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Litecoin mining using AWS EC2 and CUDA - Part1

As a crypto currency enthusiast and a developer by profession I was curious to know how the bitcoin or litecoin mining works. This lead me to try out something on my own which is setting up a mining environment.

As you probably know that at this moment mining on your local PC may not be  worth doing it because of the complexity and power requirements of the algorithm. Thus I tried to do mining using one of the GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) machines from AWS ( Amazon Web Service).

In this part of the blog I will explain how to get the GPU from AWS.

I assume you have a AWS account set up and available to login. If not please follow this link to create one. AWS

Once login then go to Services->EC2-> launch Instances -> AWS Marketplace and look for a Ubuntu based HVM image like I have shown below.

On next screen select a 'g3.4xlarge' instance type. Please note about the hourly charges for that instance.

 You need to increase the storage size to 50GB for that instance.

You need to download the new or existing key pair to your local machine. This key pair will be used to login to the new instance from your local machine.

Before trying to login to the new instance you need to edit the security group associated with the instance. Add an inbound rule for SSH on port 22 for source'0.0.0.0/0'.

 Click 'Connect' tab on top of AWS and follow instructions to login to the server.

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