Husband left universiteitscluster 14,000 cores secretly Dogecoins mining

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An employee or student of the American Harvard university has secretly the Odyssey computercluster of the educational institution employed to Dogecoins, a type of cryptovaluta, to mine. After discovery was given the man a permanent ban on the use of onderzoekssystemen.

The Odyssey cluster at Harvard university is a collection of Linux-based systems, with a total of 14,000 cores, in which students and staff can turn for onderzoeksberekeningen. The cluster can in a few hours an amount of work to be done, a regular desktop computer a year would do.

It is unclear how many Dogecoins the man gemined, but the estimate is according to the Harvard Crimson that in a few days mine on the Odyssey in the amount of hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars to achieve. It is not known what the function of the man, but he is now permanently the access to which onderzoekscomputer of Harvard also denied, in an internal e-mail from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Computing of the university.

Originally there were Odyssey from 512 Dell PowerEdge M600 blades each with two Intel Xeon E5410-quadcores were fitted. With that configuration, it estimates Ars Technica that the mining capacity to match with just thirteen AMD Radeon HD 7990 cards. The Odyssey cluster is, however, extended from its original 4096 cores to 14,000-core chip, so the comparison holds, though it is also not clear which part of the cluster, the man has wagered for the mine.

The Dogecoin is a derivative of Litecoin and the cryptovaluta owes its name to a well-known internetmeme.