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241  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: First airline ticket bought with bitcoin. on: July 27, 2011, 12:53:08 AM
You just made it on GeekWire...

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/bitcoin-befuddles-customs-agents-thwarting-seattle-visit-digital-currency-guru

Cheers,
Kermee
242  Economy / Collectibles / Re: 1 gram .999 fine silver "bitcoin" rounds . Available 6 - 8 weeks on: July 27, 2011, 12:28:28 AM
Woot! Requested a quote!

Cheers,
Kermee
243  Economy / Collectibles / Re: 1 gram .999 fine silver "bitcoin" rounds . Available 6 - 8 weeks on: July 26, 2011, 06:46:25 PM





Cheers,
Kermee
244  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Problem with 5870 + 5770 on: July 26, 2011, 04:59:50 PM
So this hotfix stops the driver from disabling adapters without an attached monitor?

Yes. But it's buggy on certain systems (high CPU usage). YMMV.

Cheers,
Kermee
245  Other / Archival / Re: Pictures of your mining rigs! on: July 26, 2011, 03:36:56 AM
Kermee : Great set up !!!  It's nice to have a clean datacenter setup... But I'm partial to the grass roots mobo on box cables all of the place set up. 

Thank you.  I'm planning on 'carving' out a contained room in the garage to house all the rigs after a bit and probably install gable vents to get outside airflow going... I don't think installing a 4 ton A/C unit would be the most effective.  But once I'm able to get a room carved out, I can definitely get the rigs all 'properly' setup.



@Kermee: That's 56 GPUs?

There's twelve 4x5830 rigs and two 3x6970 rigs in this picture.  So 54 GPU's.  You're close!  But you have the right # if all the rigs were 4x.



thats a plugNmine job Smiley luv it
no wasted effort in making things pretty just get it up&running with some air blowing over it

Thank you. Yeah, first priority was just to get the miners up and running... No matter how 'ugly' it looks... But there is a bit of 'rhyme & reason' on how I did setup the rigs and PSU's.



I remember some alien-producing center in Crysis has similar structure Grin

LOL! I've been found out where I stole the idea from! Wink



Kermee : What are the specs on those rigs? 

Stated above, they're mostly 4x5830 and 3x6970's. Not all of them are mine though. Several of the rigs I'm running for a friend of mine.  Sans the cards, they are:

* MSI 890FXA-GD70 Motherboard
* AMD Sempron 140 CPU
* Single-stick of 2GB DDR3
* El-Cheapo 8GB Flash Drive
* Ubuntu 11.04 Headless using this guide with a few tweaks of my own (e.g. Watchdog for failed GPU or lockup).



Well the good news is when winter rolls around you can heat your house!

The amount of hardware is impressive... It's like nerd porn.

Tell me about it... I think with the garage door *CLOSED* it hits 140F ambient.  I didn't test it long enough to see if it went over 140F... No worries about winter for sure!



Amen to that. The only way I could run my rigs without running it circuit overloads everywhere was to switch them over to 240v. I'm in an appartment, so my options are limited, but I was able to plugin to the 40AMP 240V outlet for my electric stove, and now all my power problems are over.

That's GENIUS.  All my heating, stoves, water-heater, etc. are NG (including my clothes dryer) so I didn't have any existing 240V 3-pole breakers in my load center.  But tapping into a 40A 240V breaker is genius for sure.



I only had to add 3 dedicated circuits in the basement for my setup. It does pay to be an amateur electrician, hiring one would have been expensive!

Aye.  Electricians aren't cheap, but as long as you know what you're doing... Wink  Once I get a room for the rigs carved out in the garage, I'm going to reroute and properly do the electrical in electrical PVC, etc. so it's all to code.

Cheers,
Kermee
246  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: [1btc bounty] Help Restarting Miners in Linuxcoin on: July 25, 2011, 10:32:29 PM
Added this to my start miner script, seemed to do the trick, this is now working correctly

xhost +
echo $DISPLAY > /home/user/.display

Karmee + Xtriphammer post addresses for donations

Sent to you in a PM.

Code:
xhost +
echo $DISPLAY > /home/user/.display

Duh... Forgot about xhost... I just assumed those two would be already persistent in the environment.

Keep those miners mining!

Cheers,
Kermee
247  Bitcoin / Mining / Re: Been with btc guild for 48 hours and found a block WTF!!!! on: July 25, 2011, 07:28:34 AM
I joined btc guild 2 days ago with my 2.3Ghash/s and I found a block,but I only get .05 btc my total payout is 1.6 btc
I know thats how pools work and im not saying im being wronged in any way,but that dosent stop me from feeling like an ass for missing out on 50btc lol!!!!!! Angry

Buy a lotto ticket.

NOW!

Cheers,
Kermee
248  Economy / Services / Re: Need a 250 BTC Loan on: July 25, 2011, 07:26:56 AM
1. http://www.prosper.com/ (In case no one takes you up on 250 BTC)

2. It's a pretty big claim that you're going to be able to sustain $1500/month for 3 months with 14x 5850's... Least that was the implication.  3 months is hard to predict difficulty jumps and BTC/USD valuations if the sole way of paying back investor(s) is through mined BTCs...

Good luck on your endeavor however!

Cheers,
Kermee
249  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Watercooling is amazing. on: July 25, 2011, 07:12:24 AM
Very nice.

Do you have a list of what you bought for all the watercooling?  I might invest in it in the not-too-far future.

Cheers,
Kermee
250  Other / Archival / Re: Pictures of your mining rigs! on: July 25, 2011, 06:51:36 AM
Makes me sad to see a mess like that Sad

Trust me.... Me too. But it works for me for now. -- I did the heat/thermal calculations and I'd basically need 4 tons of AC in the garage to keep it at or around 68F.  So open-air/open-case for now.  Each card runs between 55C-70C depending on the ambient temperature outside.  Garage stays around 120F.

How are you running that without blowing fuses/breakers?

Is your garage specially wired?

I have 200A service/load center to my house.  I added six 20A breakers to the garage just to run that batch of rigs you see in the picture.  I have Kill-A-Watt meter on each rig to make sure I'm at or below 80% load on each 20A branch.

Cheers,
Kermee
251  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How many people have you introduced to bitcoin? on: July 25, 2011, 06:07:10 AM
Not enough merchants.

Cheers,
Kermee
252  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: BitHub, a bitcoin hackers hub in Seattle, and GLBSE is moving there! on: July 25, 2011, 05:51:54 AM
So here's the details of my Seattle trip.

http://blog.glbse.com/no-electronic-devices

Wow.  Just finished reading your blog post.  That was harsh and I'm sorry you had to go through that.  The whole ordeal seems... well frankly... retarded.

Maybe Vancouver, B.C. next time?

Cheers,
Kermee
253  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: [.5btc bounty] Help Restarting Miners in Linuxcoin on: July 25, 2011, 05:40:27 AM
with one miner off


user@linuxcoin:~$ ps -ef | grep phoenix.py | grep -v grep
user      4685  4684  0 03:24 pts/2    00:00:03 /usr/bin/python ./phoenix.py -u http://reganreckman@gmail.com_bottom:regan10@pit.deepbit.net:8332/ -q 7 -k phatk BFI_INT VECTORS FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=11 DEVICE=1
user      4687  4686  0 03:24 pts/3    00:00:03 /usr/bin/python ./phoenix.py -u http://reganreckman@gmail.com_bottom:regan10@pit.deepbit.net:8332/ -q 7 -k phatk BFI_INT VECTORS FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=11 DEVICE=2
user@linuxcoin:~$ ps -ef | grep phoenix.py | grep -v grep| wc -l
2
user@linuxcoin:~$


Hrm. This is strange.

Change miner0.sh to this:

Code:
cd /opt/miners/phoenix && /opt/miners/phoenix/phoenix.py -u http://reganreckman@gmail.com_bottom:regan10@pit.deepbit.net:8332/ -q 7 -k phatk BFI_INT VECTORS FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=7 DEVICE=0

Kill miner0, and then manually run the script by calling:

Code:
/home/user/miner1.sh

And tell me what happens... I think 'restart.sh' is fine... It's your minerX.sh scripts which are the problem.

Cheers,
Kermee

254  Other / Archival / Re: Pictures of your mining rigs! on: July 25, 2011, 04:11:48 AM
Half the rigs I'm running are in the garage...



Gotta love yellow 12/2 Romex...

Cheers,
Kermee
255  Other / CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware / Re: Radeon HD 6950 Running Hot on: July 25, 2011, 03:28:45 AM
I'll try making the side fan an exhaust and see how that turns out.

Wouldn't using a spacer of sort kind of be a little dangerous? I mean I know these cards bend a bit but I'm paranoid of the very small-pci connector just going snap.

Try the suggestions the other folks have given you.

If you're paranoid, try the spacers as a 'last resort'... I have spacers on all my 4x5830 rigs and it's been almost two months without issue.

You'd be surprised how much a few mm of extra spacing for the cards to 'breathe' drops the temperatures.  I was surprised myself.

Cheers,
Kermee
256  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: [.5btc bounty] Help Restarting Miners in Linuxcoin on: July 25, 2011, 03:26:20 AM
Run this just to make sure:

Code:
ps -ef | grep phoenix.py | grep -v grep

Or you can just do a line-count:

Code:
ps -ef | grep phoenix.py | grep -v grep | wc -l

You should get an output of '3'... Which means 3 phoenix.py miners are running.

Cheers,
Kermee
257  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: [.5btc bounty] Help Restarting Miners in Linuxcoin on: July 25, 2011, 03:20:20 AM
How do i check on X server? could i start it with the script?

Code:
ps -ef | grep X | grep -v grep

Tell me what the output is.

Cheers,
Kermee
258  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: [.5btc bounty] Help Restarting Miners in Linuxcoin on: July 25, 2011, 03:00:49 AM
Run this for me to:

Code:
`cat /home/user/.display`

Since I just noticed you have an export DISPLAY on it...

Cheers,
Kermee
259  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: [.5btc bounty] Help Restarting Miners in Linuxcoin on: July 25, 2011, 02:54:40 AM
Change each minerX.sh to (of course incrementing DEVICE=0 through 2) this:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/miners/phoenix && ./phoenix.py -u http://xx@gmail.com_bottom:pass@pit.deepbit.net:8332/ -q 7 -k phatk BFI_INT VECTORS FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=7 DEVICE=0

Your restart.sh should look like this:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=`cat /home/user/.display`
pc=`ps waxuf | grep miner1.sh -c`
ld=`DISPLAY=:0 aticonfig --odgc --adapter=0 | grep "GPU load" | cut -c 30-35 | cut -d % -f 1`
if [ $pc -lt "2" ] || [ $ld -lt "50" ] ; then
 kill `ps -ef | grep miner1 | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
 lxterminal --title miner1 --command sh /home/user/miner1.sh &
 date +"%D %r miner1 restarted" >> /home/user/cron_job.log
fi
pc=`ps waxuf | grep miner2.sh -c`
ld=`DISPLAY=:0 aticonfig --odgc --adapter=1 | grep "GPU load" | cut -c 30-35 | cut -d % -f 1`
if [ $pc -lt "2" ] || [ $ld -lt "50" ] ; then
 kill `ps -ef | grep miner2 | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
 lxterminal --title miner2 --command sh /home/user/miner2.sh &
 date +"%D %r miner2 restarted" >> /home/user/cron_job.log
fi
pc=`ps waxuf | grep miner3.sh -c`
ld=`DISPLAY=:0 aticonfig --odgc --adapter=2 | grep "GPU load" | cut -c 30-35 | cut -d % -f 1`
if [ $pc -lt "2" ] || [ $ld -lt "50" ] ; then
 kill `ps -ef | grep miner3 | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
 lxterminal --title miner3 --command sh /home/user/miner3.sh &
 date +"%D %r miner3 restarted" >> /home/user/cron_job.log
fi

If the 'DISPLAY=:0' isn't fixing this:

Code:
(lxterminal:XXXX): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: 
aticonfig: This program must be run as root when no X server is active

Double-check to make sure that X is running. X might of crashed...

Cheers,
Kermee

260  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: [.5btc bounty] Help Restarting Miners in Linuxcoin on: July 25, 2011, 02:46:58 AM
Paste the contents of /home/user/miner1.sh for me.   You can remove the pool info, creds, etc.

Cheers,
Kermee
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