CCminer M7 (XCN) by djm34, fixed + optimized for cuda 8 and new cards by PALLAS

[bensam1231]

Still no windows build.

I think Pallas is doing this on purpose because he hates windows and windows users and has anti-windows code installed in the source designed to destroy windows builds. ~_~

[pallas]

Still no windows build.

I think Pallas is doing this on purpose because he hates windows and windows users and has anti-windows code installed in the source designed to destroy windows builds. ~_~

funniest post so far

thanks for confirming that the community doesn't deserve my work for free.

[sp_]

Have you merged your work into 1.8.1? I see colors.

[pallas]

Have you merged your work into 1.8.1? I see colors.

No, just improved the current logging functions, besides other non-cuda works.

[bensam1231]

Still no windows build.

I think Pallas is doing this on purpose because he hates windows and windows users and has anti-windows code installed in the source designed to destroy windows builds. ~_~

funniest post so far

thanks for confirming that the community doesn't deserve my work for free.

XD

Only nix users do... >: P

[scryptr]

PROMISED TO TRY PALLAS' CCMINER FOR XCN--

But when I finally got around to checking it out, the Windows version is no longer available (link is dead), and the Linux version won't compile correctly.  I tried editing the makefile, but no luck so far.  Any clues here?  I've read the entire thread, I think I neeed a vbetter clue.

I upgraded my 5x GTX 960 Linux rig to Lubuntu 14.04 with CUDA 8.0 just to try the CCminer.       --scryptr

[alrami]

Ok guys let's make a briefing.

I've worked on this project many hours and received less than 0.1 BTC in donations.
Instead, what I've received plenty, are criticisms because I didn't make a windows binary.

Now, I've worked a lot more on this and I could publish the new code, for a >20% improvement.
What do you think I should do?

0.1 BTC is ok for guys with 18+ GPUs, but it's a lot of little miners with 2-4-6 GPU rig
In my eyes it will be better to make private miner with 1-2% dev fee
So everyones can pay according their hashrates.
And it will be no any problem with a coin rate etc. (if like - just use - and pay)

P.S. it can be a say 20% less hash free miner to hold a GNU spirit (but i'm not 100% sure, case i'm never saw food market, working under GNU)

 

[Arrakeen]

Ok guys let's make a briefing.

I've worked on this project many hours and received less than 0.1 BTC in donations.
Instead, what I've received plenty, are criticisms because I didn't make a windows binary.

Now, I've worked a lot more on this and I could publish the new code, for a >20% improvement.
What do you think I should do?

Spent hours writing, scouring over, and editing code...only to receive minimal reward and a plethora of complaints?

What you should be doing is celebrating - you've made it to professional developer land

[Amph]

Ok guys let's make a briefing.

I've worked on this project many hours and received less than 0.1 BTC in donations.
Instead, what I've received plenty, are criticisms because I didn't make a windows binary.

Now, I've worked a lot more on this and I could publish the new code, for a >20% improvement.
What do you think I should do?

0.1 BTC is ok for guys with 18+ GPUs, but it's a lot of little miners with 2-4-6 GPU rig
In my eyes it will be better to make private miner with 1-2% dev fee
So everyones can pay according their hashrates.
And it will be no any problem with a coin rate etc. (if like - just use - and pay)

P.S. it can be a say 20% less hash free miner to hold a GNU spirit (but i'm not 100% sure, case i'm never saw food market, working under GNU)

 

you can't add 18 gpu to this, or the diff will skyrocket

current hash around 3000MH, one 1070 = 30MH, 18 of those would be 540 added already, then add another couple of gpu from other members and you will kill the profit

[alrami]

Ok guys let's make a briefing.

I've worked on this project many hours and received less than 0.1 BTC in donations.
Instead, what I've received plenty, are criticisms because I didn't make a windows binary.

Now, I've worked a lot more on this and I could publish the new code, for a >20% improvement.
What do you think I should do?

0.1 BTC is ok for guys with 18+ GPUs, but it's a lot of little miners with 2-4-6 GPU rig
In my eyes it will be better to make private miner with 1-2% dev fee
So everyones can pay according their hashrates.
And it will be no any problem with a coin rate etc. (if like - just use - and pay)

P.S. it can be a say 20% less hash free miner to hold a GNU spirit (but i'm not 100% sure, case i'm never saw food market, working under GNU)

 

you can't add 18 gpu to this, or the diff will skyrocket

current hash around 3000MH, one 1070 = 30MH, 18 of those would be 540 added already, then add another couple of gpu from other members and you will kill the profit

I have no 18+ GPUs, so it will be no problem from my side ;-)

[bensam1231]

Ok guys let's make a briefing.

I've worked on this project many hours and received less than 0.1 BTC in donations.
Instead, what I've received plenty, are criticisms because I didn't make a windows binary.

Now, I've worked a lot more on this and I could publish the new code, for a >20% improvement.
What do you think I should do?

Missed that... but as I've mentioned numerous times, almost all miners are on Windows. Not releasing Windows binaries is basically shooting yourself in both feet at the same time and cutting off your hands. You may hate SP, but there is a reason he, Wolf, and Claymore release windows binaries first and foremost. There isn't a market for nix, despite what the vocal minority that tells you how horrible windows is and that nix is the master race, they're probably like .1% of the population.

If you care about money, building windows binaries probably should be first and foremost on your plate. People aren't going to donate for nix versions they can't build, let alone use because they're on Windows.

This completely puts aside the free market and that people wont donate (or buy) a miner that is earning less then other algos.

[Nikolaj]

Still no windows build.

I think Pallas is doing this on purpose because he hates windows and windows users and has anti-windows code installed in the source designed to destroy windows builds. ~_~

funniest post so far

thanks for confirming that the community doesn't deserve my work for free.

+1

As always.

[pokeytex]

Ok guys let's make a briefing.

I've worked on this project many hours and received less than 0.1 BTC in donations.
Instead, what I've received plenty, are criticisms because I didn't make a windows binary.

Now, I've worked a lot more on this and I could publish the new code, for a >20% improvement.
What do you think I should do?

Missed that... but as I've mentioned numerous times, almost all miners are on Windows. Not releasing Windows binaries is basically shooting yourself in both feet at the same time and cutting off your hands. You may hate SP, but there is a reason he, Wolf, and Claymore release windows binaries first and foremost. There isn't a market for nix, despite what the vocal minority that tells you how horrible windows is and that nix is the master race, they're probably like .1% of the population.

If you care about money, building windows binaries probably should be first and foremost on your plate. People aren't going to donate for nix versions they can't build, let alone use because they're on Windows.

This completely puts aside the free market and that people wont donate (or buy) a miner that is earning less then other algos.

@bensam1231 - you hit the nail on the head!  I have multiple rigs and would have enjoyed mining M7 - however no windows binaries means, no mining.  No mining means no donation for Pallas.  I am sure I am not the only one that feels this way.  I tried to compile with whatever means I could find online but at the end of the day it wouldn't work - i moved on.

[LackyHash]

i have only 15700 kh/s in my gtx 1070

[pallas]

i have only 15700 kh/s in my gtx 1070

The current opensource miner does too many memory writes and the 1070 seems to be affected more than the 980ti.

[scryptr]

PALLAS, WHAT IS NEEDED TO COMPILE FROM YOUR GITHUB? --

I have a CUDA 8.0rc environment in Lubuntu 14.04, and the compile does not complete.  I've tried modifying the Makefile.am, but can't quite get it righght from the hints in this thread.  Is there a missing file?       --scryptr?

[pallas]

PALLAS, WHAT IS NEEDED TO COMPILE FROM YOUR GITHUB? --

I have a CUDA 8.0rc environment in Lubuntu 14.04, and the compile does not complete.  I've tried modifying the Makefile.am, but can't quite get it righght from the hints in this thread.  Is there a missing file?       --scryptr?

Could you please quote the error you are getting?

[scryptr]

PALLAS, WHAT IS NEEDED TO COMPILE FROM YOUR GITHUB? --

I have a CUDA 8.0rc environment in Lubuntu 14.04, and the compile does not complete.  I've tried modifying the Makefile.am, but can't quite get it righght from the hints in this thread.  Is there a missing file?       --scryptr?

Could you please quote the error you are getting?

I INSTALLED CUDA 8.0RC--

And just now I cloned from git your "ccminer-m7-branch" repository.  Following with "./autogen.sh" and "./configure", and after I ran "sudo apt-get update", I gave the command "make" in the cloned directory, named "pallas".  Everything ran fine until:

<error free compilation log>
nvcc -g -O2 -I . -Xptxas "-v" --compiler-bindir /usr/bin/gcc-4.9 -gencode=arch=compute_50,code=\"sm_50,compute_50\" -gencode=arch=compute_52,code=\"sm_52,compute_52\" --maxrregcount=80 --ptxas-options=-v  -o heavy/cuda_blake512.o -c heavy/cuda_blake512.cu
/bin/bash: nvcc: command not found
make[2]: *** [heavy/cuda_blake512.o] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/pallas'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/pallas'
make: *** [all] Error 2
<end of compilation log>

I then gave the command "nvcc" in my home directory and got:

"The program 'nvcc' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit"
 
I then gave the command "sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit", and got:

"Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 nvidia-cuda-toolkit : Depends: nvidia-opencl-dev (= 5.5.22-3ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed or
                                opencl-dev
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

The CUDA toolkit is installed, but something is missing.  I used the *.deb package after removing my CUDA Toolkit 7.5 package and drivers.   CTK 8.0rc is installed with the newer drivers, and I was able to run the Claymore Linux binary.

Where do I go from here?       -scryptr

[pallas]

nvcc is not in the PATH.
find it and then:

export PATH=***nvcc directory***:$PATH

if you install cuda by .run file, it will be into a subdir of /usr/local, don't know about the deb method.
you can run "find / -xdev -name nvcc" if unsure.

[ioglnx]

XCN is worth mining again :-D it reach 358 yesterday but today still at nice 320