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

[mmmaybe]

Hey everyone,
My GPUs have been sleeping for 8 months, and I even consider selling them. Is it something out there where you can make decent profit with nvidia?
Regards

Wich model?

All are 750TIs. I never upgraded when they released their new models, since profit was so small.

[sp_]

Hey everyone,
My GPUs have been sleeping for 8 months, and I even consider selling them. Is it something out there where you can make decent profit with nvidia?
Regards

Wich model?

All are 750TIs. I never upgraded when they released their new models, since profit was so small.

The 750ti is the best  Hashrate/watt

Downlad the latest NVIDIA driver. Then download this:

1.5.53(sp-MOD) is available here: (17-06-2015)

https://github.com/sp-hash/ccminer/releases/tag/1.5.53

The sourcecode is available here:

https://github.com/sp-hash/ccminer

then run with this:

ccminer -a quark -o stratum+tcp://quark.eu.nicehash.com:3345 -u 1CTiNJyoUmbdMRACtteRWXhGqtSETYd6Vd -p x

You should get around 5.6-6.6MHASH per 750ti depending on your clockrates and card model (The power consumption is around 7Watt per MHASH)

The current prices for quark is around 0,003BTC per 750ti per day. ($0,729 /day) With overclocking (0,85$ / day)
The global hashrate for quark based coin's is around 150GHASH per day (25 000 750ti gpu's with ccminer sp-mod or 75 000 radeon 280x with sgminer opensource). The daily Global payout to the miners for the quark algorithm is around 85BTC per day


For more info goto the sp-mod thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=826901.3940

[mmmaybe]

If it's out of line (then remove it), but there is an auction for six 750TI 2GBs at the moment in that forum section. Current bid is.... (drums...) 1.51 BTC.  

Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1098900

[QuadraQ]

Hey everyone,
My GPUs have been sleeping for 8 months, and I even consider selling them. Is it something out there where you can make decent profit with nvidia?
Regards

Wich model?

All are 750TIs. I never upgraded when they released their new models, since profit was so small.

The 750ti is the best  Hashrate/watt

Downlad the latest NVIDIA driver. Then download this:

1.5.53(sp-MOD) is available here: (17-06-2015)

https://github.com/sp-hash/ccminer/releases/tag/1.5.53

The sourcecode is available here:

https://github.com/sp-hash/ccminer

then run with this:

ccminer -a quark -o stratum+tcp://quark.eu.nicehash.com:3345 -u 1CTiNJyoUmbdMRACtteRWXhGqtSETYd6Vd -p x

You should get around 5.6-6.6MHASH per 750ti depending on your clockrates and card model (The power consumption is around 7Watt per MHASH)

The current prices for quark is around 0,003BTC per 750ti per day. ($0,729 /day) With overclocking (0,85$ / day)
The global hashrate for quark based coin's is around 150GHASH per day (25 000 750ti gpu's with ccminer sp-mod or 75 000 radeon 280x with sgminer opensource). The daily Global payout to the miners for the quark algorithm is around 85BTC per day


For more info goto the sp-mod thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=826901.3940

Are the 750ti's STILL the best hash/watt nvidia cards available? I'm looking for a nvidia card to mine x11 and looking for the best bang for my buck, but I've been out of the game for a while so I don't know what the best current card is.

[Epsylon3]

yes, but people like to have a big one ;p

for the summer consider one or two 750ti or a 960

In the US the 960 is the best price/power i guess but you could find used 750ti for less.... with or without warranty

[djm34]

fast(er) lyra algo has been released:

windows binaries: https://mega.co.nz/#!5ZkVmLZb!qgTTz4OJFsAtJNLqwYqf6mGvaSWwHiVMBoDUlOk1sDc
source code: https://github.com/djm34/ccminer-lyra

1140kh/s on 750ti
2500kh/s on 980
2900kh/s on 780ti (and 3.3MH/s if you are lucky enough to screw your compilation... got that once, mostly random  )

[xyburcoin]

Thanks djm34.. works better, almost doubled than previous version.  

[Epsylon3]

Yes, thanks for us :p busy these days on many things (pool setup and cuda 7.5 rc), i might grab your changes later

[GingerAle]

If anyone is interested in working on cryptonight mining on nvidia hardware, the Monero community has been working on organizing funding using our funding system.

In short, people post ideas - in this case, I posted to develop optimized mining software. If you can develop the idea, you pitch your cost, availability, timeline, and milestons (etc) in the idea thread.

https://forum.getmonero.org/6/ideas/323/open-source-gpu-mining-software-hashrate-increase-fund-bounty-hire-a-dev-whatever

Then a fund raising goal is set for your proposed cost.

So, you get to name your cost, timeline and milestones and goals! No more ridiculous bounties set by noncoders that have no idea what they're talking about (thats me!!)

So all you have to do is go into that thread in Ideas and tell us that you can do it, give us a bit of background on yourself, and give us costs and milestones (either overall cost, cost per milestone, whatever)

[dga]

If anyone is interested in working on cryptonight mining on nvidia hardware, the Monero community has been working on organizing funding using our funding system.

In short, people post ideas - in this case, I posted to develop optimized mining software. If you can develop the idea, you pitch your cost, availability, timeline, and milestons (etc) in the idea thread.

https://forum.getmonero.org/6/ideas/323/open-source-gpu-mining-software-hashrate-increase-fund-bounty-hire-a-dev-whatever

Then a fund raising goal is set for your proposed cost.

So, you get to name your cost, timeline and milestones and goals! No more ridiculous bounties set by noncoders that have no idea what they're talking about (thats me!!)

So all you have to do is go into that thread in Ideas and tell us that you can do it, give us a bit of background on yourself, and give us costs and milestones (either overall cost, cost per milestone, whatever)

Kudos, GingerAle - this seems like a great approach.

For others:  I did a little bit of this style contract work for the Monero core team a while back (documenting/explaining the PoW function and its implementation in the code);  we agreed on a fair rate in advance and they paid it when the milestone was met.  It was a good deal all around, and from my perspective, it felt entirely fair and I'd work with them again.

[kenscho]

will this miner support cryptonote in the next times?

[ngdias]

fast(er) lyra algo has been released:

windows binaries: https://mega.co.nz/#!5ZkVmLZb!qgTTz4OJFsAtJNLqwYqf6mGvaSWwHiVMBoDUlOk1sDc
source code: https://github.com/djm34/ccminer-lyra

Hi, I was just trying to compile this using Xubuntu 14, nvidia 343.22 and CUDA 6.5.
Autogen.sh and ./compile didn't break or show any errors I could see, but make gave an error:

0.   Running pass 'Remove redundant loads' on function '@_Z20yescrypt_gpu_hash_k0ij'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
make[2]: *** [yescrypt/cuda_yescrypt.o] Error 139
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/ccminer-lyra-master'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/ccminer-lyra-master'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Any idea what this is about and how to fix it?
I was kind of following this guide https://gist.github.com/zcshiner/4b32980792d367222304 , but I changed the ccminer version at the end and didn't install mpir. Is mpir necessary for this version as well?
Thanks!

[MrEHQE]

I succesfull compiled ccminer on debian jessie, here a tutorial I write (italian) : http://mrehqe.blogspot.it/2015/07/compilare-ccminer-su-debian-jessie.html

just follow this steps:

sudo apt-get install automake autoconf nvidia-cuda-toolkit libssl-dev libcurl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev
git clone https://github.com/cbuchner1/ccminer.git
cd ccminer
wget https://raw.github.com/rallat/quarkcoin-cpuminer/4e6c263c837bd04261df1ba7383ea828409ff498/acinclude.m4
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

the wget done the trick

[sp_]

Why do you want to compile cudaminer. Almost all the algorithms have been ported and optimized in ccminer


The latest can be found here (compute 3.5 or bether):

1.5.55(sp-MOD) is available here: (14-07-2015)

https://github.com/sp-hash/ccminer/releases/

The sourcecode is available here:

https://github.com/sp-hash/ccminer


(compute 3.0,3.2)

https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/

[alenevaa]

Why do you want to compile cudaminer. Almost all the algorithms have been ported and optimized in ccminer

I couldn't find scrypt-jane in ccminer.
Does it have implemented this algo for yacoin, ultracoin etc..

[Fuzzbawls]

Why do you want to compile cudaminer. Almost all the algorithms have been ported and optimized in ccminer

I couldn't find scrypt-jane in ccminer.
Does it have implemented this algo for yacoin, ultracoin etc..

Tpruvot's cc miner supports script-jane

[sp_]

my fork as well.

[ngdias]

I'm getting an error when trying to run djm34's ccminer. I compiled it following this guide: https://gist.github.com/zcshiner/4b32980792d367222304

A simple command line, for example:

./ccminer -a x11 -o server:port -u user.miner -p x

Breaks with this error message:

JSON decode failed(2): end of file expected near '{'
[2015-07-21 14:50:02] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds

Can anyone help?
[SOLVED] I was not using 'stratum+tcp://' before the server address.

[ngdias]

fast(er) lyra algo has been released:

windows binaries: https://mega.co.nz/#!5ZkVmLZb!qgTTz4OJFsAtJNLqwYqf6mGvaSWwHiVMBoDUlOk1sDc
source code: https://github.com/djm34/ccminer-lyra

The GitHub page says 'allow to compile with cuda 7.5'.

'allow' confuses me, is 7.5 mandatory? Or would it also work with CUDA 6.5?

Are the dependencies you mention OpenSSL, Curl, pthreads the only ones required? Because I was getting make errors and those went away after installing mpir.

Thanks.

[djm34]

fast(er) lyra algo has been released:

windows binaries: https://mega.co.nz/#!5ZkVmLZb!qgTTz4OJFsAtJNLqwYqf6mGvaSWwHiVMBoDUlOk1sDc
source code: https://github.com/djm34/ccminer-lyra

The GitHub page says 'allow to compile with cuda 7.5'.

'allow' confuses me, is 7.5 mandatory? Or would it also work with CUDA 6.5?

Are the dependencies you mention OpenSSL, Curl, pthreads the only ones required? Because I was getting make errors and those went away after installing mpir.

Thanks.

The performance are better with cuda 6.5 for most algo except lyra2...
so if you want to mine lyra you'll get better result if you use cuda 7.5 if you want to mine something else you should stay with cuda 6.5

the "allow to compile" refers to the fact that it wasn't possible before to compile successfully with cuda 7.5 because of heavy coin algo which was causing the compiler to crash (this is a bug in cuda 7.5, forgot to submit a ticket to nvidia...)