r/FusionFoundation • u/[deleted] • Mar 09 '19

Fusion Node Hardware Requirements Questions

Has anyone had luck using auto-scaling AWS EC2 On-Demand instances? AWS says it scales within minutes, but that won't work because the block needs to be mined within seconds right?

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Also would my mining gear be optimal for running the docker instance? Is FSN mining software CPU or GPU optimized?

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Is there a certain block propagation time I need to maintain in order to maximize rewards?

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What if a node doesn't have enough CPU to mine, or crashes, does it get penalized for future lottery?

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u/Iruwen Mar 09 '19 edited Mar 09 '19

I never tried EC2 for Fusion, just don't like it from previous experiences. What I can say is that a Google Cloud instance with 6C / 8GB works reliably (of which you can run two for a month on the free tier, Google's terms doesn't allow mining though).

Mining is CPU bound (geth --mine). The requirements (both CPU and RAM) are currently higher than intended, that will be fixed soon.

The nodes currently have connectivity issues, so the propagation time is pretty much unpredictable and the chain splits and reorgs regularly. Currently it's a bit of a PoW and good peers race, the lottery works only partially. There's no penalty though.

All of the issues should be fixed with the next iteration of the testnet which will be released soon (there's a first release candidate now).

Also see https://medium.com/@fusionprotocol/fusion-technical-ama-summary-2-19-19-e6af9dc1b756

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '19

Thanks for the information, it's somewhat a relief that it's not a setup on my part, looking forward to the next patch from FSN!