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

[myagui]

cbuchner1: Awesome work on the maxcoin release. I will surely be sending over some coins when I get my internet back (bad weather here, just barely online via mobile). You make the 'green team' proud! 

Earlier there was a post about new/next cudaminer development opportunities, and I have two suggestions to make:

Protoshares - popular, highly valued, already has a gpu miner available (only binary I think), though it appears to be far from reaching optimal performance on nvidia, so likely opencl only at the moment. My single GTX 770 earns me a little over .5 PTS a day (1GH pool) and only using 70% power. (1PTS trades for 0.015BTC)

Primecoin - popular, currently CPU only (suspecting this one would prove to be a challenge in terms of optimizing for GPU at all, but perhaps cuda specifically would make it worthwile). It's not highly valued, but stable and also very popular. The potential on this one is for a GPU implementation to break into new performance figures, thus making it largely profitable for a relative time.

I hope this comes across as helpful. I would love to help with code but lack the skill-set, so instead I'm looking to save Christian's time in going through all the altcoins to work out the most interesting (or challenging) opportunities ahead. I'll be happy to to test any development version to support new coins, however broken or buggy a release is - but I only take binaries though

On Riecoin that was just mentioned: It's technically very similar to Primecoin, but yet to be launched. Interesting opportunity if it is found to reach a good coin value for the relative performance in GPU mining, but I don't see that it has the hype or following to produce the same returns as the ones I mentioned above (or even a fraction of Maxcoin for that matter).

Cheers!

[bigjme]

look, we've got a logo

love the logo lmao. ok then so i left my miner running all night on a pool, 16 hours and i got.... 2.5MAX
doesn't look like i will be leaving my miners on now till we find something new :-)


My thoughts on the suggested coins

Protoshares - popular, highly valued, already has a gpu miner available (only binary I think), though it appears to be far from reaching optimal performance on nvidia, so likely opencl only at the moment. My single GTX 770 earns me a little over .5 PTS a day (1GH pool) and only using 70% power. (1PTS trades for 0.015BTC)

i think that coin depends on earnings, its been round a while and if you can only earn that in a day its not entirely worth while without huge improvements through cudaminer

Primecoin - popular, currently CPU only (suspecting this one would prove to be a challenge in terms of optimizing for GPU at all, but perhaps cuda specifically would make it worthwile). It's not highly valued, but stable and also very popular. The potential on this one is for a GPU implementation to break into new performance figures, thus making it largely profitable for a relative time.

PPC we would need to earn around 3 PPC per day to get 0.02btc
probably more viable then Protoshares especially with no gpu miner yet, again would depend on performance

On Riecoin that was just mentioned: It's technically very similar to Primecoin, but yet to be launched. Interesting opportunity if it is found to reach a good coin value for the relative performance in GPU mining, but I don't see that it has the hype or following to produce the same returns as the ones I mentioned above (or even a fraction of Maxcoin for that matter).

i think most coins atleast get a decent launch price, but as they say, this could not work out with their technique. we have a little over 1 day until the launch. and with the cpu miner not being released till launch time, the first blocks with no rewards may give us time to get cudaminer ready

the first 576 blocks will have no reward and the next 576 will linearly increase and reach the full reward at block 1152, after 4 difficulty adjustments were performed. Besides avoiding instamining, this should allow time for those who want to compile their own clients.
Expect the starting difficulty to be hard.
Riecoin's starting (and minimum) difficulty is 304 bits

[old_pioner]

Yeah, forgot about protoshares, that's pretty dan good too: 2100cpm = 0.73pts/day.

Cudaminer worked on PTS? Learn me how to please. What the --algo need use?

[cbuchner1]

Yeah, forgot about protoshares, that's pretty dan good too: 2100cpm = 0.73pts/day.

Cudaminer worked on PTS? Learn me how to please. What the --algo need use?

not this cudaminer, but there is a cuda miner for PTS authored by Dave Andersen (the same guy who sped up scrypt hashing in December)

[patoberli]

Now that the maxcoin turbulences have slowed down a little, what rate do you get with a GT-640 on MAX?
I currently get 24.8 mh/s on my card.

[ivanlabrie]

Now that the maxcoin turbulences have slowed down a little, what rate do you get with a GT-640 on MAX?
I currently get 24.8 mh/s on my card.

GT 640s rock so much
You got the 4gb flavor?

I'm still at 200mh/s, fixed my cpu temp issues and now it stays pegged there even while browsing (GTX 780 at 1306/3665)

I'm gonna try scrypt and the rest again, my cpu was holding me back.

[patoberli]

No, having the cheap 2 GB DDR3 one.

[bigjme]

christian did you see the post earlier about the 3 coins?

[cbuchner1]

kind of busy at work here so I will answer your posts a bit later. thanks.

[bigjme]

i forget that you work other then doing this xD

[ivanlabrie]

Quick question to you guys: vertcoin 780 settings.

I was trying these and getting 350kh/s but it crashes after a while no matter what clocks I set:

--algo=scrypt:2048 -d 0 -H 2 -C 1 -l T12x20 -i 0

Any suggestions?

Also, I might switch to UTC if I can get better than 400kh/s that I currently am at...any tips?

[djm34]

Quick question to you guys: vertcoin 780 settings.

I was trying these and getting 350kh/s but it crashes after a while no matter what clocks I set:

--algo=scrypt:2048 -d 0 -H 2 -C 1 -l T12x20 -i 0

Any suggestions?

Also, I might switch to UTC if I can get better than 400kh/s that I currently am at...any tips?

I get around 320khash (vertcoin) at 15x32 (a little more if I use H1 rather than H2), but it is with a 780ti
May-be you could try with a 780 T14x32 (14 being the number of smx)

edit: it is not really the number of smx which counts but rather how the work is shared between the cuda core, that's why it seems to me always better to use such "magical" number... (and this is very obvious when looking at the autotune numbers)

[Stanr010]

Jesus. BTC just took a tumble 

Either someone had fat fingers and entered the wrong number, bots got confused, or a bunch of coins were stolen and dumped. Today's going to be a rough day...

[Mav2000]

The latest miner seems to get a lot more yay's as compared to before. Thanks for the effort.

[patoberli]

Jesus. BTC just took a tumble  

Either someone had fat fingers and entered the wrong number, bots got confused, or a bunch of coins were stolen and dumped. Today's going to be a rough day...

I think that might still be because mtgox currently can't really pay out to USD. On the other hand, it always goes down and up every few weeks by some 50-100 USD.

[yupee]

Christian, is it possible to subscribe to your git account, so that I get an update for the new versions?

[ManIkWeet]

Jesus. BTC just took a tumble 

Either someone had fat fingers and entered the wrong number, bots got confused, or a bunch of coins were stolen and dumped. Today's going to be a rough day...

Well BTC-E had a big BTC sell for $102 each, which is probably a bigger reason than Mt.Gox being bad.

[djm34]

Jesus. BTC just took a tumble  

Either someone had fat fingers and entered the wrong number, bots got confused, or a bunch of coins were stolen and dumped. Today's going to be a rough day...

It was worst this morning... I went to buy a new graphic card, at first the bitcoin was at 413euros... hopefully when I was about to pay, it was at 470euro... well this isn't a really good deal but still...
Finally bought a MSI R9-290x Gaming edition... hope there won't be any problem to have it in the same computer as the gtx780ti...

[sub-80]

Hey guys;

have a GTX 780 and have this in bat file "cudaminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://ltc-eu.give-me-coins.com:3333 -O user:pwd"



Have a few questions:
1-Does autotune give the highest number hash?
2-Does cudaminer autotune everytime i launch it?
3-if autotune does not give the highest number, any suggestions on how to increase them without overclocking the card?

Thanks 

1: Yes Its supposed to when autotune is working. In the latest version it is most definitely working. However, depending on what your card is doing during an autotune can effect autotune so run it 5-10 times and see which config gives you the best preformace and play around it the -C argument (0, 1,2)
2: Not if you give it a specific config you want it to launch with.
3: Autotune multiple time and find the fastest config then plug in and play with the -H -C arguments and you can normally squeeze out some more extra bits of hash. Plus try adding one or two to the numbers in your -l T config.

Thanks for the info will definitely try that.

Here's another question: I have a gtx 460 lying around is it possible to stick that into my current pc and have it mine while not interfering with the 780 which i use for gaming and mining? If so is that possible with a radeon card?

How do you differentiate between them via cudaminer? How can you make each bat file only operate one specific graphics card?

[djm34]

Jesus. BTC just took a tumble  

Either someone had fat fingers and entered the wrong number, bots got confused, or a bunch of coins were stolen and dumped. Today's going to be a rough day...

Well BTC-E had a big BTC sell for $102 each, which is probably a bigger reason than Mt.Gox being bad.

Seriously who are these people who are selling at that price ?