Distributed-BitCoin-Miner

An Elixir CLI application to generate bitcoins in a distributed system

Group Members:

1. Jahin Majumdar(UFID 69139840)
2. Spandita Gujrati (UFID 81858145)

1. Size of Work Unit:

We have used number of actors = (No. of cores in the machine*2)+2 for the most effective usage.
Each worker gets equal of of work at every instant. The size of our work unit is determined by regulating the actors and determining the ideal distribution of subproblems for a fixed number of workers. The bitcoins are mined continuously by workers which are supervised by a boss to keep track of the process. Even as separate machines are added as workers, the work size is distributed equally.

2. Results for k = 4 (first 5 results included)

1. jahinm;YKEtB            00003280EA1C97257B873A7BB07801B2223A1869A3BB4B6B7A95E923F813521B
2. jahinm;cPJrP            0000F962592026C0F69971EAF997E28A58EA2F3243EB161986D0D31C93F6A632
3. jahinm;nRwNN         0000F649409F5AB5BC4D8F8CB2DA7C4B70E0E4FC9A2243E72D9E79BF51BD0626
4. jahinm;WYXsi           0000AB630B4E4B4B1628C67C7BCB870AB8391698BC44C80EE0A67ADA68B0F842
5. jahinm;v05XY           000068384E096869A8A651A56E838C6E3316BBBB447735E9C427831C9925D49B

3. Running time for k = 5 (4-core machine)

1. real 1m3.688s
2. user 2m55.792s
3. sys 0m45.779s
4. Ratio of (user+sys)/real = ~3.48

4. Coin with max k = 6

jahinm;KSTtV           0000003622C22D62B58FCC29C6DBB8A04F1158945EF3FB5EF2B7E0F3DC0AF7A8

5. Largest Number of working machines used to run code: 4

6. Note:

We have included a hack for Windows machines to make sure they pick up the correct IP address instead of locaclhost.