SILENTARMY v5: Zcash miner, 115 sol/s on R9 Nano, 70 sol/s on GTX 1070

[doktor83]

if someone could compile this and make a windows executable he would be a hero

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[mrb]

Thanks, only tried -v. I guess it's then related to bytes.hex throwing an error - and I replaced it with binascii.hexlify - I can't find the documentation to bytes.hex.

Code:

To solvers: b'4f8d976e1283c0caa145b6f3fdd478e9263108ac1c5a643bdf4f8d976e128300' 9732eb5b92ca5bdbb150 b'04000000455f40ac14ec9f6bad6cc8d5de2714ea84be396203d45e710745605e01000000f963ea196bb8cb2260a2825beca315b6d1e6608d8696338e26b75f8b1a4f93da0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000fc4e1c58940d041d' b'6493d02292'
From solver 0.0: banner "SILENTARMY mining mode ready"
From solver 0.0: strange: more than 1 line was read

These messages are normal & expected.

bytes.hex() is built into Python 3. If you don't have bytes.hex() it sounds like you are trying to run it under Python 2 which is not going to work (doesn't have asyncio, etc)

[mrb]

if someone could compile this and make a windows executable he would be a hero

Be a hero yourself: install and run Linux! :-)

Seriously, I'll look into Windows support, but not for the next version. Maybe later.

[MantaMine]

if someone could compile this and make a windows executable he would be a hero

Be heros and load me up with 0.5 BTC and I'll do it.

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[doktor83]

if someone could compile this and make a windows executable he would be a hero

Be a hero yourself: install and run Linux! :-)

Seriously, I'll look into Windows support, but not for the next version. Maybe later.

I don't have any problems with linux, i'm using debian systems myself for web servers and stuff, but my mining rigs are all on windows 7, working very stable, so i wouldn't like to change them all to ubuntu..

I hope you will be my hero soon, keep up the good work  

[NameTaken]

Bad news is that the latest version of Python in Debian Stable as well as backports is 3.4.2. I compiled 3.5.2 from source and now the miner is reporting 170-180 sol/s with 6 280Xs.

UPDATE - I am running the miner using Systemd and monitoring journalctl it's spitting out a hundred lines of log at once every minute instead of sequentially. I had a similar problem before with eXtremal's miner but I resolved that using /usr/bin/stdbuf.

[ShopemNL]

Thank you for this! Running 200+ where others do 130-150.

One issue i have with all the Linux miners the first GPU runs at 1/3 speed of the rest how to fix that?

[Genoil]

if someone could compile this and make a windows executable he would be a hero

Be a hero yourself: install and run Linux! :-)

Seriously, I'll look into Windows support, but not for the next version. Maybe later.

I got the solver to build on Windows now, only to find out the miner logic was written in Python...

 

[Eliovp]

if someone could compile this and make a windows executable he would be a hero

Be a hero yourself: install and run Linux! :-)

Seriously, I'll look into Windows support, but not for the next version. Maybe later.

I got the solver to build on Windows now, only to find out the miner logic was written in Python...

 

You beat me to it

[Genoil]

if someone could compile this and make a windows executable he would be a hero

Be a hero yourself: install and run Linux! :-)

Seriously, I'll look into Windows support, but not for the next version. Maybe later.

I got the solver to build on Windows now, only to find out the miner logic was written in Python...

 

You beat me to it

I didn't get it to mine yet, but the solver exe and msvc files are here: https://github.com/Genoil/silentarmy/tree/windows

--edit-- there's an issue in the socket comms between the miner and the solvers.

[jk_14]

I released SILENTARMY v3 which is now a full miner with multi-GPU support, Stratum support. Check the top post for more info. https://github.com/mbevand/silentarmy

Here is a test machine mining (R9 Nano and RX 480 8GB):

well done!
v4 for nVidia (CUDA based?) would be great now

[rednoW]

if someone could compile this and make a windows executable he would be a hero

Be a hero yourself: install and run Linux! :-)

Seriously, I'll look into Windows support, but not for the next version. Maybe later.

I got the solver to build on Windows now, only to find out the miner logic was written in Python...

 

You beat me to it

I didn't get it to mine yet, but the solver exe and msvc files are here: https://github.com/Genoil/silentarmy/tree/windows

--edit-- there's an issue in the socket comms between the miner and the solvers.

don't bother. nicehash has made all the work already. And it works far better then yours ))
Only thing I miss is the -i parameter ))

[doktor83]

are you talking about 0.4a ?

[tbearhere]

Im wait windows x64 on Nvidia .

Me too  on comp 5.0 and 5.2. 

me 3 , 750ti and 1070 

Me too.

[igotek]

Hello,

I made a major update and released SILENTARMY v3: a full Zcash miner with multi-GPU and Stratum support, for Linux: https://github.com/mbevand/silentarmy

SILENTARMY was initially written as a command line solver for the Zcash open source miner challenge. Its OpenCL kernel is more optimized than any other public Equihash solver, so as a result it was integrated into multiple other miners: Zogminer, Genoil's miner, eXtremal's miner, etc. But now SILENTARMY is in essence the "reference" SILENTARMY kernel miner. It will always have the latest "SILENTARMY kernel" optimizations. It's lightweight at ~4000 lines of code. It's pretty robust in my experience: my test machine has the AMDGPU-PRO drivers 16.40 running on 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04 and 2 GPUs (R9 Nano and RX 480 8GB) and I mined all day without any crashes.

My roadmap is:

• v2: support GCN 1 → DONE
• v3: make a full miner supporting multi-GPU and stratum → DONE
• v4: Nvidia support
• v5: Windows support?

GitHub: https://github.com/mbevand/silentarmy
Zcash forum thread: https://forum.z.cash/t/silentarmy-gcn-1-now-supported-45-7-sol-s-with-one-r9-nano/3580

Mining on my test machine (R9 Nano and RX 480 8GB):

Should I install Ubuntu 16.04 dektop or the other one with black screen ?

[dagarair]

i am a ubuntu tard.  I never used it past getting it running and dropping a file in a folder and hitting run. 

That out of the way, I know you need to create a file basically lika a config.txt equivalent for it to trigger this.  I have tried and just don't know how.  It takes me back when I was learning DOS and Qbasic, omg 25 years ago.  I guess my question is how do you get this miner to run?  I have created the file and #!/bin/bash but after that I just don't know what to put in it.  Thanks and I apologize for the ignorance.

[greaterninja]

I'm running mrb's silentarmy version 3 with r9 380 and rx 480 4gb and can confirm its stable and VERY fast and stable in ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

I've tested several ZEC miners and as of this writing, nothing compares.

I assume Claymore and the others will use mrb's version 3 tech in their miners.


Thank you very much mrb!!!

[igotek]

I'm running mrb's silentarmy version 3 with r9 380 and rx 480 4gb and can confirm its stable and VERY fast and stable in ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

I've tested several ZEC miners and as of this writing, nothing compares.

I assume Claymore and the others will use mrb's version 3 tech in their miners.


Thank you very much mrb!!!

I am downloading ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I also dowloaded the drivers for amd. Could you tell me how to use the miner after installed ubuntu.

[ocminer]

Quite impressive, good work, works fine on https://zec.suprnova.cc too !





Those are 3 x Tahiti 270x

[Genoil]

if someone could compile this and make a windows executable he would be a hero

Be a hero yourself: install and run Linux! :-)

Seriously, I'll look into Windows support, but not for the next version. Maybe later.

I got the solver to build on Windows now, only to find out the miner logic was written in Python...

 

You beat me to it

I didn't get it to mine yet, but the solver exe and msvc files are here: https://github.com/Genoil/silentarmy/tree/windows

--edit-- there's an issue in the socket comms between the miner and the solvers.

don't bother. nicehash has made all the work already. And it works far better then yours ))
Only thing I miss is the -i parameter ))

This isn't about integrating the SA kernels into a Windows app. I was first with that anyway when each ZEC still got you over 2BTC.

This is about doing @mrb a return favor in getting a Windows version of his miner out early.

Anyway I'm running into unicode decoding issues communicating over stdin/out between the miner and the solver. I should get back to ZECMiner, solve some issues there. If anyone is interested in fixing it up, be my guest

https://github.com/Genoil/silentarmy/tree/windows