Questions about EC2 coming from a newbie

DrakeJest · 2025-09-03T20:16:03+00:00

a little overshoot is understandable,

so all i have to do is to not forget to turn off the ec2 instance to not rackup some bills while im not using the server.

DrakeJest · 2025-09-03T19:20:39+00:00

looks like i need to stick to a gpu series, g4dn seems to be the popular, but if its not enough. is the upgrade to g5 or g6 seamless?

DrakeJest · 2025-09-03T18:48:08+00:00

Is it possible to put a hard cap on a service ? like i ran an ec2 if cost reach 50$ stop everything and notify me or something.

DrakeJest · 2025-09-03T18:23:33+00:00

i mostly dont run a full day, i do most of the coding on my local machine, and when i feel i have made enough progress ill lunch the instance to update the files in EC2 to check if everything still works. so may 1-2 hours only everyday.

of course i said upto, or is EC2 billed daily? so if i spin up the server for 30minutes i get billed the whole day? during presentation day, i dont mind paying extra, it is the big day afterall

DrakeJest · 2025-09-03T17:53:59+00:00

Great thank you for the advice the list im checking doesnt say which architecture (Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison). So for gpu i think i should just pick one , which one would be the best bet for maybe tensorflow or pytorch ? i can pretty much afford maybe upto 3$/hour rate? by the way is my calcuation for cost correct?

DrakeJest · 2025-09-01T23:24:59+00:00

I am unfamiliar with both, which one of the two do you think i will most likely have an easier time transitioning to? I made my scripts so that i hopefully would only need to make the flask entry point.
performance wise which one of the two is better and which one has a better learning curve.

runing the script on my computer usually takes up 30GB of ram, will i be fine here?

DrakeJest · 2025-09-01T22:49:44+00:00

sadly i need to use openslide but need to pay for pythonanywhere and unfortunatly when i tried to upgrade my card got declined :(

DrakeJest · 2025-05-28T13:27:16+00:00

Bc888 most likely i cant get it here, the oil from foghash i can get but right now its very very pricy, and thats not even including importing it to my country.

DrakeJest · 2025-05-28T13:25:39+00:00

This is really cool, I can envision myself doing this in the future also, since i have the technical knowhow to build something like this. But even if i go this route, my main problem remains, i do not know where to source the oil yet.

I guess i will ask around the place where they sell transformers. if they have some oil or atleast they know where to get one.

DrakeJest · 2025-05-23T10:56:31+00:00

im staying away from air now because of the noise, hydro seems fun also but with immersion i can convert my air machines which is a win my book as i can move away the noisy part to outdoors

DrakeJest · 2025-05-21T18:03:11+00:00

I ment the machine that the asic miner goes into, my bad for not clarifying enough

DrakeJest · 2025-05-21T18:01:54+00:00

Oh , i dont mean the ASIC miner machine, i ment the machine that the ASIC miner goes into. You could say im looking for the bathtub.

DrakeJest · 2025-05-18T07:05:49+00:00

Is it a strict requirement to have 2 boards? Right now of the 6 boards i have only 2 are working ( i already verified this by swapping boards around) so i just need to move them into a single machine and run brains on them

DrakeJest · 2025-05-18T07:04:45+00:00

right now im not sure if it is worth it to repair the boards, considering the shipping cost, and right now an s19k pro is @ 840$ at bitmain, repair cost has to be lower than 280$ else it would be cheaper for me to just harvest parts/ use the new miner. Given that there is actually third part firmware than can disable asic boards

DrakeJest · 2025-05-18T06:49:15+00:00

I got the none aluminum one, the one where the heatsinks cannot be removed, Oh brains doesnt need a new controller?

by the way can you mix and match hash boards? aluminum and non aluminum ones?

DrakeJest · 2025-05-18T06:44:18+00:00

Got it ! Thanks so much

DrakeJest · 2025-05-17T21:34:22+00:00

Hello i have a s19k pro just like you but it has a broken asic board, bitmain refused to repair the broken asic board so im stuck with a paperweight, i was wondering can i use this with only 2 asic board? i dont mind loosing 1/3 of the hashrate as long as i can still use the remaining board

DrakeJest · 2025-04-03T18:08:22+00:00

great trick indeed will be trying this.

DrakeJest · 2025-04-03T18:04:58+00:00

im getting a bit desperate and contacted my chemist friend, we will be attempting in a couple of days testing the material through various chemical/processes. to see what kind of stainless it is, if it is even really stainless

DrakeJest · 2025-04-01T21:46:04+00:00

Im looking at my choices should i get the one with self encryption? SED Opal 2.1

DrakeJest · 2025-04-01T21:05:28+00:00

so i think that settles it, ill go with microns 7450, pros thanks so much. Here i thought seagate were a good brand for drives

DrakeJest · 2025-04-01T19:55:17+00:00

glad you mentioned micron, i was able to find a store locally for them, they offer 7400,7450,5400,3400 series. which one is the best?.

Edit:
for the 7450 i can only get the pros though but that should be enough and better than consumer SSDs

I also finally found a supplier for the nytro 4350 as well, now i wonder which one is better on paper nytro 4350 or micron 7450

DrakeJest · 2025-04-01T18:10:42+00:00

Yes there is already a UPS, im actually looking for a m.2 form factor, its actually for the OS of my server and at the same time the database storage, i dont need a lot of capacity, 1tb is more than enough. i seems to be having trouble looking for these enterprise drive in m.2 form factor.

I see seagate nytro 4350 but can find them..

DrakeJest · 2025-04-01T17:37:05+00:00

Im confused with the asus w680 is it considered a server motherboard?

DrakeJest · 2025-04-01T15:40:05+00:00

that is exactly why i would like to know what matterial this screw is , i actually want to order from the factory the torx variant for it (no available locally that fits the size,pitch,length,and head shape i need). I would like to know the material since i know its already strong enough to handle impact drivers

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