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

[cbuchner1]

Using CUDA 6.0 with my GeForce GT 650M (1024MB) on OS X (MacBook) seems to have reduced my performance.  Any suggestions on other configuration options that might work better with 6.0?

Thanks!

Burn it, burn it with fire! Not the Macbook. CUDA 6.0!

I baked a Macbook Pro in the oven once (PCB only)... the Geforce 8400M issue (defective nVidia chip). Afterwards it worked for 2 more months

Christian

[cbuchner1]

CUDA 6.0 might need adjusting or tweaking and it's not an official release yet just an RC for people to look at and devs to develop on, there may be issue or adjustments to software needed

Well, an RC is pretty much the finished version and only put out to make sure that there's no major flaw creeping into the release.
There was a preview version that was handed out last year under an early access program (around 2-3 months ago)

I am not very positive that these performance issues will be addressed before general release.

Christian

[chapmanjw]

Using CUDA 6.0 with my GeForce GT 650M (1024MB) on OS X (MacBook) seems to have reduced my performance.  Any suggestions on other configuration options that might work better with 6.0?

Thanks!

Burn it, burn it with fire! Not the Macbook. CUDA 6.0!

I bake a Macbook Pro in the oven once (PCB only)... the Geforce 8400M issue (defective nVidia chip). Afterwards it worked for 2 more months

Christian

With the performance decrease, the temperature of the GPU is also decreased.  So, there is at least that, LOL.

[tron666]

Using CUDA 6.0 with my GeForce GT 650M (1024MB) on OS X (MacBook) seems to have reduced my performance.  Any suggestions on other configuration options that might work better with 6.0?

Thanks!

Burn it, burn it with fire! Not the Macbook. CUDA 6.0!

I baked a Macbook Pro in the oven once (PCB only)... the Geforce 8400M issue (defective nVidia chip). Afterwards it worked for 2 more months

Christian

lol

[flatlanded]

3 ASUS ROG MARS cards are ordered. This should be close to 20 kHash/s YAC mining power - all on one mainboard.

I'm curious to see what your results will be with those as I'm currently experimenting with Yacoin and GTX760's (one 2gb and one 4gb). I'm one bad decision away from dropping some cash and putting a proper rig together.

[ivanlabrie]

3 ASUS ROG MARS cards are ordered. This should be close to 20 kHash/s YAC mining power - all on one mainboard.

I'm curious to see what your results will be with those as I'm currently experimenting with Yacoin and GTX760's (one 2gb and one 4gb). I'm one bad decision away from dropping some cash and putting a proper rig together.

I have 6 slots...should be able to run 6 r7 240s on my board. But yeah, those Mars look amazing!

[chapmanjw]

3 ASUS ROG MARS cards are ordered. This should be close to 20 kHash/s YAC mining power - all on one mainboard.

I'm curious to see what your results will be with those as I'm currently experimenting with Yacoin and GTX760's (one 2gb and one 4gb). I'm one bad decision away from dropping some cash and putting a proper rig together.

I have 6 slots...should be able to run 6 r7 240s on my board. But yeah, those Mars look amazing!

They should use CudaMiner performance in their marketing specs: http://promos.asus.com/us/ROG/MARS760/

;-)

[chapmanjw]

Using CUDA 6.0 with my GeForce GT 650M (1024MB) on OS X (MacBook) seems to have reduced my performance.  Any suggestions on other configuration options that might work better with 6.0?

Thanks!

Burn it, burn it with fire! Not the Macbook. CUDA 6.0!

I bake a Macbook Pro in the oven once (PCB only)... the Geforce 8400M issue (defective nVidia chip). Afterwards it worked for 2 more months

Christian

With the performance decrease, the temperature of the GPU is also decreased.  So, there is at least that, LOL.

Went back to 5.5, back to 70+ Kh/s. 

[Morgahl]

Using CUDA 6.0 with my GeForce GT 650M (1024MB) on OS X (MacBook) seems to have reduced my performance.  Any suggestions on other configuration options that might work better with 6.0?

Thanks!

Burn it, burn it with fire! Not the Macbook. CUDA 6.0!

I baked a Macbook Pro in the oven once (PCB only)... the Geforce 8400M issue (defective nVidia chip). Afterwards it worked for 2 more months

Christian

Yay for reflow!

Did similar for a red ringed XBox rev 1

[EvilAxist]

cudaminer-2014-02-09.zip [32+64bit version] (7.1 MB) more stratum fixes for Maxcoin (fixes the boo's!)
SHA256 sum: ef37c97562d98cb95a7a243d8bb378250d9f067b62db239435e6a9975a83a3b8



^^ how is that looking for mining pandacoin?

[ManIkWeet]

I should've solo mined microCoin, according to the pool I found 2 blocks already, while the pool is at 147k reward

[coercion]

If you're on a mac, you might want to try the version 331 beta drivers (unreleased, probably waiting for 10.9.2) with CUDA 6. http://forum.netkas.org/index.php/topic,8369.0.html
Direct link: http://us.download.nvidia.com/dMfCTEwWd5bvEIglG4b8ya6U4erhZeeC/WebDriver-331.01.01b07.pkg

I haven't installed them yet as they don't work with CUDA 5.5, though you can move a single library from 331 to the old driver to get the gk110b fix and maintain CUDA functionality.

I plan to do the install this weekend as I have a 4k monitor arriving today or tomorrow and I'll need the drivers for 60hz refresh. Glad to see CUDA 6 is moving along, I'm going to see if I can find a copy to test with 331.

[redrip]

http://imageshack.com/a/img843/3530/2ysr.png

(above logo by chapmanjw)

http://imageshack.com/a/img838/8281/3s6m.png

Here's my new pet project. I started this during the easter holidays in 2013 and this uses CUDA to squeeze up to 200%  more performance out of nVidia cards - as compared to OpenCL mining applications.  

We can do scrypt (Litecoin, Dogecoin, etc...) and scrypt-jane based coins (Yacoin, Ultracoin, etc...) as well as the keccak based Maxcoin. I am also considering adding Blake256 for BlakeCoin.

Have a look at the Google Docs Spreadsheet for configuration and performance data. Please enter new data using this form. We now also have a spreadsheet for scrypt-jane, e.g. Yacoin and the corresponding Data Entry Form. Performance data for scrypt-jane is preliminary, as the feature is under development!

Here is another (somewhat outdated and chaotic) Google Docs spreadsheet with some performance figures and associated configuration settings.

Please carefully inspect the README.txt file before use. Usage is pretty much identical to pooler's cpuminer

current testing release (use for Maxcoin!):

cudaminer-2014-02-09.zip [32+64bit version] (7.1 MB) more stratum fixes for Maxcoin (fixes the boo's!)
SHA256 sum: ef37c97562d98cb95a7a243d8bb378250d9f067b62db239435e6a9975a83a3b8

current stable release (no Maxcoin!):

cudaminer-2014-02-04.zip [32+64bit version] (6.6 MB)
SHA256 sum: 4a38026f662dd06d84f2fe0e5f5098189888de8c0e9947bc24b3cedc4b5f0fdd

previous releases:

cudaminer-2014-02-02.zip [32+64bit version] (6.6 MB) with autotune hotfix
SHA256 sum: bad402d908862995ec67fd3dddb48a82883176ac7f20cef1f228462f88b04fbb

cudaminer-2013-12-18.zip [32+64bit version] (7.2 MB)
SH256 sum: 4d505804c80bd78fa1c661f74cc5d0e39f92a86f0507abc8ff2aa2b50ffba44b
ATTENTION! Fermi based devices like GTX 560, 570, 580, 590 seem to run quite hot with this release.

cudaminer-2013-12-10.zip [32+64bit version] (10.4 MB)
SHA256 sum: f6a9b1cfcd35867978589c2f36aaef45a16d0f57494777cb14a93366222c195a

cudaminer-2013-12-07.zip [32+64bit version] (9.5 MB)
SHA256 sum: 76dcddcf6d85cbd1ebe4acbb24497bfdae0f3ca9999694c4b152917f4559263a

cudaminer-2013-12-01.zip [32+64bit version] (10.4 MB)
SHA256 sum: dfb4f3a74e534132d397e45aae2f71933a013f557c3be4299e11759c6590b2be

cudaminer-2013-11-20.zip [Update: 32+64bit version] (11.4 MB)
SHA256 sum: 2db068884d0d5683e1b379cf8b4808f55a43b2612547757ce98a8bfe8d2fa0d4

cudaminer-2013-11-15.zip (5.1 MB)
SHA256 sum: 4d4821b0539c24b8882d00caa388e6f7aa8efb2480206e4c9dc2bc95532e3837

cudaminer-2013-11-14.zip (5.4 MB)
SHA256 sum: 5a81f97e183533683373849d73fc30b0b4d287cddb83ef327b0baba006b07c4f

cudaminer-2013-11-01.zip (5.0 MB)
SHA256 sum: 27564fdbc4c41b9d6994a03f8fd2e0a14a1d4a64f0da216b06e8810b604e4ab9

cudaminer-2013-10-10.zip (4.9 MB)
SHA256 sum: 7938965a046b84734daa4332327313b48d198d808a0cf85cb3f0a27e65260c4c

cudaminer-2013-07-13.zip (3.0 MB)
SHA256 sum: d14792ffc8fb5fc910b442d802c480f4f478fa18e2fc95736f525f97a0a9ad52

cudaminer-2013-04-30.zip (3.2 MB)  [1st update for the day: fixed 1D texture limit checking bug for S kernels]
SHA256 sum: 2d81b52e1051a4f724e75b0e84e231293809437aa060d21b2fd3b8bfc5b711f2

 
If you find this useful, please donate a little. How about the first litecoin you successfully mine with this app? LKS1WDKGED647msBQfLBHV3Ls8sveGncnm      This is my "motivation address".
 

MAC-OS X compiled binaries are found here: http://www.johnchapman.net/cudaminer/  (a third party site, use at your own risk)

Required dependencies for building on Windows:
pthreads: http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
OpenSSL-Win32: http[Suspicious link removed]
curl-7.29.0: http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.29.0.zip
or in precompiled form for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 cudaminer_vc2010_prerequisites.7z (49.3 MB)

Linux compilation is also possible now:
chmod +x configure autogen.sh     (.zip does not preserve the x bit)
./autogen.sh && ./configure && make

Better grab the sourcecode from github, as the .zip file contains has Windows style line endings in all ASCII files which you would have to convert first.

Christian

Whats your take on Vertcoin and will you plan on releasing a special version like you did for Max? Big fan of your Miners, they have been giving me 150%+ on my Nvidia Cards.

/Hi-Five,
redrip

[ManIkWeet]

You had to quote the whole first post for no appearant reason

[djm34]

speaking of vertcoin (so that should also answer the "long post"), p2pool have apparently fixed their problem, and it is possible to get payout every block now even if you don't have a 10Mhash/sec system...
However the fraction of stale can be high (at some point I was getting around 30% stale... apparently increasing the difficulty seems to have solved the problem)

Actually the payout is also ten times smaller  

[69charger]

500k TTC and I'm back to YAC 

[djm34]

500k TTC and I'm back to YAC 

That's a lot of titties...

[sub-80]

I ran cudaminer on autotune and i want to know what configuration it is running on, beacuse it has been  running perfect am not sure if it is the launch config or it could be that I turned off my pc for a few hours after runing the cudaminer for three days straight. In cudaminer app I scroll up but it have already ran enough that you can't scroll up to see the launch configuration. Is there another solution? Please

[coercion]

Whats your take on Vertcoin and will you plan on releasing a special version like you did for Max? Big fan of your Miners, they have been giving me 150%+ on my Nvidia Cards.

/Hi-Five,
redrip

Use --algo=scrypt:2048 to mine Vertcoin with any of the 2014 binaries. (You'll have to do another autotune, or cut your kernel parameters in half from what you'd typically use with scrypt)

[Banin]

3 ASUS ROG MARS cards are ordered. This should be close to 20 kHash/s YAC mining power - all on one mainboard.

I'm curious to see what your results will be with those as I'm currently experimenting with Yacoin and GTX760's (one 2gb and one 4gb). I'm one bad decision away from dropping some cash and putting a proper rig together.

What is your config for the 4gb bro' ?