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November 26, 2010, 06:43:24 AM |
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Fixed.
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November 26, 2010, 08:12:33 AM |
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New version works very nicely, except if I try to add -v to my launch options on an nvidia gtx275 ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2FFwSsr.png&t=665&c=NjZqC2t3OmM7zg) It crashes shortly thereafter Faulting application name: poclbm.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4918019b Faulting module name: nvcuda.dll, version: 8.17.12.6099, time stamp: 0x4cb9d8c5 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x000285d5 Faulting process id: 0x480 Faulting application start time: 0x01cb8d411389c8bb Faulting application path: C:\Users\[user]\Desktop\poclbm_py2exe_20101126\poclbm.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\nvcuda.dll Report Id: 5a9d2442-f934-11df-8ff5-0026185aa540
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brocktice
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November 27, 2010, 03:10:23 AM |
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Thanks for the updates, m0mchil, and for integrating getwork into the mainline client, Satoshi! I've also updated my minerd.py to incorporate m0mchil's latest changes, and I've tested it in the testnet and verified that it finds blocks appropriately with the svn r191.
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martin
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November 27, 2010, 04:10:13 AM |
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LobsterMan what the hell kind of graphics card are you running to get those numbers? ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif)
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November 28, 2010, 01:09:38 AM Last edit: November 28, 2010, 04:07:28 AM by farmer_boy |
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I managed to get mine to "work" too. I get less hashes out of my graphics card (1400k/s) than from the CPUs (1800k/s). I am also running X, so maybe that matters (but I doubt that).
Why are the AMD GPUs so much faster for this kind of work? From the numbers I have seen in this thread they are truly crushing nvidia. Are the nvidia cards better at doing floating point computations (or at least _something_) or are they basically just obsolete?
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LobsterMan
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November 28, 2010, 08:40:25 AM |
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LobsterMan what the hell kind of graphics card are you running to get those numbers? ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) I run 2 GTX275's, but I think that for some reason, when I specify -v it displays the cumulative hashes as the rate/sec, which is obviously incorrect. It crashes within 10-15 seconds anyway, so I guess nvidia cards just don't play nice with vectors...
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November 28, 2010, 09:14:53 AM |
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You probably get the same result if you remove the GPU kernel call completely ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) I still remember when I was tweaking m0mchil's miner in the hope I could make it somewhat faster on NVidia, once I had that magnificent amount of hashes too I thought w000t. Then I saw the compile error at the top ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Compilation fails with vectors...
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November 30, 2010, 01:01:18 AM |
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I've run into this using the latest (20101126) miner executable under windows. I've also seen it once before using an earlier version, I believe 20101102. The miner seems to run fine for a while, and then this error comes up, and the miner exits. Any thoughts? Anything about my setup I can provide to help? sys:1: DeprecationWarning: struct integer overflow masking is deprecated Traceback (most recent call last): File "poclbm.py", line 140, in <module> File "pyopencl\__init__.pyc", line 205, in kernel_call OverflowError: long int too large to convert P.S. m0mchil, I can't find a donation address for you... if you had one in your sig, it would be much easier to bribe you for support ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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m0mchil (OP)
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November 30, 2010, 03:16:24 PM |
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Thanks David. I forgot to remove that one and now I am unable to remove your quote of it ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) btchris, please send me a personal message. Since your are using the 'compiled' version (and nobody reported such problem recently with it) I want to know what is your GPU and how do you start poclbm (what parameters you use).
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December 02, 2010, 05:52:18 AM |
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This is pretty nice and workly correctly for me. With Bitcoin UI using my CPU (Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600: 4 cores at ~3GHz), I get about 5200 khash/s. With my Radeon HD 5830 GPU (~800MHz - 1GiB of memory), I get about 200500 khash/s. This is on Windows 7 64 bits with Bitcoin 0.3.17 and poclbm_py2exe_20101126. Thanks and keep up the good work! ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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December 02, 2010, 11:57:19 AM |
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Tried this out for fun on Amazon EC2, on a GPU instance described as: Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large 22 GB memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Units, 2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs, 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform, 10 Gigabit Ethernet For $2.10/hour. Fought like hell to finally get it working. [root@ip-10-17-129-89 m0mchil-poclbm-db8597c]# python poclbm.py No device specified, you may use -d to specify ONLY ONE of the following
Choose device(s): [0] <pyopencl.Device 'Tesla M2050' at 0x17927d90> [1] <pyopencl.Device 'Tesla M2050' at 0x17927de0> Choice, comma-separated [0]:0,1 53481 khash/s
With -v it runs at about 32Mhash/s. http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php tells me that generating a block is going to cost about $378 at this rate, and take a week on average. Needless to say, I shut it off ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) If something 27x faster becomes available, that's breakeven. Very nice work on the project, though, m0mchil.
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December 02, 2010, 12:08:53 PM |
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thanks for trying, nice to know that it's worthless. even a HD5570 is faster than that (mine does 64M) and can run a few years for $378. ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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m0mchil (OP)
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December 02, 2010, 12:16:54 PM |
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Thanks Mike!
Could you please try to run it on a single device? Or use '-d 0' and '-d 1' in two separate processes. poclbm is not optimized to run on more than one device (needs to maintain different queues to avoid choking one or the other). Perhaps there's better way to do this, don't know.
Anyway, even if you manage to get more of them it won't be 27x.
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mikegogulski
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December 03, 2010, 12:37:28 AM |
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Thanks Mike!
Could you please try to run it on a single device? Or use '-d 0' and '-d 1' in two separate processes. poclbm is not optimized to run on more than one device (needs to maintain different queues to avoid choking one or the other). Perhaps there's better way to do this, don't know.
Anyway, even if you manage to get more of them it won't be 27x.
[root@ip-10-17-144-204 m0mchil-poclbm-db8597c]# python poclbm.py -d 0 55981 khash/s [root@ip-10-17-144-204 m0mchil-poclbm-db8597c]# python poclbm.py -d 0 -v 35398 khash/s
Okay, point proven. Similar performance when using a single device, so the payoff factor is more like 13.5x rather than 27x, at least on this hardware.
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December 03, 2010, 01:11:25 AM |
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Then could you run another instance on python poclbm.py -d 1 ?
Sure, and then the aggregate performance would be about 112Mhashes/sec.
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December 04, 2010, 01:17:24 PM |
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After downloading the latest drivers, I'm getting 15 Mhash/sec on a Geforce 9600 GT. Pretty cool, though I wish it worked with the pooled mining... I am too impatient to wait days for a result ^_^
Anyone know if there are plans to support GPU pooled mining? That would be fantastic.
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December 09, 2010, 10:06:29 AM |
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After downloading the latest drivers, I'm getting 15 Mhash/sec on a Geforce 9600 GT. Pretty cool, though I wish it worked with the pooled mining... I am too impatient to wait days for a result ^_^
Anyone know if there are plans to support GPU pooled mining? That would be fantastic.
Yes, I'm working on that: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.40 . It is already working. Want to go live until Sunday. m0mchil's miner working well with that.
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December 09, 2010, 02:09:23 PM |
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Not to sound n00bish, but when I follow the instructions I get: [mithrandir@fedora poclbm]$ python ./poclbm.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "./poclbm.py", line 3, in <module> import pyopencl as cl ImportError: No module named pyopencl Funny thing is, I did install pyopencl with an rpm I got. ![Huh](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/huh.gif) (I tried it with the src, and got errors. RPM install worked fine.) My system is: Fedora 14, 32 bit, Python 2.7, ATI Radeon 3100 Graphics, AMD Sempron LE-1300 EDIT: GPUCap via Wine says I don't have OpenCL support, but it also says I don't even have a GPU. ![Undecided](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/undecided.gif) Is there a way to find out if I have OpenCL support on GNU/Linux? According to that python error, no you don't have pyopencl installed. Go figure. Also, you need at least a Radeon 4xxx to use OpenCL, 3xxx isnt enough.
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December 09, 2010, 02:29:56 PM |
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According to that python error, no you don't have pyopencl installed. Go figure.
On Fedora 12, the standard pyopencl installation doesn't work properly. I got it to work by following the instructions here: http://wiki.tiker.net/PyOpenCL/Installation/Linuxbut I had to use the second (longer) procedure in section 3, with locations specified explicitly. Also, in step 2 of that document, I couldn't get Numpy to install using that method. But it installed properly when I used the GUI rpm installer ("System | Administration | Add/Remove Software").
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