account being locked.
Just to be clear plotting is not a problem, it's the uploading that is the bottleneck.
I for the moment am running 24/7 with my 20Mb/s and see how that goes. It's slow but has no incremental cost for me. At best I should get 1TB / Week, however I suspect in reality it will be half that?
Rich
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@schnebi I like your idea but i don't like the idea of using google drive?!
Although i have a solution that will work for you... I can do plots for you but i can plot only around 500Gb to 1Tb (depending on my usage of the machines i have at my disposal) per day and do a local FTP and give you the link and password to it, then you just download it at your location... that way i avoid to upload since the files will be in my PC and you can download them directally?!
If you are up to it we can work something out?! Let me know...
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@gpedro
Using FTP is exactly the same thing as Uploading a file, the difference is just that somoene is downloading a file from you (using your upload bandwith) instead that you upload the file somewhere...@AngryChicken Hi there, wow, who speack about that amount of data ??? I can give some try with uploading plots but not for 250+ TB, thats crazy.
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@BenBurst It's not exactly the same... my problem is not the bandwidth used, my problem is the time that will take me to upload the files to the google drive LOL
I had my shares of uploads to google drive since i mine with 20 Google drives LOL
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@gpedro
When I say "using FTP is exactly the same thing" I mean in term of upload bandwidth, thats change nothing if YOU upload a file or if somoene download a file from you in term of bandwidth use.Your problem IS the bandwidth, its the bottleneck there.
Ben
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@BenBurst Yes but if i had to upload the files there is the issue of the time that will take for me to upload to the cloud and then the time he will take to download the file from the cloud, and if i set up an FTP locally he can just download from my PC what will take him more time to download but it will be made all at once... Again my problem is not the bandwidth spent because i have unlimited traffic my issue is only the upload to the cloud... If i use the FTP he will download max at 15mbps and if i upload to the cloud i will upload max at 4.5mbps... Theres a big diff in time for me LOL
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@gpedro yeah thats right, problem is not bandwidth spent, but bandwidth speed ;)
Anymway, at this speed, there no big differences beetween 4.5mbps and 15mbps if we speack about terrabytes of data...
On smaller files I understand that you use FTP if there is x3 speed differences. But thats a bit surprising that you cant get more than 4.5 on the cloud ?
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@BenBurst Usually is even lower LOL sometimes i had picks of 7mbps but mostly it was between 3.5 and 4.5 ... believe me when i say that took me more than one month to have those 20 google drives up and running... and besides that there is the issue of uploads failing often with clouds...
And i will not upload files of 1Tb that would be insane for my PC LOL i will have to plot files of 300Gb max but i think that i will make it even lower (like 100 or 200Gb per file) so i can be plotting and he can be downloading more often... I have the issue of not having much space left on my PC too hahaha
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@gpedro Wow more than a month... Your a brave guy gpedro o// lol The more I talk in this tread, the more Im telling me that it will be a good service to offer (for low bandwidth guys) cloud plotting services...
I will give it a try during the day and let you guys know @RichBC @schnebi ;)Ben
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@BenBurst LOL yeah.. i believed in cloud mining since my beggining in burst and i tested a lot of clouds so it is like a project on the long run hahaha I have a little over than 300Gb in clouds plotted and running for some months now without an issue... Actually i have another PC what means that i could have another 20 clouds but my testing purposes on google drives ended already so i kind of don't have the patience to take another month to do it hahaha Testing a lot of other stuff and i have an pretty good idea of how cloud mining may work but as it is not completely worked out i will not reveal it just yet hahaha
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@BenBurst Please let me participate.
My PC run two OpenCL supported graphic card.
Please give me gpuPlotGenerator.exe's command line list and tell me how to send to you.Do you not need one big size plot file isn't it? I can generate up to 1TB one plot file.
In my opinion, upload time = generate time. So you find free big file uploader. In general, files are saved on these servers for only a few days and they disappear automatically. You pick up until auto delete by server.
Hajime
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@Hajime I honestly do not believe that uploading by one person and downloading by another is a viable approach for the amount of data we need? I think even sending someone a Hard drive, plotting and returning would be better...
Rich
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@Hajime Hi,
Like @RichBC say, Uploading and then downloading will not be realy viable for the data amount we need.Ben
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But the scammer may steal that HDD. Shipping costs (although he seems to be rich) it costs, and transporting HDD is risky.
... Oh, send BD-R media! How about it?
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One media, one file. Very simple isn't it?

