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You'd have to rent servers with ATI GPUs in them, but nobody rents those.


Is it something special about the ATI GPU, a particular instruction perhaps? If a NVidia GPU would work you can rent an EC2 instance with them from AWS.

http://aws.amazon.com/hpc-applications/


AMD/ATI GPUs happen to be a lot faster for hashing than NVIDIA's. Partly because of a key design difference, and partly because they happen to have a fast 32-bit right rotate instruction.

Details here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU_mines_faster_than_a_CPU...




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