A college student by University of Harvard has violated Super Supercomputer (with 14.000 cores) of Ivy League to use it for Dogecoins mining.
According to The Harvard Crimson, a student was punished with a ban on access to all computer research laboratories and university systems when it was discovered that he had programmed the Odyssey supercomputer to do Dogecoins mining.
The Odyssey supercomputer has Intel Xeon processors and is ranked among the top supercomputers 500. The system has 14.000 cores and belongs to Harvard's Research Computing office as a high-performance cluster with Linux for researchers.
According to a copy of an internal email posted on Reddit when the incident was discovered, the unusual activity was discovered by a researcher, whoeffectshey to the administrators who soon discovered it program for Dogecoin mining.
"Κάθε συμμετοχή, σε ψηφιακές λειτουργίες εξόρυξης ή διαγωνισμούς για κέρδος που χρησιμοποιεί περιουσιακά data του Harvard είναι αυστηρά απαγορευμένη για προφανείς λόγους," αναφέρει το μήνυμα.
"Στην πραγματικότητα, όλες οι δραστηριότητες που χρησιμοποιούν τους κοινούς μας πόρους για κάθε μη επιστημονικό σκοπό που έχει ως αποτέλεσμα προσωπικό κέρδος είναι επίσης ρητά απαγορευμένες."
The open source crypto currency, Dogecoin, is based on the Litecoin format and is exchanged at approximately 0,0012 dollars, or 002 MBTC.
