Best for a Cuda machine?

[Evan]

I don't need to trolls to tell me switch to ATI. (I don't see any decent Server machines in the ATI bag of tricks, and don't tell me how amazing the AMD FirePro S10000, we bought3 K10s for around the same price, as the 1 card, and they are faster for 3d rendering speed, then the FirePro could pray to be)

 (And I don't need trolls that tell me turn off your GPU+CPU since BLFs machine is coming, its not here yet, and frankly even burning $200 at work on electric wont matter even if its to earn $20 in bit coins, because the power is a Tax write off as a business expense for us.)

I just need what is going to run best on this, I have permission to do a 1 week burn in test on the cards, running the CPU (20 physical+ 20 Logical) and the Video cards. (I doubled checked server was ordered with 2 Intel 8850)

And of course will be running the system in the off hours, and on weekend.

[crazyates]

With those crazy high end GPUs, the concern is dual with exorbitantly high power costs, but also drastically reducing the life of the cards, all for just a few coins. But hey, it's your cash, not mine.

The only CUDA miner I know of is the RPC CUDA one that's included in GUIminer. However, the mining software itself is almost 2 years without any updates. I doubt you would get any sort of performance out of that, but it's the best you got.

[crazyates]

Sounds like you're pretty lucky, then. Most GPUs will not last 6 years, especially ones folding or mining 24/7!

I have never seen any issues with life being decreased by moderate use.

This is true, but BTC mining is not "moderate" by any stretch of the imagination. It's essentially a torture test that we decide to run all day every day.

[bcpokey]

You can change how hard you run the cards while mining, to decrease the "torture". Since you're not going to produce hardly any hash, not much reason to run high stress level hashing.

You can mine with anything, cgminer, guiminer, etc

[crazyates]

You can change how hard you run the cards while mining, to decrease the "torture". Since you're not going to produce hardly any hash, not much reason to run high stress level hashing.

You can mine with anything, cgminer, guiminer, etc

Cgminer supports ocl, not CUDA. GUIminer does to CUDA (and bypasses the 100% cpu as a result) thru the RPC I mentioned, but will be slower as it has not been maintained, IIRC.

[-ck]

I experimented with native cuda on nvidia GPUs here at home and it performed the same speed as opencl for bitcoin mining. The only advantage I found with native cuda was I could get the CPU usage down by disabling polling in it, which you cannot do with opencl on nvidia. So in summary, just use any miner with an opencl kernel that runs on your GPU. cgminer works fine.

[KWH]

Mining stresses a GPU more than Boinc. Yes, I do both.

[bcpokey]

Thanks, you said it far more expertly than I ever could have ck . But that was what I was driving at, you can use just about anything, phoenix, diablo. Gui might be simplest tho.