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Title: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: xurious on September 21, 2016, 06:43:54 PM
Marlin - OpenCL/CUDA miner for SiaMining.com
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Up to date info and download links: https://siamining.com/marlin

Info:

Marlin is a new Stratum miner for OpenCL and CUDA devices developed by SiaMining. It is designed to be fast, lightweight and easy to use.

Notable features:

  • Native Stratum support with SiaMining.com.
  • Lightning fast with both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
  • Multiple built-in kernels.
  • Kernel and intensity can be set separately for each device.
  • Detection of hardware errors.
  • Detailed share reporting, including difficulties and reject reasons.
  • Throttling support

Usage:

Code:
marlin -u YourPayoutAddress.WorkerName -I 28

  • By default, the miner connects to SiaMining.com's Stratum server.
  • By default, all OpenCL GPUs are used. To use a specific subset of OpenCL devices, use option -d with a comma-separated list of device IDs. The full list of IDs is printed every time the miner is started. Note that Nvidia GPUs should be listed twice, once as CUDA and once as OpenCL devices; the OpenCL interface is disabled by default for these GPUs, as CUDA usually gives better results.
  • The default intensity is 24. You can use option -I to adjust it. You can also specify a different intensity for each device by passing a comma-separated list.
  • You can use option -K to use a kernel other than the default one; like with intensity, you can specify a different kernel for each device by passing a comma-separated list. Run a benchmark with option --benchmark to see all available kernels for a given device.

To see all supported options:

Code:
marlin -h


Example performance:

RX 480 - 1185 core, 2000 mem: Marlin v1: 945MH/s vs SGMiner: 904MH/s GoMiner mod3: 845MH/s.
GTX 960 - 1303 core, 3004 mem: Marlin v1 m2p4: 657MH/s , CCMiner: 627MH/s
GTX 760 - 1162 core, 3004 mem: Marlin v1: 384MH/s, CCminer 263MH/s

Example screenshot of the 760:

https://i.imgur.com/q9ivBI4.png


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: bathrobehero on September 21, 2016, 06:45:41 PM
Lightning fast with both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.

Can we get some actual screenshots or examples how fast it is with a couple of cards?


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: xurious on September 21, 2016, 07:11:52 PM
Lightning fast with both AMD and Nvidia GPUs.

Can we get some actual screenshots or examples how fast it is with a couple of cards?

I added the one card I have on hand (rx 480 while at work). I'll add more as time permits the testing again over the next few days.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: t2yax on September 22, 2016, 09:51:34 AM
it doesn't work for cuda 2.1 card,

http://prntscr.com/ckyrjx


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: adaseb on September 22, 2016, 11:13:35 AM
r9 290 gets 1147MH/s with 1050/1250

Most however just dual mine this coin with Claymore since its more profitable.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: xurious on September 22, 2016, 01:31:02 PM
it doesn't work for cuda 2.1 card,

http://prntscr.com/ckyrjx

Could you provide more specs? I've verified it works on an NVS 4200m. While not an amazing chip, it's certainly cuda 2.1, equivalent to a "GT 520m."

r9 290 gets 1147MH/s with 1050/1250

Most however just dual mine this coin with Claymore since its more profitable.

For the rest, Marlin is a great miner that offers significant speed advantages over some of the others.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: t2yax on September 22, 2016, 02:43:15 PM
it doesn't work for cuda 2.1 card,

http://prntscr.com/ckyrjx

Could you provide more specs? I've verified it works on an NVS 4200m. While not an amazing chip, it's certainly cuda 2.1, equivalent to a "GT 520m."

r9 290 gets 1147MH/s with 1050/1250

Most however just dual mine this coin with Claymore since its more profitable.

For the rest, Marlin is a great miner that offers significant speed advantages over some of the others.

after it i tested with pool and it worked,that was benchmark.and card was geforce gt 720m


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: xurious on September 22, 2016, 03:04:31 PM
it doesn't work for cuda 2.1 card,

http://prntscr.com/ckyrjx

Could you provide more specs? I've verified it works on an NVS 4200m. While not an amazing chip, it's certainly cuda 2.1, equivalent to a "GT 520m."

r9 290 gets 1147MH/s with 1050/1250

Most however just dual mine this coin with Claymore since its more profitable.

For the rest, Marlin is a great miner that offers significant speed advantages over some of the others.

after it i tested with pool and it worked,that was benchmark.and card was geforce gt 720m

Thanks, I'll look into the benchmark on the nvs I have, and verify on a 740.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: Eyedol-X on September 23, 2016, 12:51:16 PM
I can report 55mh using the iGPU on an Intel i7-5775c.

Not much I know but it's better than nothing when the GPU's in the system and the processor are mining other coins :D


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: megacrypto on September 23, 2016, 06:12:04 PM
just started trying it .... will give it a shot for the day, but so far in my 10 or days mining limited experience ... as simple as the Minergate windows app ... but on linux ... :)

Code:
2016/09/23 20:09:12 Starting marlin 1.0.0
2016/09/23 20:09:12 OpenCL: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
2016/09/23 20:09:12  [0] GPU: Spectre
2016/09/23 20:09:12  [1] GPU: Cedar
2016/09/23 20:09:12  [2] CPU: AMD PRO A8-8650B R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G
2016/09/23 20:09:12 Connecting to siamining.com:3333...
2016/09/23 20:09:12 [0] Initializing Spectre
2016/09/23 20:09:12 [1] Initializing Cedar
2016/09/23 20:09:13 Difficulty set to 4.2G
2016/09/23 20:09:13 New block ...3e4f76f2 detected, difficulty 13P
2016/09/23 20:09:13 Authentication successful
2016/09/23 20:09:15 [1] Initialized, work size 16777216
2016/09/23 20:09:17 [0] Initialized, work size 16777216
2016/09/23 20:09:49 Difficulty set to 536M
2016/09/23 20:09:51 [0] Accepted 6088850a D:611M/536M  121.4 MH/s
2016/09/23 20:09:56 [1] Accepted 95f2ed04 D:564M/536M   13.4 MH/s
2016/09/23 20:10:12 A:2 R:0 E:0 0:124.5 1:13.4 138.0/137.2 MH/s
2016/09/23 20:10:15 [0] Accepted 6132453c D:1.0G/536M  121.3 MH/s
2016/09/23 20:10:15 [0] Accepted ccffa33e D:1.8G/536M  124.5 MH/s
2016/09/23 20:10:15 [0] Accepted 45aedb3e D:897M/536M  124.5 MH/s
2016/09/23 20:10:16 [0] Accepted 91193248 D:653M/536M  124.4 MH/s
2016/09/23 20:10:23 [0] Accepted f4fd2c79 D:1.2G/536M  124.3 MH/s
2016/09/23 20:10:23 [0] Accepted 99033a79 D:679M/536M  124.3 MH/s


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: Kompik on September 23, 2016, 10:28:43 PM
Anyone knows what is the expected hashrate for 1070 OC?


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: bathrobehero on October 11, 2016, 04:38:23 PM
Anyone knows what is the expected hashrate for 1070 OC?

I'm curious as well.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: iom on October 11, 2016, 07:04:30 PM
Gigabyte 1070 G1 +150 core ~ 1750mh/s


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: jimmykl on June 08, 2017, 05:26:22 AM
Gigabyte 1070 Mini ITX OC +255 core ~ 1815MH/s (using m2p2 kernel)


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: BadAstroZA on June 09, 2017, 07:53:58 AM
I've been running this on my EVGA GTX 970 with Intensity = 25 and getting a pretty consistent 838.8 MH/s.

Is there some way to find the optimal intensity, or is it only trial and error? Is there any dynamic option so that marlin checks itself and settles on the intensity that gets the best results?


EDIT:
So I ran with --benchmark and it appears that the m2p4 kernel is best for me, at intensity 27.

Running for a few minutes now and it's up to 894.7MH/s even though the benchmark returned 1016.7. Still a decent improvement. :)


Various results after a few minutes:
default kernel at intensity 25: 838.8 MH/s

m2p2 kernel at intensity 27: 888.8 MH/s (most auspicious if you are Chinese!)
m2p2 kernel at intensity 24: 883.0 MH/s

m2p4 kernel at intensity 30:897.0MH/s (GPU temp at 82 and desktop basically unusable)
m2p4 kernel at intensity 27:894.7MH/s
m2p4 kernel at intensity 24:883.0MH/s

x1p1 kernel at intensity 27: 888.8MH/s
x1p1 kernel at intensity 25: 883.0MH/s

So all things considered, it looks like m2p4 it is.

Would love to hear some recommendations on how to determine the best intensity. Thanks.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: 2econd on June 09, 2017, 08:01:51 AM
No fees apply? That's rather honorable! Especially in these times where everyone is pickpocketing like their lives depend on it


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: bathrobehero on June 09, 2017, 08:09:33 AM
I've been running this on my EVGA GTX 970 with Intensity = 25 and getting a pretty consistent 838.8 MH/s.

Is there some way to find the optimal intensity, or is it only trial and error? Is there any dynamic option so that marlin checks itself and settles on the intensity that gets the best results?


EDIT:
So I ran with --benchmark and it appears that the m2p4 kernel is best, at intensity 27?

Running for a few minutes now and it's up to 894.7MH/s even though the benchmark returned 1016.7. Still a decent improvement. :)

I get 1090 Mh/s per 970 with -I 29 or 30 and with -K m2p4.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: BadAstroZA on June 09, 2017, 08:14:50 AM
You're definitely doing better than me, bathrobehero.

Which specific 970 do you have? Is it overclocked? Mine is all factory settings.

(Edited my post with more results)



No fees apply? That's rather honorable! Especially in these times where everyone is pickpocketing like their lives depend on it

So no fees at all for marlin itself?

What are the fees for the pool - 3%? Does xurious get something for that (I hope so)?


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: bathrobehero on June 09, 2017, 08:18:13 AM
You're definitely doing better than me, bathrobehero.

Which specific 970 do you have? Is it overclocked? Mine is all factory settings.

(Edited my post with more results)

Gigabyte OC cards, +80 Mhz but 80% power limit.

But these cards on risers, if you have a monitor attached to it mining will be slower.

Edit: additional speeds I get:

750Ti: 365 Mh/s (m2p2)
1070: 1690 Mh/s (m2p4)
1080Ti: 2920 Mh/s (m2p2x32)

But all these cards are heavily power limited (70-80%)

The problem is with these speeds Sia is half as profitable than some other coins.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: BadAstroZA on June 09, 2017, 08:48:04 AM


I've done a small overclock of 82 to the core clock and 164 to the mem clock and getting 914.5MH/s now,with m2p4 at I=29 . A nice boost.

Temp is still 80 with fan speed at 64%.

Any dangers to this?



But all these cards are heavily power limited (70-80%)

The problem is with these speeds Sia is half as profitable than some other coins.

I'm pretty new and only learning. My goal is to reach 1000 Sia coins, then get the payout and move on to something else. What coins are you mining with your rig, considering that Sia is only half as profitable?


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: bathrobehero on June 09, 2017, 08:49:58 AM
I've done a small overclock of 82 to the core clock and 164 to the mem clock and getting 914.5MH/s now,with m2p4 at I=29 . A nice boost.

Temp is still 80 with fan speed at 64%.

Any dangers to this?

I much prefer a cooler temperature than slow fans. I have a maximum temperature target of 72°C set up with 100% fan speed a the end of the curve.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: BadAstroZA on June 09, 2017, 09:05:46 AM
Using MSI Afterburner, I'm now at

Power Limit % 105
Temp Limit 85
Core Clock +82
Mem Clock +164
Fan Speed 76% (on Auto)

Temperature is at 82C.


Hashing a consistent 1050.6MH/s
.

Do you recommend I turn off auto fan and manually churn it up a little to get that temp down?
I've also opened the side of the desktop case to give it some better airflow.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: bathrobehero on June 09, 2017, 09:08:14 AM
Using MSI Afterburner, I'm now at

Power Limit % 105
Temp Limit 85
Core Clock +82
Mem Clock +164
Fan Speed 76% (on Auto)

Temperature is at 82C.


Hashing a consistent 1050.6MH/s
.

Do you recommend I turn off auto fan and manually churn it up a little to get that temp down?
I've also opened the side of the desktop case to give it some better airflow.

I would, I don't think temps in the 80°C or even high 70's are good.

But every miner have different preferences.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: BadAstroZA on June 09, 2017, 09:21:25 AM
Cool, thanks for all the advice.

What coins are you mining with your rig, considering that Sia is only "half as profitable" as you say?


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: nuvominer on June 09, 2017, 02:26:39 PM
Does not start. Get command window for a split second, and then nothing.

Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1

Win 10

i5-6600k


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: BadAstroZA on June 09, 2017, 02:33:34 PM
Have you written a batch file?

Write "pause" on the final line to see why it's closing.

How new are you to this? Did you follow the siamining help guide step by step? I did and it worked perfectly.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: nuvominer on June 09, 2017, 03:43:02 PM
Yes, I setup the .bat as instructed. Rather new at this.

I will try writing pause and see what happens.

Thanks

Edit: :: Your Payout Address.
SET address= I already put my address here
:: Worker Name.
SET worker=whitey
:: Intensity. Lower values may be better for normal desktop usage.
SET intensity=28
::
marlin.exe -u %address%.%worker% -I %intensity% pause


Like this? Still crashes


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: bathrobehero on June 09, 2017, 04:19:26 PM
marlin.exe -H eu.siamining.com:3333 -d 1,2,3,4,5 -K m2p2 -I 29 -u address
pause


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: zvonimir on July 03, 2017, 08:13:12 PM
Hello guys,
I need help.When I start marlin miner (marlin.exe) I get this message.If someone can help me...
LINK IMAGE:    https://prnt.sc/fr7xff


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: lankyman on July 03, 2017, 08:36:59 PM
Hi, such a stupid question maybe because i am stupid also, but i have run SiaCoin Gui and then i have allowed it to Synchronize.
I do not understand it , but every time i click on receive address it shows me a new unique address to use, i dont understand this?
So, in my miner batch file i dont understand what address to put... this is the weirdest wallet i have used.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: JayT22 on October 16, 2017, 05:13:47 AM
i got with marlin and a gtx980ti about 1600mhs.
it took about 4days without oc the gpu to reach the payout.
i think its cheaper to buy the siacoins than mining with a single gpu the power cost are higher than the 500sia coins worth from  payout at my pool.
what do u think about sia mining with the difficulty we have now?


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: szafa on October 16, 2017, 05:33:23 AM
How much dump sia?


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: rwtrader on November 20, 2017, 02:50:03 AM
I notice an ID for the CPU.  Can you use this to mine as well?  If so, how?  Thanks


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: Digital Drug Lord on January 20, 2018, 04:31:44 AM
can I run marlin and then run say an ether miner? or do I have to use claymore duel miner for that?


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: CryptoWatcher420 on January 20, 2018, 05:48:58 AM
this miner isn't going to make it long since there are now asics that mine siacoin


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: Digital Drug Lord on January 20, 2018, 05:20:01 PM
this miner isn't going to make it long since there are now asics that mine siacoin

is this why when I mine on the pool I get very little coins?

why do all these pools have a minimum payout of 500 to 1000 SC?

thats alot of work to do without getting paid it would take me 1 whole month with my 1070 to mine 500 coins


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: xurious on January 20, 2018, 08:27:52 PM
this miner isn't going to make it long since there are now asics that mine siacoin

is this why when I mine on the pool I get very little coins?

why do all these pools have a minimum payout of 500 to 1000 SC?

thats alot of work to do without getting paid it would take me 1 whole month with my 1070 to mine 500 coins

Difficulty is 3x of what it should be (which is reducing your income by a 2/3rds.)

Plus the difficulty for the whole network is going up, and will go up as ASICs are landing.


Title: Re: Marlin - SiaCoin OpenCL/CUDA Miner - CPU/GPU/iGPU
Post by: xurious on January 20, 2018, 08:28:30 PM
can I run marlin and then run say an ether miner? or do I have to use claymore duel miner for that?

Claymore is a dual miner for ETH + SIA.

Marlin is for solo SC only.