I have provided some incorrect info earlier on debian specifics on virtualization with KVM and Proxmox VE, I'm here to correct it. Also it looks like there is a newer version that I haven't used, so YMMV with all this. If you do go the PVE route and a KVM hypervisor, here's the docs I dug up: Basically, you'll have a debian install and need the device ID's for all the video cards: lspci -v |grep VGA
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 6719
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 6719
0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 6719
I posted incorrect paths to VM config files, the actual path is: /etc/qemu-server/VMID.conf Full documentation on these options: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Manual:_vm.confAt the bottom of this page, it describes the format for PCI passthrough of Device IDs: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVMIMO, the steps above "VT-d device hotplug" I believe to be unnecessary with PVE. To reiterate, my functional steps to get working PCI passthrough working in the past with this setup has been: 1. enable VT-d in the BIOS. This will let us create and install KVM virtual machines once PVE is installed. 2. install PVE. It's bare-metal and uses all disk space. 3. Log into web interface, create VM however. Stop it. 4. edit my vm .conf file and add the device ID. For you, this might be something like: device_add pci-assign,host=04:00.0,id=GPU0
device_add pci-assign,host=05:00.0,id=GPU1
device_add pci-assign,host=0a:00.0,id=GPU2
5. start your VM with new VGA devices detected. When I say VMID, I mean the standard naming convention in PVE of 101 for the first VM, 102 for the second, and so on with the defaults. One of those links says you can do this hot-plug from a kvm guest console, which is available from web interface or cli. I've never tried that myself. More links: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/VGA_device_assignmenthttp://www.linux-kvm.com/content/pci-passthroug-digital-devices-cine-s2http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Tape_Driveshttp://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Manual:_qmThe qm (man qm)command is your friend for kvm VM management from cli on this distro. Commands like "qm start 101" are instant win. See this: -hostpci[n] HOSTPCIDEVICE
Map host pci devices. HOSTPCIDEVICE syntax is:
'bus:dev.func' (hexadecimal numbers)
You can us the 'lspci' command to list existing pci devices.
Note: This option allows direct access to host hardware. So it
is no longer possible to migrate such machines - use with
special care.
Experimental: user reported problems with this option. So another less supported option, which I have most likely used is to simply issue a command(s) like: qm -hostpci0 05:00.0
qm -hostpci1 04:00.0
qm -hostpci2 0a:00.0 To add my PCI devices. http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthroughThis one details "enabling" PCI Passthrough in PVE 2.0 - which I haven't used yet. This step hasn't been required in the past up to PVE 1.9 to my knowledge, but may be required now. Idk here with this.... this seems new to me, never have performed this step to my knowledge. Enjoy the info dump homie  TL;DR Just kidding, thanks for the update!  |
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This is the FBI criminal complaint against the guys who allegedly wanted to attack something somewhere http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Wright_complaint_affadavit_050112.pdfpage 6, article 27 During this meeting WRIGHT and BAXTER talked about getting the Anarchist Cookbook but that they have not downloaded it because they do not want to be tracked online. The group then talked about a computer program you can buy for fifteen dollars a month that keeps people from tracking you on the Internet. They discussed using pre-paid debit cards or anonymous online accounts that use alternate currencies as a proxy for real dollars like "bitcoin" accounts to buy the program without leaving a traceable financial trail. BAXTER explained that he has a friend who is a hacker and can transfer paper money to bitcoins. He stated that you need some proxy to do it and both BAXTER and WRIGHT tried to explain how the bitcoin system works I wonder if Baxter and Wright ever posted on this forum  They sure have! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35556https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=247491st: 0 posts 2nd: LOL |
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...you monitor this thread, making sure there's no inferred references directed at you.
Oh shit, I'm screwed! |
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I have finally figured out what PR stands for. It is "Pretty Rude". Am I correct? I suspect it stands for Sock Puppet, only in Romanian. Both Mircea and MPOE-PR share the same gentle, diplomatic and thoughtful style when they communicate. Dude, you are like 2 weeks late to the party. Fortunately, MPOE-PR seems to have dried up and blown away for the most part. |
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Ahem. See sig. |
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may I humbly submit our Seals Tshirt:  I wouldn't exactly call 3300X2364 humble!
Hey, it's their bandwidth, I don't care. Nice design though. |
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Tinua you were asked HOW you measured the load 3 times but have never answered?
So here goes #4.
HOW did you measure a load of 50W? As in describe the steps, tools, and measurements that lead you to believe the single is using 50W.
I Put the kill a watt meter on 1 host PC with an HD5770 and start to mine. Then i connect 15 Singles and start to mine. 1 host PC + GPU mining: 180W 1 host PC + GPU + 15 Singles idle: 412W 1 host PC + GPU + 15 Singles mining: 920W OK so you are using a kill-a-watt. That's good, they are generally accurate. This interested me: They changed the power phase in REV3, it looks like a much more efficient one.
It is possible that the changed power subsystem, coupled with the high voltage input has increased your efficiency by that much. However, I wouldn't expect that either one or the other is solely responsible for the boost. |
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Thats kinda sketchy the guy said he bought 314 tickets and said now giga knows which block to choose. I am not saying anything wrong is going on at this point but I really did not like how he said it was gonna be private to a via PM. I trust and respect giga so hopefully this thing goes off without a hitch. However I will be really skeptical if that person wins. What are other people's feelings? Also I don't know he is going to win because I already won. LOL! Positive thinking plus my lucky smoke equals positive results. Not to mention my user name is Ilovebitcoins. I really figured that name would have been taken already. The method of choosing the winner guarantees that the pick is random. It uses a block hash from the future, which cannot be computed ahead of time, since it is a random number. See the OP for details. |
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I read allways that the BFL-Singles need ~80Watt. My PC with 1 mining GPU HD5770 and 15 BFL-Singles v3 suck ~920 Watt from the wall. My PC and GPU need 180 Watt; the 15 BFL's need 740Watt. This give only ~50Watt/Single ; this with the orginal China-Powersupply.  Or is something wrong with my measurement? It is possible that newer versions may be doing better on power usage, since the measurements were made with older models. But as far as we know, only the cooling components have changed in the newer versions. What are you using to measure the power draw? The only other change that I know of was that the board was slightly changed to support the heatpipe mounting system - perhaps the power subsystem got a tweak at the same time to improve efficiency. |
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Thank you for your response. I can see how that would be impossible by hand. What does the chip mount to exactly? I like how in RPH's thread [see below] he has his chip mounted to a tiny board which then mounts to a larger board. This seems like a good approach in the event an FPGA needs to be replaced. One of the reasons I see this whole thing as a possible for DIY, is just reading RPH's thread where he used a skillet or something. See here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=44891.0If he can do it, why not anyone? Despite the chances of losing a chip here or there, I think such a process could be fine tuned to be overall successful & repeatable. What he has there in that thread is [seems] very elegant and simple. Though, I am uncertain about what happens under the FPGA... Is a multilayer PCB required for our purposes? (i.e. btc mining) ||bit.out It mounts to an array of holes that match the balls on the chip. It requires a bit of skill, and if you screw up you can potentially lose the chip. That is bad when each chip costs more than the rest of the parts combined. |
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I'll have to snip the leads to the bottom fan
For simplicity in testing, I'd recommend just taping down the fan blade to keep it from spinning, or another low-tech method of restriction (a piece of chewed gum?). If you get some thermal throttling, it's easy to make it spin again. I would advise against that - a stuck motor can draw a multiple of the wattage that it normally draws, and thus overheat, even burn out. Well, a piece of paper across the air intake should do the trick for testing, but I generally advise against trusting in any kind of thermal shutdown, especially if the unit is known to not have on-die temperature sensors and just measure the board/air/case temperature. The singles do have on-die temp sensors, and they can be read with cgminer. |
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Okay I have xchat downloaded and am on the freenode server.
Looking up irc channel creation code now
You just join the channel that you want, and it will be created if it doesn't already exist. To chat with lots of people you can join #bitcoin. |
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Once I win, I can finally put the Gambling section back on ignore.
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Shouldn't this be in the auctions section so people can't ninja edit their posts?
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I asked the question, not to figure out how much I could make, which is the machines potential, but learn how much a pool is paying out at the time the calculation is done. A way to compare pools without having to go mine with them, as long as they make valid information available.
There can be a 10-15% difference between better paying pools and lower paying pools. If you didn't know this you might think you need to tweak your hardware more.
Wel if this is about ebtter paying pools, mine at Eligius. It's 0% fee and PPS. Don't even need to setup any logins or anything, just point your miners at http://<your address here>:x@mining.eligius.st:8337. Payout is automatically queued (not guaranteed immediately, but queued) around 0.67 BTC or a week after your last submitted share. Stats for your "login" can be seen at http://eligius.st/~artefact2/7/<your address here>. Mine as an example is http://eligius.st/~artefact2/7/1CxcPP8FVktppy4PHTYJKnZFqQeyZ3jArb . Any of the huge variances you may see is a result me manually adjusting GPU's clocks/volts to agree with the warming weather. Eligius is SMPPS, not PPS, unless something changed recently. |
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And once again, the thread is off topic from the OP
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For the record I am one of the people whom (since last September if I recall) have been trying to buy OpFab. Since that was not going to happen back then or more recently, I started my own service which now has 87 publishers displaying ads greater then 200k times a day and 45 ads. I have made periodic inquiries to the OpFab owner to see about purchasing the site or domain and all those offers have been rejected. I would like to see the idea of OpFab become successful since I fell in love with it in 2011 but I see no indication that BiokMike is going to let go of this service in its present form and is wasting everybody's time. The last blog update showed that BioMike reduced the publisher payout to .50btc which means nobody was getting prior to then and .50 is likely preventing all but the click fraudsters getting pay outs. This comment in particular irks me: I'm also open for a community sell. Respected people grouping together and run it together (more as a business, then you would have different roles, e.g. server admins, site designers, support desk, people handling "the finances"), maybe issue shares on GLBSE to fund it (I would even buy a few of those). Such group would have my preference. Selling to a committee is another huge business mistake and I doubt that OpFab gets the revenue to handle the salary requirements of a single person let alone be held responsible to share holders who would rightly expect to see a return on their investment. Anyone who does buy OpFab will be buying a half built platform with a complete design overhaul needed and I am guessing the backend as well. I have the technical experts and business experience to make that happen but at the same I increasingly do not need to do so and anyone who does buy this will not only start off in the red but have massive amounts of work and time to generate an income pushing out any profitability into several months or years away from squeezing a dime out of it. So I guess what I am getting at is buyer beware, if this would be a bad business acquisition for me of all people it is likely one for you as well.Probably within a week I am gong to be launching image banners on my service which will allow publishers and advertisers the advertising choices they want. In my opinion this service should either change hands now or shutdown. Delaying the inevitable is absolutely wasting the communities time and the goodwill of your customers. So you toss up a new advertising site without even bothering to iron out the bugs, and now you are trying to scare away all the other existing sites. Classy. |
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Yeah I know but you can't argue with their prices.
I can, but I won't here. |
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We currently have the IRC client downloaded and are operating under the free 30 day trial period.
I definitely plan on registering my account and then I will absolutely set up a channel for future advertisement discussions.
That... was a joke, right? IRC is free! Yeah use a proper client like X-Chat or irssi. |
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Interesting. So someone finally built that prototype multi-FPGA modular board that has been floating around as a concept on these forums for a while. Cool. EDIT: Looks like it is Cablepair - congrats Tom |
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