Running a bitcoin miner on remote systems using Akka Actors

Before running the scripts, the ip address of the machine needs to be edited in configuration of the server file(Master.fsx). The same ip needs to be used afterwards for further process.

• To run the server:

  • Command:

    dotnet fsi Master.fsx k

  • where k = 3,4,5...

• To run the workers:

  • Command:

    dotnet fsi Worker.fsx ipAddress

  • where ipAddress = ipAddress of the system where the server runs.

• Size of the Work Unit:

  • The worker gets a subproblem by randomly generating a UUID for itself once registered with master/server. For mining bitcoins the server generates input strings using the UUID generating function. For e.g.: ef606270-a10d-4da5-a594-273b040e4e43. The server starts working on this string and as workers keep spawning the functionality is distributed.

• The result for running the program for input 4

  

• Strings and mined bit coins of size 4:

  • anmol.patil;2e26a9b3-c64b-4df4-8db9-c6d1a622918b 000067B59AF97476DAD78FBFCECC902268684918C8EA53D21DB2E6E19629576C
  • anmol.patil;4408a8e4-bcfd-428e-8bfa-ea4040d1ede0 0000A6B86D3E7A9720EB02FF710CEF773F206B9F76E7E89FAB4AD143BF70DDD1
  • anmol.patil;5a06b42b-2e73-4c9e-b569-247d0a7d6145 00006B3A0C23EFB456C330A9A5343F7D8886022798DCE711787E89F2D3D168BA
  • anmol.patil;619af6c4-94a6-42c2-bad4-7219d387284e 000073EEF319584EA3960DD7504654A3DF2707B3138B8783206A18DC6D73205D
  • anmol.patil;5feaa926-cc96-4e86-9aac-bb6af9674ba1 00006EC201B807592326AC5E6A3A0E44E86F0873DA2ADB533B59E5FDA7C95B78

• The running time for above size:

  • Calculations

    CPU time = 5.204 seconds
    Real time = 2.3 seconds
    Ratio = (CPU time) / (Real time) = 5.204/2.3 = 2.26

• The coin with most 0's mined 00000005F405E7CDBC88EC9CA6E94BC5CDB2D38FA69CD02052F44492173736CE

• The largest number of working machines I was able to run my code with:

  • The program is scalable. Maximum number of machines used to test scalability = 4. \
  • The configuration looks like this: \

    1 Server Node with 3 actors and 3 Worker Nodes with 4 actors each

• Bitcoins found:

  • anmol.patil;ef606270-a10d-4da5-a594-273b040e4e43 00000005F405E7CDBC88EC9CA6E94BC5CDB2D38FA69CD02052F44492173736CE
  • anmol.patil;eea53e29-193e-43a4-8a85-ee0b2a538e11 0000004D1E6A1188BA98AF5804B3A1336683B239FC541867588C4E87AB932440