Just sharing about a little experiment that I started last night:
I have one droplet that is doing 2 plots in parallel, and one droplet that is doing just 1. They have both completed a single cycle and I’ve downloaded 3 plots to a local harvester (direct download to the NAS).
By my calculations, it will cost about $3 per plot, which I think compares pretty well with some available plotting services.
Thoughts? Questions? I’m just trying to get some additional plotting velocity, as I have a lot of empty space to fill.
Hmm, $3 per plot. So that means a modest old 10th gen 6c/12t NUC with 2 drives (one SATA, one M.2) is earning me … 6 simultaneous plots at ~27000 secs each… or 7.5 hours… that’s 3.2 plots per day times 6 = 19 plots or $57.60 per day in plot value?
That means it’d pay for itself in 10 days? easily within 20 days?
If someone was going to pay you for the plots, yeah I guess so…
You’re getting 6 simultaneous plots from one of those nucs at 27k seconds each?.. wow… i’m only getting 4-5 parallel at ~34k seconds. I guess it’s not the same setup as that one guide, since I’m only using the m.2.
I used the SATA SSD and the M.2. It’s crazy not to use both I/O paths available to you. SATA SSDs are no match for a fast M.2 drive, but they ain’t exactly chopped liver, either!
(Needless to say, I kinda strongly disagree with the way that guide was written, but hey, people gonna people.)
I wish I had picked your brain about it, because plotting speed is what’s holding me back. Even with 8 different types of machines going (locally), I’m still only in the 4-5TB/day range. I have another machine coming this week which will hopefully do ~6-8/parallel.
This cloud method doesn’t scale, there’s a limit to how many plots I can feasibly download… these 2 are already producing ~7/day and I think that’s about the most I’m going to do.
Just an update here… so I’ve been doing this for 12 days, have downloaded an extra 90 plots at a cost of $270, pretty much exactly what I estimated… $3/plot.
Echoing what I said above, I don’t think it scales to download much more than this at home, I imagine Comcast might have an issue with me… but when I expand into a local data center, I might be able to quadruple this setup to gain more speed.
If any one interested, I have couple VMs available for rent in our lab, would be plotting a lot faster.
12 CPUs 32Gb Ram, 1Tb SSDs in Raid0, and 5Tb Hdd.
18 Cpus 32Gb Ram, 2Tb NVME, and 5Tb Hdd.
