Hot damn that worked!



Best of both worlds!

1. Take note of the current Sol/S you're getting.  My guess would be around 190 on average per card.
2. Take note of current power consumption.  (got a KillAWatt?)
3. Power down and remove 1 GPU
4. Power back up and once it has been mining for a bit, take another power reading.

My guess is you will drop about 80 watts.  So your Sol/W is around 2.4 Sol/W.  The 1050Ti's are not very efficient compared to the higher end models, especially the 1070Ti.

The newer Nvidia drivers no longer support reporting power usage with 1050Ti's due to a known issue with the power reporting circuitry on those cards.

I spoke too soon.  I did find where I can add the additional command line option under "Tuning" for a specific rig.  So I added it here and I can see where the dstm miner is started with both telemetry calls:



But alas, having that 2nd telemetry command breaks it for HIVE as it is no longer able to pull the hash rate:



As soon as I backed out that 2nd telemetry entry, HIVE started being able to see the hash rate again.  I also tried using a different port for the 2nd telemetry entry, but it still broke HIVE.  So it seems to me that when a 2nd telemetry entry is added, it replaces the first one.

Thanks, that did the trick!  Of course this means I'll have to create a "wallet" for each of my rigs, so that the IP on the additional command line option matches the rig's IP.  Perhaps there's another way to pass a custom miner command to a specific rig that does not require setting it in the "wallet"?

Man that sucks.  So I'll never be able to monitor my rigs from Awesome Miner?  Not that Hive OS doesn't have a great built-in monitor, but I really like how Awesome Miner shows you the actual coins and earnings in dollars/day per rig.  And the email notifications.  And I can see the difficulty by coin at a glance.

Could this be it?

https://8020.net/shop/20-2020.html

Yep, those are the ones I use!  Really like the small size that prevents "accidents" as you say.

I'm playing with it now.  Got one test rig going.  Setup very easy once you realize that "wallet" is really a lot more than that.

Only issue I have is I can't figure out what telemetry port HiveOS is using for dstm.  (I'd like to monitor the rig in Awesome Miner as well for right now)

First impression is very positive!

I don't run AMD anything, but here are some real numbers for Intel CPU's from like right now:



Argon - 2x E5-2660 v4 ES (14 cores)
Brama - 1x E5-2683 v3 ES (14 cores)
Cerebus - 1x E5-2683 v3 (14 cores)
miner05 - E5-2630L v3 (8 cores)
miner06 - 6850K (6 cores)

The first 3 are media servers / Burst miners that I have on Cryptonight since it doesn't impact their "day jobs".  The other 2 are GPU miners that happen to have decent CPU's in them.

So a little over $5.50/day for something just sitting around anyway isn't bad.  I paid about $325 for each of the 14 core processors from eBay (Japan) over the last 12 months or so.  They have pretty much all ROI'ed at this point.

I'm up to 15 GPU rigs and 2 S9's.

I started out using nvOC, but the lack of central management really started bothering me once I got past 10 rigs.

So I got Awesome Miner and played with it for a while and purchased a license good for 20 miners.  At first I kept the rigs themselves on nvOC (Ubuntu) and then configured each miner in Awesome Miner as an external miner.  In this mode, Awesome Miner can only monitor the rigs and not actually change coins, or OC settings or anything like that.

Next I started to convert my rigs over to Windows, which meant getting more powerful CPU's and larger SSD's for some of my rigs.  It was a pain, but once done, I now had full control over all the rigs and could switch pools/coins with a couple of clicks across some or all miners.  The dashboards are very nice looking and I'm able to apply OC setting on a large scale.   I also like that Awesome Miner can manage my S9's.  Granted I only have 2 of those and they pretty much mind their own business, but having all my profit generating devices in a single dashboard is kinda cool.  I also have some servers with powerful 14 core CPU's that produce a decent return on Cryptonight.  I can manage those within Awesome Miner as well.

Then a couple of days ago I decided to upgrade nvidia video drivers on all the rigs and what a royal pain that was across 15 windows boxes.  Some of them didn't take and I had to haul a monitor around to connect to them to see what was going on.  This was the case on my Onda and Colorful boards, and one of my Asus PRIME Z270A boards too (this particular one had 9 1080Ti's on it).

So I decided to check out SMOS, and I'm impressed with it so far.  It is a lot more limited in functionality compared to Awesome Miner, but the fact that the actual rigs are running Ubuntu over windows is a huge plus.  I don't like that the only control option is via the cloud dashboard.  I wish there was an option to run it on a local server.  I can VPN into my network from anywhere if need be.  The SMOS dashboard is no where near as comprehensive as what you can do in Awesome Miner, but it covers the basics.

To me the perfect system would be a feature rich front end like Awesome Miner, with linux based backend GPU rigs.

Next time I go on vacation, all my rigs will be on SMOS, that's for sure.  To switch I just pull the Windows SSD, insert SMOS USB, switch mobo to use internal graphics, and off I go.  Going back to windows is a simple matter of reversing the process.

Just started playing around with smos over the last couple of days.

At first when I tried to ssh to the rigs, I was not able to get to them.  After a bit of digging, I realized that they all get the hostname 'simplerminer' and I have to ssh using ip.

Would it not make sense that the name assigned to each rig in the dashboard, is pushed down to /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts of each rig?

Not a biggie, but it makes ssh'ing into rigs a lot easier if I can use the rig name instead of the IP.

That minor gripe aside, I'm very impressed with how, well simple, it is to get up and running!

Keep up the good work!

I moved cards around today in my Octominer.  I went from this config:

0 Zotac 1070 Mini
1 MSI 1070 Sea Hawk X (hybrid)
2 Nvidia 1070 FE
3 MSI 1070 Sea Hawk X (hybrid)
4 MSI 1070Ti Aero
5 EVGA 1070 FTW Hybrid
6 MSI 1070Ti Aero
7 EVGA 1070 FTW Hybrid

Which worked great with no issues.

My new config is:

0 Zotac 1070 Mini
1 Nvidia 1070 FE
2 Nvidia 1070 FE
3 EVGA 1070 SC ACX 3.0 (5173)
4 EVGA 1070 SC ACX 3.0 (5173)
5 EVGA 1070 SC ACX 3.0 (5173)
6 EVGA 1070 SC iCX (6173)
7 EVGA 1070 SC2 iCX (6573)

For the life of me, I can't get the EVGA SC 6173 working.  This GPU works fine in the rig I pulled it from.

The problem follows the card, not the slot.  I have moved the cards around, only the 6173 won't work.

I booted into Ubuntu 16.04 (nvOC), exact same issue.

So this is the trouble card:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b3658/evga-gtx-1070-sc-acx-3-0

Anyone else run this card yet on the Octominer board?  Seems odd that it would not like this one card?

I dropped the 6173 into another rig I just build.  Works fine.

Go figure...

I'm up and running with 8 cards under windows with no issues.  I never did anything in the BIOS except tell it to boot from USB the first time to do the windows install.  I downloaded the latest ISO directly from Microsoft, stripped out all the bloat to make a light "miner" version.  I then installed into 120GB Msata from USB using the built in VGA port.  Once it was installed, I let it go out and grab all the latest updates.

I then installed a single GPU and installed the latest Nvidia drivers (all done with VGA monitor still connected to the mobo).  Once that was done, I shut down and added 7 more cards and started back up again.  It took Windows about 20 minutes to properly see and load the drivers for those additional 7 GPUs.  Once that was done, I installed Afterburner, Afterburner Remote Server and Awesome Miner Remote Agent.

Went into Awesome Miner on my workstation, added the Octominer, and away I went mining.  Very smooth from start to finish.

Hashing away with nice low temps despite running with no lid:



And some pics of the rig.  I'm running a 2400W Delta PSU temporarily until I decide what I want to put in it.  I'm also running 4 hybrid 1070's for right now since they needed a home and I'm still waiting on some other mobos to come in.  It will be converted to all air cards soon, but I didn't want to leave any cards sitting around not hashing.  





I'm overall pleased with the Octominer, but do have a few minor gripes as follows:

1. The silk screen showing the front panel pin-out is obscured by the mSATA device.
2. The polarity for the front panel HDD header is missing.
3. The Delta fans are nice 4 wire (PWM control), but both the RPM and PWM wires were cut off, leaving only GND and 12V.  It would have been nice if those wires had been left intact in case I wanted to ever use those fans in another application.  A 4-pin fan header to 2-pin Molex plug would have been ideal.
4. There is no provisionings for screwing down the Octominer server PSU within the "ATX PSU" space.

I know, very miner gripes, but I wanted to mention them.   The key thing is that the board itself is very stable and works well, even with Windows.  The board was able to to detect my Logitech USB Bluetooth dongle for my wireless keyboard and mouse, something that I cannot say was true with either my Onda nor Coloful mobos.

I don't see how the front panel power button is going to do anything when the only thing connecting the server PSU to the motherboard are 2 couple of 6-pin power connectors.

At any rate, I pulled out one of my spare Delta 2400W PSU's and the board posted and I'm installing the OS now.



It ain't pretty, but you gotta do what you gotta do.  

Octominer has already reached out regarding the PSU.  In fact I just got done chatting with Harry and he has already issued me a refund for the PSU and the portion of the shipping charge that was related to the PSU.  Amazing service!  Fortunately I had another PSU I could use until I decide what I want to do long term.  I have until after the Chinese New Year to make up my mind.

Just got mine.

Is there a trick to powering up the server (non ATX) power supply?  Mine is completely dead.  I tried a couple of different power cords, so that's not it.

Looks like BTC is about to go above $10k again.  So much for GPU prices coming back down anytime soon...

They also make ones with a mini-usb plug like this:



I got a couple of them.  With 008C revision risers no less.

I have 3 rigs with Asus PRIME Z270-A boards.  All 3 have 2 M.2 adapters installed so that each rig can run 9 GPUs.

I can confirm that power does not need to be connected to the M.2 adapters.  I haven't had any issues with mine, but I was very careful to center the adapter in the M.2 slots on the mobos.  It is a pretty loose fit and the pins are tiny, so being off center by like a 1/64th could be an issue.

I'm a little confused if my order will ship complete or not.

I got a notification that my order shipped, but I'm not sure if the motherboard is part of the order.  Here's part of the email I received today:



When I placed my order on the 3rd, the website was still showing Feb 5th-8th batch as being available, so I placed my order and have paid.

But looking at the above order status, it sure looks like the mobo is back ordered, and maybe the PSU as well?

@octominer can you please tell me what I see on my order means?