> Rob Schramm wrote: > I had started looking into coding for Bitcoin to use unused cycles on z/OS to > make money.
z/Series machines are not geared towards floating point operations the way commodity GPUs, FPGAs, or purposely built BitCoin miners are. So you surely would spend more money on electricity powering the machine than you'd gain through mining BitCoins, as is already the case for GPUs. Moreover, what type of licensing do you have where you can use unused cycles? We have MLC licensing, and as a result we get to use these unused cycles when we need more processing power than we have defined. If we were to use "unused cycles" for other purposes beforehand, it would kick up our 4HRA, and we'd cap much sooner, right when we actually need those cycles to service the business that pays our bills. Regardless, it's fun to know that people out there are looking in to what we can do with blockchain on our machines. Trying new stuff out just for the heck of it will always be a good thing in my book. -- Jan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
