Avalon ASIC users thread

[SLok]

16*5 = 80 chips for 22GH/s => 275MH/chip @ 2.5W.
BFL should do around 6GH/chip @ 13W

Maybe someone already did this math but i still find it interesting.

Where did you get that from? Last thing I heard it was 72W at the wall for the 60GH/s single, which' 8 chips clock at 7.5GH/s btw, so the whole device uses 1.2 W per GH/s.

Sorry... i did the math with what i recalled by mind and i had an error of 20%...

Sure, 6GH/s @13W= 130Watt for the device vs 72Watt is about 20%. If you used Puerto's calculator that is.

Anyone asked for shipping information at DHL lately?

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[Dalkore]

Avalon shipped a month ago!  I'm glad so many people have received their equipment.  Go Avalon!

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20130220T20&p0=33&msg=Avalon+shipped+a+month+ago%21

You obviously can't read or comprehend topics.  Troll

[GenTarkin]

Im curious, to the guy who made the thermal images of the boards, is there a chance to get a shot of the power circuitry the same way? I wonder if those run really hot comparably or are quite cool....
Would make me more comfortable knowing those components are running way under limits.

[tidus_13]

Hey jgarzik or Jeff,

After these days of testing, what pool do you consider is more stable to mine with avalon? i have seen BTC Guild with 32 difficulty and solo mining w/ eloipool + high diff how high?

[jgarzik]

Had to power-cycle the miner at uptime 1 day, 21 hours.  cgminer was responding, but no mining work was going upstream to the pool.  The 'hardware errors' count was increasing rapidly.

[jddebug]

Had to restart the miner at uptime 1 day, 21 hours.  cgminer was responding, but no mining work was going upstream to the pool.  The 'hardware errors' count was increasing rapidly.

Does the restart seem to fix it? (Hardware errors)

[jgarzik]

Does the restart seem to fix it? (Hardware errors)

Yes.

[GenTarkin]

I wonder what the reason is .. hopefully bugs in firmware or cgminer, but wonder if unit could be defective somehow =(

[Luke-Jr]

Had to restart the miner at uptime 1 day, 21 hours.  cgminer was responding, but no mining work was going upstream to the pool.  The 'hardware errors' count was increasing rapidly.

Just cgminer? Or all of OpenWrt? Or the entire machine?

[jgarzik]

The miner was power-cycled.  (updated original note to indicate this)

[loshia]

The miner was power-cycled.  (updated original note to indicate this)

Is this helping out (working) to automate the process of restarting?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145885.0
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6 there is some monitoring logic in cron, but it does NOT prevent the machine to get wonky (jgrazik & me both have experienced, crying~~).
Here is a snippet might be useful (default port is 4028):
RESTART_MONITOR="(echo -n 'devs' | nc ${IP} ${PORT} | grep 'MHS 5s=0.0') && (echo -n 'restart' | nc ${IP} ${PORT})"
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[desper]

I am trying to contact Avalon with questions about delivery etc. I emailed Yofu, but I didn;t receive a reply after 48 hours. Does anyone know the best person to contact there? Do they have a support email address?

[jgarzik]

They have a support site at http://support.avalon-asic.com/

[kano]

The miner was power-cycled.  (updated original note to indicate this)

Is this helping out (working) to automate the process of restarting?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145885.0
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6 there is some monitoring logic in cron, but it does NOT prevent the machine to get wonky (jgrazik & me both have experienced, crying~~).
Here is a snippet might be useful (default port is 4028):
RESTART_MONITOR="(echo -n 'devs' | nc ${IP} ${PORT} | grep 'MHS 5s=0.0') && (echo -n 'restart' | nc ${IP} ${PORT})"
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It's better to run cgminer in an infinite bash loop (with a 5s sleep after it exits to avoid a hard loop) and send it a 'quit'
Although 'restart' is usually pretty simple in linux, it can mess up on rare occasions

[jgarzik]

Avalon miner fan behavior is as follows:
   - fans stay at ~0/840/840 until temp3 reaches ~55
   - fans accelerate to much higher speed (0/3480/3240)
   - fans never slow down, even though temp3 decreases to ~43

It would be nice if the fans slowed down.  Much noise with new firmware!

[SebastianJu]

I would really like to know how many avalon-units are mining right now. I heard they were able to ship 12 units a day with 0.065TH each. And it looks like many of you are mining at ozcoin. The hashrate of the network grew around 10TH in the last 1.5month i have read and asicminer is at 4.2TH. I doubt the rest is avalon isnt it?

So how many avalons are mining now at what hashrate?

[SolarSilver]

So how many avalons are mining now at what hashrate?

5 x 66 Gh/s have been confirmed, maybe 6. So optimistically 400 Gh/s. One unit had 4 instead of 3 modules, so it's a bit faster.

The bulk of the built machine have probably only shipped out after CNY and are either currently in transit or stuck at customs... hard to tell without any updates or tracking being available.

As all of the first batch #1 of 300 units will be shipped out by the end of Feb, by mid March you will notice about 20 Th/s come online. Perhaps by then it will only be background noise compared to the 50 Th/s ASICminer will release. And the 2 test machines BFL will put online :-)

Obviously this model did not work out due to CNY and shipping problems:

http://organofcorti.blogspot.be/2013/01/96-asic-choices-wwje-update.html

edit:
(I am referring to the arrival part, the update #3 of the model is indeed more realistic)

[organofcorti]

So how many avalons are mining now at what hashrate?

5 x 66 Gh/s have been confirmed, maybe 6. So optimistically 400 Gh/s. One unit had 4 instead of 3 modules, so it's a bit faster.

The bulk of the built machine have probably only shipped out after CNY and are either currently in transit or stuck at customs... hard to tell without any updates or tracking being available.

As all of the first batch #1 of 300 units will be shipped out by the end of Feb, by mid March you will notice about 20 Th/s come online. Perhaps by then it will only be background noise compared to the 50 Th/s ASICminer will release. And the 2 test machines BFL will put online :-)

Obviously this model did not work out due to CNY and shipping problems:

http://organofcorti.blogspot.be/2013/01/96-asic-choices-wwje-update.html

This model looks fairly accurate atm:

[01BTC10]

Anyone who need to find the IP address of their unit could use Nmap or look in the router log.

[loshia]

Anyone who need to find the IP address of their unit could use Nmap.

Ip is well known already:)
Besides nmap is good if you know or have an idea what you are looking for:) What about scanning whole B or A network:)