python OpenCL bitcoin miner

[Khertan]

At least one server is required

That's the important error message, you didn't provide any mining pool server address.

[m0mchil]

@Ruudsy

Just put the server definition after all other options

[seannnyx]

what operating system do you recommend?

[Nonlin]

Is this better than GUIminer?

[Khertan]

A possible workarround for people that have hardware error with the driver 13.4 and can't downgrade the driver ... :

The BFI_INT optimisation look like to be problematic on that driver version, more informations :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=221041.new#new

EDIT : i think it should be a good idea to define or not BFI_INT depending on the version of the driver also and not just only the plateform name (aka Jupiter for my 5770)

[mrm0]

Hello fellow miners.

I use poclbm without any major problems, but every now and then I will get an error message:

Code:

Verification failed, check hardware! (<hwID>, <32bit hex value>)

The general advice is to check one's hardware and I concur, but I want to look at it from a different angle.

My question is on the mathematical side. What exactly is tested to perform this verification?
I haven't seen it described anywhere.

[Khertan]

The miner check the result of the opencl kernel by doing the double sha calculation with the nonce just found by the kernel.

[mrm0]

The miner check the result of the opencl kernel by doing the double sha calculation with the nonce just found by the kernel.

Makes sense.
Thank you.

[hostmaster]

Is this better than GUIminer?

I think so.

[ringtail]

Nice one man, thanks for the help!