> z/Series machines are not geared towards floating point operations the way > commodity GPUs, FPGAs, or purposely built BitCoin miners are.
Remember that the main thing you need to do for bitcoin mining are hashing operations. The z machines have the hash algorithms built in to the CPACF hardware in the CPUs, so I don't think floating point operations are particularly relevant. I certainly would not say a z machine is a good thing to go out and buy just to mine bitcoins, but as others have said it would be an interesting use of spare cycles or unused CPUs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
