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

[semajjames]

Should "cudaminer" work on X11 ?

Nope. For that you need ccminer!
~ Myagui

Thanks
            I have now got ccminer v 1.2 from page one with an old 8800 GTX GPU. When i run it with this .bat the miner runs and i see some very high kh/s, Straturm detects new blocks but no accepts also GPUZ reads "no GPU load" and the miner does not show up at the pool !!

Am i missing something in this .bat file ?

color 0A
ccminer.exe --algo=x11 -o stratum+tcp://mine.xpool.ca:8888 -u XfPufoyE8XSR1gDbVW2idBUsAJuwcBmFZo -p x -v 256

it won't work, you need some custom built supporting old compute version (what is the compute version of the 8800 gtx ?)
it should show up in gpu-z

compute version = vs 1.0

I am not sure it is even possible to go back that far...

It may be possible, but certainly not worth the effort.

Oh thats a shame because i have 8 x 8800 series cards i could get on free electric but they run way way to hot when scrypt minning

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[djm34]

Should "cudaminer" work on X11 ?

Nope. For that you need ccminer!
~ Myagui

Thanks
            I have now got ccminer v 1.2 from page one with an old 8800 GTX GPU. When i run it with this .bat the miner runs and i see some very high kh/s, Straturm detects new blocks but no accepts also GPUZ reads "no GPU load" and the miner does not show up at the pool !!

Am i missing something in this .bat file ?

color 0A
ccminer.exe --algo=x11 -o stratum+tcp://mine.xpool.ca:8888 -u XfPufoyE8XSR1gDbVW2idBUsAJuwcBmFZo -p x -v 256

it won't work, you need some custom built supporting old compute version (what is the compute version of the 8800 gtx ?)
it should show up in gpu-z

compute version = vs 1.0

I am not sure it is even possible to go back that far...

It may be possible, but certainly not worth the effort.

it wouldn't be obvious either lots of the features requires at least compute 1.2...

[djm34]

Is there any plan to get the Skein algo running with nvminer or ccminer? I didnt see it included in the release notes.

This is fpga territory (as for any single algo), what do you have in mind ?

[bathrobehero]

Disk wise, use a full system with raid cards and the drives raided together. It would look like a single disk to the os but writing would write to all disks at the same time. So 2 disks could handle twice as many writes at the same time.

So a proper raid card would be maybe 8 HDDs raided together giving 8 times the disk io for writes.

It has draw backs though

Disk speed is not an issue as even with an overclocked i5 intel it's only "hashing" at around 21 MB/s which is very far off from what HDDs are capable of. And you wouldn't need RAID, just multiple instances generating to one HDD each.

[bigjme]

Disk wise, use a full system with raid cards and the drives raided together. It would look like a single disk to the os but writing would write to all disks at the same time. So 2 disks could handle twice as many writes at the same time.

So a proper raid card would be maybe 8 HDDs raided together giving 8 times the disk io for writes.

It has draw backs though

Disk speed is not an issue as even with an overclocked i5 intel it's only "hashing" at around 21 MB/s which is very far off from what HDDs are capable of. And you wouldn't need RAID, just multiple instances generating to one HDD each.

that was in a response to a question from djm, in regards to using a gpu to generate them. obviously it would most likely generate much more but even at that, it would need to be roughly 8 times as many to max out a hdd

[tarzanbigcity]

Is there any plan to get the Skein algo running with nvminer or ccminer? I didnt see it included in the release notes.

This is fpga territory (as for any single algo), what do you have in mind ?

Myriad and Digibyte both support Skein as part of their multi-ago approach. AMD supports Skein so why not us? Keep everything on a level playing field.

[coinits]

Is there any plan to get the Skein algo running with nvminer or ccminer? I didnt see it included in the release notes.

This is fpga territory (as for any single algo), what do you have in mind ?

Myriad and Digibyte both support Skein as part of their multi-ago approach. AMD supports Skein so why not us? Keep everything on a level playing field.

I'm sure that if you donated some btc to a dev they would do it.

[jk_14]

So there isn't any CUDA 5.5 compatible updates ? 

You actually need 6.0. Why the hell do you have a compute 5.0 card and a driver that doesn't even support compute 5.0 specific shit?

Cause I'm using Linux KopiemTu 1.4.

Waiting for the next 2.0 Release including latest Nvidia updates.

May-be you should discuss with KopiemTu dev so he upgrade his project, I think we made it clear a few months back, that we won't support anymore 5.5. (mostly because it takes forever to compile).

Now if you want to compile with 5.5 you need to remove compute_50/sm_50 it should work (may-be not on the optimization level though...)

cuda 6.5 almost finished...
https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=16800.msg203754#msg203754

[Odeyin]

It is like being in a Ferrari behind a trailer and no way to pass... 

Not if the road is wide enough 

i will donate some burst if u make one

well trust me it is a small mountain road, like the one you don't like to see trailer (even if you are not in Ferrari)

u mean the CPU is the bottleneck ? If so , it's good news. Meaning the coin is truly GPU resistance

I wonder if we use burst coin with an Cuda Intergrated CPU/GPU like the Tegra TK-1...and hook that up to a SSD farm. Would we be able to plot faster using the 192 cores to plot or would it still get slowed down by the 4 Arm cores?

[semajjames]

I don't get it
                   Why is it not possible to to down tune cudaMiner is there no intensity setting ?

[coinits]

It is like being in a Ferrari behind a trailer and no way to pass...  

Not if the road is wide enough  

i will donate some burst if u make one

well trust me it is a small mountain road, like the one you don't like to see trailer (even if you are not in Ferrari)

u mean the CPU is the bottleneck ? If so , it's good news. Meaning the coin is truly GPU resistance

I wonder if we use burst coin with an Cuda Intergrated CPU/GPU like the Tegra TK-1...and hook that up to a SSD farm. Would we be able to plot faster using the 192 cores to plot or would it still get slowed down by the 4 Arm cores?

Within the next couple of hours or so you will be able to mine burst using ccminer x11 algo and others (Scrypt/Keccak/SHA/Scrypt-N/NIST5) when the multipool goes live. There is one now for scrypt. Damn I forgot how hot CUDA was to CCMINER Domain = http://BurstMultipool.com

Current scrypt one is = http://burstmp.com/ which gives about 0.0005 btc per MHS per day.

[myagui]

@Satoshi Nakamoto @coinits: Wildly off-topic, but note that your signature breaks the XMR address (as it does for everyone).

Code:

42hzGJ1EPfMGQEfFxXQpvmVYgz1GfbdF8UQacsusvV5aDDYqycKyTUfWKA1b3FoVbrjDdR2gK2syJLU<there-is-a-space-here>AuETFbWVqJrUJgV2

~ Myagui

[coinits]

@Satoshi Nakamoto @coinits: Wildly off-topic, but note that your signature breaks the XMR address (as it does for everyone).

Code:

42hzGJ1EPfMGQEfFxXQpvmVYgz1GfbdF8UQacsusvV5aDDYqycKyTUfWKA1b3FoVbrjDdR2gK2syJLU<there-is-a-space-here>AuETFbWVqJrUJgV2

~ Myagui

Changed it anyway. Thanks.

[Travis9x]

I don't get it
                   Why is it not possible to to down tune cudaMiner is there no intensity setting ?

Generally, you just do that with your GPU controller software.  For example, I don't want to let my cards get above 70deg C, so I set a thermal limit in MSI Afterburner to 70.  Afterburner will automatically throttle back my cards (if necessary) to keep them under 70.  Any GPU-management software will generally have some kind of similar feature to control your cards and prevent overheating.

[crazycoin]

Is there any plan to get the Skein algo running with nvminer or ccminer? I didnt see it included in the release notes.

This is fpga territory (as for any single algo), what do you have in mind ?

Myriad and Digibyte both support Skein as part of their multi-ago approach. AMD supports Skein so why not us? Keep everything on a level playing field.

I was asking for that several months ago.Skein is very energy consuming, like scrypt. back than Nvidia would have an edge due to lower consumptions. But Myriad coin proces crashed.

[miner256]

I have been away for a while, so just catching up.

Just downloaded the new ccminer code from github.
Installed latest CUDA 6.5
Install latest mpir 2.7 (alpha 10)
Deleted everything except compute_50 from Makefile.am

All very straightforward, and very fast compile.

First indications suggest about 5+% faster on X11 and X15 at least (750Ti)

Thanks djm34 for continued great work

[bigjme]

As a heads up to anyone that is interested, ive noticed a huge slow down in cudamining.co.uk recently, with page loads shooting from 50ms to roughly 600ms, which is a huge difference and i'm unsure why

So a new custom server is being set up specifically for cudamining.co.uk to handle the extra load and allow me some more room to upgrade the server

[bigjme]

ok the new webserver for cudamining.co.uk has been set up and is running. Please let me know if you notice and downtime, slow page loads (more then 500ms) and any issues/error mesages

I have also modified the design slightly so its easier for web browsers to load and mobile devices will have a better time.
I hope everyone viewing the website on a mobile device likes the new menu

[PeaMine]

I have been away for a while, so just catching up.

Just downloaded the new ccminer code from github.
Installed latest CUDA 6.5
Install latest mpir 2.7 (alpha 10)
Deleted everything except compute_50 from Makefile.am

All very straightforward, and very fast compile.

First indications suggest about 5+% faster on X11 and X15 at least (750Ti)

Thanks djm34 for continued great work

I have CUDA 6.5 installed and mpir 2.7 alpha 10, what should I delete from Makefile.am ?

Here is what I get:
ptxas warning : 'option -abi=no' might get deprecated in future
ptxas info    : 0 bytes gmem, 16688 bytes cmem[3]
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z24whirlpool512_gpu_hash_64ijPmPj' for 'sm_35'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 344 bytes cmem[0], 132 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z24whirlpool512_gpu_hash_80ijPv' for 'sm_35'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 336 bytes cmem[0], 4 bytes cmem[2], 120 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z29whirlpool512_gpu_finalhash_64ijPmPjS0_' for 'sm_35'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 352 bytes cmem[0], 672 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z28m7_whirlpool512_gpu_hash_120ijPm' for 'sm_35'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 336 bytes cmem[0], 852 bytes lmem
ptxas warning : 'option -abi=no' might get deprecated in future
ptxas info    : 0 bytes gmem, 16688 bytes cmem[3]
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z24whirlpool512_gpu_hash_64ijPmPj' for 'sm_50'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 344 bytes cmem[0], 120 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z24whirlpool512_gpu_hash_80ijPv' for 'sm_50'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 336 bytes cmem[0], 4 bytes cmem[2], 12 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z29whirlpool512_gpu_finalhash_64ijPmPjS0_' for 'sm_50'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 352 bytes cmem[0], 348 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z28m7_whirlpool512_gpu_hash_120ijPm' for 'sm_50'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 336 bytes cmem[0], 384 bytes lmem
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/ccminer'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/ccminer'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[djm34]

I have been away for a while, so just catching up.

Just downloaded the new ccminer code from github.
Installed latest CUDA 6.5
Install latest mpir 2.7 (alpha 10)
Deleted everything except compute_50 from Makefile.am

All very straightforward, and very fast compile.

First indications suggest about 5+% faster on X11 and X15 at least (750Ti)

Thanks djm34 for continued great work

I have CUDA 6.5 installed and mpir 2.7 alpha 10, what should I delete from Makefile.am ?

Here is what I get:
ptxas warning : 'option -abi=no' might get deprecated in future
ptxas info    : 0 bytes gmem, 16688 bytes cmem[3]
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z24whirlpool512_gpu_hash_64ijPmPj' for 'sm_35'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 344 bytes cmem[0], 132 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z24whirlpool512_gpu_hash_80ijPv' for 'sm_35'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 336 bytes cmem[0], 4 bytes cmem[2], 120 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z29whirlpool512_gpu_finalhash_64ijPmPjS0_' for 'sm_35'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 352 bytes cmem[0], 672 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z28m7_whirlpool512_gpu_hash_120ijPm' for 'sm_35'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 336 bytes cmem[0], 852 bytes lmem
ptxas warning : 'option -abi=no' might get deprecated in future
ptxas info    : 0 bytes gmem, 16688 bytes cmem[3]
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z24whirlpool512_gpu_hash_64ijPmPj' for 'sm_50'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 344 bytes cmem[0], 120 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z24whirlpool512_gpu_hash_80ijPv' for 'sm_50'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 336 bytes cmem[0], 4 bytes cmem[2], 12 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z29whirlpool512_gpu_finalhash_64ijPmPjS0_' for 'sm_50'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 352 bytes cmem[0], 348 bytes lmem
ptxas info    : Compiling entry function '_Z28m7_whirlpool512_gpu_hash_120ijPm' for 'sm_50'
ptxas info    : Used 64 registers, 16384 bytes smem, 336 bytes cmem[0], 384 bytes lmem
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/ccminer'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/ccminer'
make: *** [all] Error 2

you need to show the error message from the compiler (few lines before what you show)