After the computer game, the scientists are also having a lot of trouble with the creation of graphics cards due to the crypto money miners. Researchers trying to get radio signals from the stars and from the distance need the latest GPU equipment for data processing equipment. According to recent reports, leading producers can offer a special graphics card for the mining industry to increase supply in the market
GPU is very important for handling space research
Radio-astronomers working on the SETI (Alien Intelligence Survey) projects said they need more GPUs to replace their equipment. According to the BBC, scientists want to expand the operations of the two observatories, but they can not adequately supply them with strong hands. Some telescopes require about 100 graphics cards to handle large listening data. Requests for graphics processing units have gained momentum in recent months. Crypto money miners are held accountable for this scarcity because of their extreme claims. Investors are collectively buying the latest GPUs on the market in order to be able to perform more cryptographic transactions and generate higher profits. These cards are usually used for digging subcoils such as Ethereum and Monero. Bitcoin mining requires a certain processing capacity and is carried out with special equipment. "We want to use the latest GPUs and we can not get them," said Dan Werthimer, a scientist at the University of California at Berkeley SETI Research Center. Scientists are trying to increase the analysis capacity of equipment installed in two SETI observatory
Crypto money miners are overloading GPU
Green Bank is a bank operating in West Virginia and Parkes, Australia. But their work is getting into the business because of the GPU sector. Dan Werthimer, the company's official, said they had communicated with the vendors to buy the equipment, but said they were not in their possession.
The supply pressure on the GPU market hit other astronomers as well. A team of scientists looking for the evidence of the oldest stars in the world has been shocked by the fact that graphics cards have doubled in price in recent years. Researchers studying the Reionisation Array (Hera) Hydrogen Age in South Africa have received a donation from the US National Science Foundation to develop the telescope, but now they realize they can get less equipment with that money.
Hera is a joint project of USA, UK and South Africa. It uses GPU equipment to combine data from many small wireless telescopes to offer a much wider field of view. The price of the processing units doubled in three months and became 1000 USD. "We buy a lot of things, and it will cost about $ 32,000 more, compared to two months ago," said Aaron Parsons, a professor at UC Berkeley. The team will have to use part of the emergency budget to get all the cards that it needs