Plotting and farming in the cloud

[jacobcs]

I thought I’d highlight this other post that I did recently as it seems relevant.

Tips for Chia harvesting using S3-compatible APIs

I’m the CTO of an S3-compatible cloud storage company and we have had several customers reach out to us about using our service for chia harvesting. I’ve compiled some tips for them and felt like I’d share them here in case anyone else finds them useful. Use software to mount the cloud storage that has a small overfetch setting. Some of them fetch 5 or 10 MB at a time and Chia doesn’t need to fetch that much on its random seeks when solving challenges. Goofys seems to do pretty well with the d…

Especially the PR that I mentioned in tip #4 can take your 10-20s time to solve a challenge down to 1-2 seconds. I imagine that change will be released in 1.1.7.