[Work in progess] Burnins Avalon Chip to mining board service

[aopa38]

Will the Burnin Mining rigs plug and play with MinePeon and the stock CG Miner or do we need a special version?

Yes, plug & play. There is additional option (voltage regulation) not yet supported by stock CG Miner, but you probably won't need to touch it at all.

Im pretty sure nearly all will need this feature because nearly all want to overclock. Its only possible to achieve high hashrates with overvolting...

The needed changes are already being commited into the cgminer.
Hopefully all that will be reasonable stable by next week.

I am currently at my contractor to supervise the production.
We making good progress even though there were a few delays here and there, which is to be expected when going from prototype to production.
No pretty photos this time since the first batch is done at my second contractor that doesn't allow photos to be taken in their production facility.
But there will be when i am back.

Thanks for the update Burnin 

[madmax_ger]

I currently work with MinePeon, second link, and (sorry) can't recommend it for 24/7 unmonitored usage.
It might be fixed yet, but my config seems to be killed sometimes, the only way to fix the latest crash was
to stop the cgminer service and run it by hand with the config file on chmod 555. this prevents nightly restarts.

after the latest crash, even rewriting the config, cgminer refused to start all the way.
now it's running 24/7 without restart.

MinePeon was the easiest way for me to get used to RaspPi and mining with it, but I will reconfig to pure Raspbian soon I guess.
It's a very nice piece of software but I don't trust it anymore after these downtimes.

Did you use the latest rlease 0.2.2?

I checked it, I'm running 0.2.0. I will try an update and see if it works out, thanks!

[pajak666]

Regarding my last question - I meant it in more a gray area sort of way. I read the OP and what I thought was that it doesn't matter when you order, it is when the chips arrive. But what I really is, is there a danger of waiting too long (and then maybe getting your chips) but then the boards are sold out, where as if I ordered a board now, it would be held for me? Perhaps I'm making it more complicated than it is. My first buy so excuse my ignorance. ;-)

+1
I would like to pay when my batch of chips will be on the way to SebastianJu, is there any reason why I shouldn't do it and make my order now?

[eraziel]

Will the Burnin Mining rigs plug and play with MinePeon and the stock CG Miner or do we need a special version?

Yes, plug & play. There is additional option (voltage regulation) not yet supported by stock CG Miner, but you probably won't need to touch it at all.

Im pretty sure nearly all will need this feature because nearly all want to overclock. Its only possible to achieve high hashrates with overvolting...

The needed changes are already being commited into the cgminer.
Hopefully all that will be reasonable stable by next week.

I am currently at my contractor to supervise the production.
We making good progress even though there were a few delays here and there, which is to be expected when going from prototype to production.
No pretty photos this time since the first batch is done at my second contractor that doesn't allow photos to be taken in their production facility.
But there will be when i am back.

How many days will it take to fulfill all batch 1 orders? Are you going to ship them together once all are completed or are you going to ship them whenever you have enough boards to fulfill an order?

[SebastianJu]

Burnin mentioned a protocoll that is better to bitburner would be possible. I know this would mean much work but would there be a remarkable effect for hashrate at the end?

[Its About Sharing]

I don't think this is a bad place to bring this up and perhaps it will benefit others as well:

Can someone point me in the direction to learn more about how to overclock on CGMiner?
I am running a Raspberry Pi with MinePeon (CGMiner is the default) and would like to learn more and be ready for the day the chips ship ;-)
Hmmm, maybe I could run two instances of CGMiner on my Pi, one for overclocked hardware and the other for non?
(I used to overclock video cards back in the day but am wet behind the ears here.)

Thanks guys,
IAS

[eraziel]

no updates?

[kano]

I don't think this is a bad place to bring this up and perhaps it will benefit others as well:

Can someone point me in the direction to learn more about how to overclock on CGMiner?
I am running a Raspberry Pi with MinePeon (CGMiner is the default) and would like to learn more and be ready for the day the chips ship ;-)
Hmmm, maybe I could run two instances of CGMiner on my Pi, one for overclocked hardware and the other for non?
(I used to overclock video cards back in the day but am wet behind the ears here.)

Thanks guys,
IAS

The cgminer README and ASIC-README
any option that looks like --avalon-*

For voltage it's the --bitburner-voltage in this pull request:
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/pull/467

[itod]

For the lazy ones who won't bother to look at the code :

Default voltage is set to 1.2V:

Code:

#define BITBURNER_DEFAULT_CORE_VOLTAGE 1200 /* in millivolts */

And there are two functions to set and get the voltage:

Code:

static void bitburner_set_core_voltage(struct cgpu_info *avalon, int core_voltage)
static int bitburner_get_core_voltage(struct cgpu_info *avalon)

[Its About Sharing]

Thanks guys for the comments/help and insults   
I'll take the latter when it comes with the former.   
You seriously saved me hours and that is appreciated.

Didn't realize it was so easy. I'll do the required reading.
Seems just as easy as when I overclocked my Celeron (was it?) like around in 2000 or so. Was as much bang for the buck as these. Forget the chip but it was known as the most overclock for the buck.

Thanks again, much appreciated.

It's about sharing

[shapemaker]

Seems just as easy as when I overclocked my Celeron (was it?) like around in 2000 or so. Was as much bang for the buck as these. Forget the chip but it was known as the most overclock for the buck.

That would have been the Celeron 300A. That one overclocked to 450 MHz with just a FSB bus increase from 66 Mhz to 100 MHz.

Old memories...

[Its About Sharing]

Seems just as easy as when I overclocked my Celeron (was it?) like around in 2000 or so. Was as much bang for the buck as these. Forget the chip but it was known as the most overclock for the buck.

That would have been the Celeron 300A. That one overclocked to 450 MHz with just a FSB bus increase from 66 Mhz to 100 MHz.

Old memories...

Yeah, that is it! My neighbor had one to per my suggestion. Really amazing. But going from 300 to 450MHz (50%) is even a bit less as going from from 282Mh to 450Mh (60%).
Let that sink in...

As long as the chips don't burn out with regular air cooling that is even better than the BEST CPU chip with over clocking ever got...

IAS

[alexuk]

Hi Burnin

Any updates today? sleeping on the production floor? Listening to the sweet humm and ticks of avalon chips being stamped? :-)

Are the first boards coming off the assembly line stable / happy?

[2weiX]

is there an overwiev of which batches by which group buy have arrived as of yet?

[turtle83]

is there an overwiev of which batches by which group buy have arrived as of yet?

I think only zefir batch #1 has arrived.

[Micky25]

is there an overwiev of which batches by which group buy have arrived as of yet?

I think only zefir batch #1 has arrived.

so, for the moment this overview stays concise. 

[eraziel]

As mentioned several times in other threads there are some other batches that have been shipped, just not related to any of the group buys on the forums.

[burnin]

Hi Burnin

Any updates today? sleeping on the production floor? Listening to the sweet humm and ticks of avalon chips being stamped? :-)

Are the first boards coming off the assembly line stable / happy?

Update:
Production is now in full swing.
There were some problems that held us back on the first 2 days but now everything is sorted.
I tested two boards over night, they were stable, even with overclocking.
Until delivery cgminer and the firmware will contain everything needed.
Even though the customers from batch 1 might have to perform a firmware update right after unboxing.
Instructions for assembly and firmware updating will be provided next week.

I am still terribly busy organizing everything, its like whack a mole, one problem/request solved another 2 pop up.
But there's light at the end of the tunnel.
I can currently only process a few customer service requests per day, so be patient.

[BenTuras]

Excellent! I'll be ready for them next week

[alexuk]

Hi Burnin

Any updates today? sleeping on the production floor? Listening to the sweet humm and ticks of avalon chips being stamped? :-)

Are the first boards coming off the assembly line stable / happy?

Update:
Production is now in full swing.
There were some problems that held us back on the first 2 days but now everything is sorted.
I tested two boards over night, they were stable, even with overclocking.
Until delivery cgminer and the firmware will contain everything needed.
Even though the customers from batch 1 might have to perform a firmware update right after unboxing.
Instructions for assembly and firmware updating will be provided next week.

I am still terribly busy organizing everything, its like whack a mole, one problem/request solved another 2 pop up.
But there's light at the end of the tunnel.
I can currently only process a few customer service requests per day, so be patient.

Thanks for the update!

Where can i send the pizza?