[ANN] cudaMiner & ccMiner CUDA based mining applications [Windows/Linux/MacOSX]

[Veldaban]

This is funny, you seem against the establishment (bankster, politicians), but then you ask for an established exchange system for cryptocurrencies.

No contradiction - I'm hoping for a free market system without government interference or control .

[bigjme]

Even that cant be done. Bitcoin proved that. Get a few people with a lot of bitcoins to throw around and they can cripple the market. Bitcoins dropped a huge amount the other day because of this

There will always be some sort of control. But this is often down to people selling too low when it comes to cryptocurrency.

[david_flo1]

I don't think you have all the NVidia drivers installed.  You're probably either running the stock windows drivers or you didn't install PhysX.  Hit up their site, download the GeForce experience thing under drivers and do a full install, that should sort you out.  I wouldn't expect too much out of a mobile card though.  Also, you can just do -d 0 or -d 1 but I'd be shocked if it picked up on the onboard graphics.

I am new to this world of virtual coins, but I am a Software Engineer.

I am having trouble launching the program, the x64 binary provided. I use the following command line:
cudaminer -d gt555m -C 2 -i 0 -o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3334 -O user.worker:password

and I get this:
           *** CudaMiner for nVidia GPUs by Christian Buchner ***
                     This is version 2014-02-18 (beta)
        based on pooler-cpuminer 2.3.2 (c) 2010 Jeff Garzik, 2012 pooler
            Cuda additions Copyright 2013,2014 Christian Buchner
          LTC donation address: LKS1WDKGED647msBQfLBHV3Ls8sveGncnm
          BTC donation address: 16hJF5mceSojnTD3ZTUDqdRhDyPJzoRakM
          YAC donation address: Y87sptDEcpLkLeAuex6qZioDbvy1qXZEj4
[2014-02-19 17:01:32] Unable to query CUDA driver version! Is an nVidia driver installed?


I believe this is due to the Laptop specs, it has both a NVidia GT55M 2GB and a Intel card. I have set the NVidia card to be the default card but it does not seem to be enough. I can't disable the Intel Card. I have a Lenovo ideapad Y570, is a fairly good and powerful laptop, I would like to get some juice out of it.

Any ideas?  I am ready to donate my first Litecoin to the right answer
thanks!

I do have them, stock drivers intalled from Lenovo, and then official update. I have Nvidia control panel and can see card properties and select it as default card for stuff like Windows Media and so on. This is a Switchable graphics laptop.

I already tried -d 0 and -d 1 with no luck

[fruitsdemers]

I don't think you have all the NVidia drivers installed.  You're probably either running the stock windows drivers or you didn't install PhysX.  Hit up their site, download the GeForce experience thing under drivers and do a full install, that should sort you out.  I wouldn't expect too much out of a mobile card though.  Also, you can just do -d 0 or -d 1 but I'd be shocked if it picked up on the onboard graphics.

I am new to this world of virtual coins, but I am a Software Engineer.

I am having trouble launching the program, the x64 binary provided. I use the following command line:
cudaminer -d gt555m -C 2 -i 0 -o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3334 -O user.worker:password

and I get this:
           *** CudaMiner for nVidia GPUs by Christian Buchner ***
                     This is version 2014-02-18 (beta)
        based on pooler-cpuminer 2.3.2 (c) 2010 Jeff Garzik, 2012 pooler
            Cuda additions Copyright 2013,2014 Christian Buchner
          LTC donation address: LKS1WDKGED647msBQfLBHV3Ls8sveGncnm
          BTC donation address: 16hJF5mceSojnTD3ZTUDqdRhDyPJzoRakM
          YAC donation address: Y87sptDEcpLkLeAuex6qZioDbvy1qXZEj4
[2014-02-19 17:01:32] Unable to query CUDA driver version! Is an nVidia driver installed?


I believe this is due to the Laptop specs, it has both a NVidia GT55M 2GB and a Intel card. I have set the NVidia card to be the default card but it does not seem to be enough. I can't disable the Intel Card. I have a Lenovo ideapad Y570, is a fairly good and powerful laptop, I would like to get some juice out of it.

Any ideas?  I am ready to donate my first Litecoin to the right answer
thanks!

I do have them, stock drivers intalled from Lenovo, and then official update. I have Nvidia control panel and can see card properties and select it as default card for stuff like Windows Media and so on. This is a Switchable graphics laptop.

I already tried -d 0 and -d 1 with no luck

You could try -d gt555m but if the switchable system actually powers the nvidia gpu off, then this will definitively not work.
Have you tried looking into your graphics options and see if there's an option in power management that lets you chose which program gets to use which gpu where you could add cudaminer to the list?

I don't have an optimus laptop so I can't really look for you but that seems like the most likely solution.

[frontier204]

I don't think you have all the NVidia drivers installed.  You're probably either running the stock windows drivers or you didn't install PhysX.  Hit up their site, download the GeForce experience thing under drivers and do a full install, that should sort you out.  I wouldn't expect too much out of a mobile card though.  Also, you can just do -d 0 or -d 1 but I'd be shocked if it picked up on the onboard graphics.

I am new to this world of virtual coins, but I am a Software Engineer.

I am having trouble launching the program, the x64 binary provided. I use the following command line:
cudaminer -d gt555m -C 2 -i 0 -o stratum+tcp://coinotron.com:3334 -O user.worker:password

and I get this:
           *** CudaMiner for nVidia GPUs by Christian Buchner ***
                     This is version 2014-02-18 (beta)
        based on pooler-cpuminer 2.3.2 (c) 2010 Jeff Garzik, 2012 pooler
            Cuda additions Copyright 2013,2014 Christian Buchner
          LTC donation address: LKS1WDKGED647msBQfLBHV3Ls8sveGncnm
          BTC donation address: 16hJF5mceSojnTD3ZTUDqdRhDyPJzoRakM
          YAC donation address: Y87sptDEcpLkLeAuex6qZioDbvy1qXZEj4
[2014-02-19 17:01:32] Unable to query CUDA driver version! Is an nVidia driver installed?


I believe this is due to the Laptop specs, it has both a NVidia GT55M 2GB and a Intel card. I have set the NVidia card to be the default card but it does not seem to be enough. I can't disable the Intel Card. I have a Lenovo ideapad Y570, is a fairly good and powerful laptop, I would like to get some juice out of it.

Any ideas?  I am ready to donate my first Litecoin to the right answer
thanks!

I do have them, stock drivers intalled from Lenovo, and then official update. I have Nvidia control panel and can see card properties and select it as default card for stuff like Windows Media and so on. This is a Switchable graphics laptop.

I already tried -d 0 and -d 1 with no luck

My nVidia Optimus laptop (Intel + GT630M) works fine with -d 0. There's a couple things you could try:
- The GPGPU stuff (F@H, mining) did not work unless I installed an up-to-date INTEL driver first, and the nVidia driver second. You should make sure both are up to date.
- Make sure the nVidia control panel actually shows your driver version number under Help->System Information. (if not, then something is wrong with your drivers)
- You should be able to right-click on the shortcut to Cudaminer (NOT a batch file) and select "Run with graphics processor" -> "nVidia". Note however I don't have to do this for mining, but I used to have to do it for Folding@Home.

[DirtyWilly]

Does Cudaminer work with Dark Coin (DRK)?

[sin242]

Does Cudaminer work with Dark Coin (DRK)?

Not atm.  No idea if he is going to impliment it in the future however if you really want to mine with NV the modified SGminer works but it's
woefully slow compared to ati cards. (my 780 gets about 440kh, my 7970 does ~2.2mh)

[Scribbles646]

Took a few days off and the world goes to hell...

...I mean

Scrypt profit margin is down again alot, 40 pages of new posts in this thread, whats best to aim our NV's at right now?

[69charger]

Took a few days off and the world goes to hell...

...I mean

Scrypt profit margin is down again alot, 40 pages of new posts in this thread, whats best to aim our NV's at right now?

PANDA

[sub-80]

Started mining pandacoin getting 300khash/s with my 780. Is that the highest one can get with the 780?

This is my bat file: "cudaminer.exe --algo=scrypt:2048 -o stratum+tcp://panda.nitro.org:3338 -O user:pwd"    

Launch config is T12x20
Bench hash/sec: 329142 hash/s
Max total warps (BxW): 322


-i 1 -C 0 -H 0 (Default)

try -C 2

My 780 wont get higher then 180khash/s which I believe is the same as christian is seeing?

Oh I didnt notice its panda, I never got that to work just throws a million errors.
What version of cudaminer actually works with panda?

The latest one and the one before it that are the ones i tried anyway. Hope that helps.

[sub-80]

Started mining pandacoin getting 300khash/s with my 780. Is that the highest one can get with the 780?

This is my bat file: "cudaminer.exe --algo=scrypt:2048 -o stratum+tcp://panda.nitro.org:3338 -O user:pwd"    

Launch config is T12x20
Bench hash/sec: 329142 hash/s
Max total warps (BxW): 322


-i 1 -C 0 -H 0 (Default)

try -C 2

cudaminer.exe --algo=scrypt:2048 -l T12x20 -C 2 -o stratum+tcp://panda.nitro.org:3338

got "T kernel ignores the texture cache argument" giving me the same hash rate, so removed the launch config

cudaminer.exe --algo=scrypt:2048 -C 2 -o stratum+tcp://panda.nitro.org:3338
still got the t kernel ignores the .....

cudaminer.exe --algo=scrypt:2048 -lT12x20 -i 0 -C 2 -o stratum+tcp://panda.nitro.org:3338

got the T kernel ignores but had the same hash rate with some in ~+310 khash/s

cudaminer.exe --algo=scrypt:2048 -i 0 -C 2 -o stratum+tcp://panda.nitro.org:3338
still the same T kernel ignores ..... (result: -i 0 -C 0 -H 0) and hash rate average 310 with a few 318 in the beging. That said the autotuned launch configuration was the same T12x20.

Hope this helps and if have any ideas to increase hash would be glad to hear it.

Installed new driver 334.89 hash rates dropped by 10khash/s from last run from above (but that usually is normal as the gpu gives 10 above or below the average at every launch).
Mostly 295khash/s but some 300khash/s rarely any 315khash/sec.

tried -H 1 -C 2 -l T12x20 -i 0 -L 2 posted by lordaccess to Nelberg and it gave a really low hash rate of 230khash/s.

removed the -L 2 from the .bat file and now mostly 305khash/s

removed aslo -C 2 because it ineffective cudaminer gives T kernel ignores texture cache and hash rate 305khash/s

[DirtyWilly]

Does Cudaminer work with Dark Coin (DRK)?

Not atm.  No idea if he is going to impliment it in the future however if you really want to mine with NV the modified SGminer works but it's
woefully slow compared to ati cards. (my 780 gets about 440kh, my 7970 does ~2.2mh)

Interesting, didn't think SGminer would recognize the card!  Thanks friend!

[DrAlco]

Currently mining rabbit and getting ~620khash/s on an EVGA 780ti SC ACX (factory clocks) on the latest drivers with the following parameters:
-d 0 -m 1 -C 2 -l T30x16

My setup doesn't work with x20 or x24 at all and drops down to hashes in the teens.

Thinking about whether to buy another 780ti or get a separate mining rig with a bunch of 750ti's....

[Cial]

Currently mining rabbit and getting ~620khash/s on an EVGA 780ti SC ACX (factory clocks) on the latest drivers with the following parameters:
-d 0 -m 1 -C 2 -l T30x16

My setup doesn't work with x20 or x24 at all and drops down to hashes in the teens.

Thinking about whether to buy another 780ti or get a separate mining rig with a bunch of 750ti's....

Exact same issue for me unless I use -L 2. Even still I only get 240khs with that setting, when I feel like I should easily be getting 300+. Maybe it has to do with other hardware? I'm running a i5 2500k and the 780 isn't in PCIE 3.0 mode. Could that explain the lower hash?

[Bearclaw]

http://cryptomining-blog.com/944-testing-geforce-gtx-750-ti-maxwell-for-alt-crypto-mining-with-cudaminer/


this was not done well.

Yacoin needs lookup gap -L 2, 3, or 4 with mid range cards. I would expect the 750Ti to break 2.5 kHash/s.

Keccak needs huge launch configurations (like -l K1024x32) and the K kernel (T sucks for Keccak).

So I picked up a 750 Ti tonight and did some initial testing,  I was able to get the following from my 750 Ti (EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti FTW w/ EVGA ACX Cooling) ~$160 USD after rebate.

Scrypt
-l T5x24 -m 1 -H 0 -i 0

328 khash


scrypt-jane:YAC
--algo=scrypt-jane:YAC -l t64x1 -i 0 -m 1 -L 2 -H 1

3.36khash

Scrypt:2048
--algo=scrypt:2048 -i 0 -m 1 -H 1 -l T5x20

164 khash

Keccak
--algo=keccak -i 0 -l K1024x24 -C 2 -H 1 -m 1

80500 khash

I really didn't spend a lot of time with the keccak, as it's getting late here and I have to get up for work tomorrow.  One observations I made was that upping the memory clock really did help the performance, more so that raising the GPU clock.  The tests I did were at GPU +38 and Memory at +516.  The card's temp really didn't get about 57 C either.  I felt that the card still has some more room and I will continue to play around with it tomorrow night.

[Cial]

http://cryptomining-blog.com/944-testing-geforce-gtx-750-ti-maxwell-for-alt-crypto-mining-with-cudaminer/


this was not done well.

Yacoin needs lookup gap -L 2, 3, or 4 with mid range cards. I would expect the 750Ti to break 2.5 kHash/s.

Keccak needs huge launch configurations (like -l K1024x32) and the K kernel (T sucks for Keccak).

So I picked up a 750 Ti tonight and did some initial testing,  I was able to get the following from my 750 Ti (EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti FTW w/ EVGA ACX Cooling) ~$160 USD after rebate.

Scrypt
-l T5x24 -m 1 -H 0 -i 0

328 khash


scrypt-jane:YAC
--algo=scrypt-jane:YAC -l t64x1 -i 0 -m 1 -L 2 -H 1

3.36khash

Scrypt:2048
--algo=scrypt:2048 -i 0 -m 1 -H 1 -l T5x20

164 khash

Keccak
--algo=keccak -i 0 -l K1024x24 -C 2 -H 1 -m 1

80500 khash

I really didn't spend a lot of time with the keccak, as it's getting late here and I have to get up for work tomorrow.  One observations I made was that upping the memory clock really did help the performance, more so that raising the GPU clock.  The tests I did were at GPU +38 and Memory at +516.  The card's temp really didn't get about 57 C either.  I felt that the card still has some more room and I will continue to play around with it tomorrow night.

Can I ask what your setup is? CPU, Ram, Windows version etc?

[Bearclaw]

Can I ask what your setup is? CPU, Ram, Windows version etc?

Sure

Intel Core i7-3930K (OC'ed to ~4.7Ghz) Water cooled (H100)
32GB Ram Corsair DDR3-2133
Windows 8 64-bit
Corsair HX1050 power supply

[ghur]

You might want to try -C 2 for scrypt:2048, I found it helped performance quite a bit.

[cbuchner1]

- The GPGPU stuff (F@H, mining) did not work unless I installed an up-to-date INTEL driver first, and the nVidia driver second. You should make sure both are up to date.

I would go futher and say
-update system BIOS
-Intel driver
-nVidia driver

this fixed the Optimus on my boss's laptop.

[ivanlabrie]

Can I ask what your setup is? CPU, Ram, Windows version etc?

Sure

Intel Core i7-3930K (OC'ed to ~4.7Ghz) Water cooled (H100)
32GB Ram Corsair DDR3-2133
Windows 8 64-bit
Corsair HX1050 power supply

+1 C 2 for scrypt and please try higher L values. 3 and 4 and maybe higher and auto tuning would net you more than 4khs (I hope) :p

thanks!