[XPM] [ANN] Primecoin High Performance | HP14 released!

[itod]

It would be nice if the hp miner reports average rate of 8-chain and 9-chains found in the last N hours, or at least just how many 7,8,9,10 chains found since the start.

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[Tamis]

It would be nice if the hp miner reports average rate of 8-chain and 9-chains found in the last N hours, or at least just how many 7,8,9,10 chains found since the start.

Yes I was thinking about this the other day. Could it be added to mininginfo or at least highest chain found ?

[Hix]

I don't know the cause of the problem although I suspect memory leak or "garbage collection" problem of some sort.

I usually many times reboot miner... everyday.

PS: Let's wait for the new version from Mikaelh)

[cabin]

It would be nice if the hp miner reports average rate of 8-chain and 9-chains found in the last N hours, or at least just how many 7,8,9,10 chains found since the start.

Yes I was thinking about this the other day. Could it be added to mininginfo or at least highest chain found ?

I made a fork that reports these things.. if Mikaelh or anyone else wants to grab the changes they are more than welcome to. 5-chains are skewed downwards a bit because I also no longer check the second bi-twin chain if it is too short to reach 9.


https://github.com/rsweny/primecoin


Looks like this in the log:
-- 5-chains/h: 400.17133
-- 6-chains/h: 36.87732
-- 7-chains/h: 3.54956
-- 8-chains/h: 0.38116
-- Ratio 7/6: 0.0963 Ratio 8/7: 0.1074
2013-09-06 19:35:37 stats   599 prime/s  15892 test/s 0.721245 chain/d | run: 41.98, avg primorial: 31.8 block/d: 0.12639732

[teknohog]

Looks like this in the log:
-- 5-chains/h: 400.17133
-- 6-chains/h: 36.87732
-- 7-chains/h: 3.54956
-- 8-chains/h: 0.38116
-- Ratio 7/6: 0.0963 Ratio 8/7: 0.1074
2013-09-06 19:35:37 stats   599 prime/s  15892 test/s 0.721245 chain/d | run: 41.98, avg primorial: 31.8 block/d: 0.12639732

The inverse ratios are more interesting, IMHO, since a value of 12 for each step has been discussed before, and it looks about right. The point was partly to illustrate the exponential nature of Primecoin difficulty, but it also enabled mining profitability estimates based on the 5-chain rate. Which seems like ancient history now, after all it's over 2 months since the launch :-j

[mhps]

It would be nice if the hp miner reports average rate of 8-chain and 9-chains found in the last N hours, or at least just how many 7,8,9,10 chains found since the start.

Yes I was thinking about this the other day. Could it be added to mininginfo or at least highest chain found ?

I made a fork that reports these things.. if Mikaelh or anyone else wants to grab the changes they are more than welcome to. 5-chains are skewed downwards a bit because I also no longer check the second bi-twin chain if it is too short to reach 9.

Thanks. Was it forked from hp10? Is there a win x64 binary?

[cabin]

It would be nice if the hp miner reports average rate of 8-chain and 9-chains found in the last N hours, or at least just how many 7,8,9,10 chains found since the start.

Yes I was thinking about this the other day. Could it be added to mininginfo or at least highest chain found ?

I made a fork that reports these things.. if Mikaelh or anyone else wants to grab the changes they are more than welcome to. 5-chains are skewed downwards a bit because I also no longer check the second bi-twin chain if it is too short to reach 9.

Thanks. Was it forked from hp10? Is there a win x64 binary?

Making the 64-bit builds on Windows has been.. traumatic. I can post the command-line only, windows 64 build if there is interest.. but I probably won't be able to do all the builds for all the platforms anytime soon. It is forked from hp 10.

[mhps]

Making the 64-bit builds on Windows has been.. traumatic. I can post the command-line only, windows 64 build if there is interest.. but I probably won't be able to do all the builds for all the platforms anytime soon. It is forked from hp 10.

I haven't used the command line miner before but if you post it I will give it a try.

[bitwarrior]

HP10 was the best, is there an ongoing work for an HP11 release soon?
Thanks

[Trillium]

HP10 64 bit

My main rig (1.7 chainsperday) no blocks since 26-Aug

Another machine (1.1 chainsperday) no blocks since 10-Aug

I'm finding the variance quite unusual lately. Perhaps I need to sacrifice a goat to the Prime Gods.

[manawenuz]

i guess solo mining is not as profitable as it used to be , i used to find 7-10 blocks a day , yesterday was 1 5 block day
I'm giving beeeeer.org a try

[Entz]

Yeah blocks are getting few and far between, sacrifice is definitely in order...

I'm giving beeeeer.org a try

It seems to be working well, the numbers for the few test machines I have pointing at it are working out way better than ypool.

[rwessels]

ypool seems to work fine for me, but I have over 250 physical cores pointed at it.  I am guessing that I am finding about 6-7 a day.  My payout is around 55-60 coins a day.  I would probably be slightly better off solo mining, but I like to be able to check my worker status on ypool to see if any machines are down.

[Pt0x]

i guess solo mining is not as profitable as it used to be , i used to find 7-10 blocks a day , yesterday was 1 5 block day
I'm giving beeeeer.org a try

Right now the pool it's down

[ivanlabrie]

i guess solo mining is not as profitable as it used to be , i used to find 7-10 blocks a day , yesterday was 1 5 block day
I'm giving beeeeer.org a try

Right now the pool it's down

Yeah, the admin must be asleep...it's still a beta but so far it worked great for me.

[ReCat]

I gave yPool a try for a proper 24-hours. On my rack server, I earned 0.01 XPM in those 24-hours. Soloing, I got a block after 3 days of mining.

My final verdict on yPool: fucking shit.

I'm going back to soloing.

[xTachibana]

I gave yPool a try for a proper 24-hours. On my rack server, I earned 0.01 XPM in those 24-hours. Soloing, I got a block after 3 days of mining.

My final verdict on yPool: fucking shit.

I'm going back to soloing.

im pretty sure you fucked up, and shouldnt be blaming ypool for your own mistakes, there is no way you only found .01 xpm in a whole day of mining without screwing something u.

[ReCat]

I gave yPool a try for a proper 24-hours. On my rack server, I earned 0.01 XPM in those 24-hours. Soloing, I got a block after 3 days of mining.

My final verdict on yPool: fucking shit.

I'm going back to soloing.

im pretty sure you fucked up, and shouldnt be blaming ypool for your own mistakes, there is no way you only found .01 xpm in a whole day of mining without screwing something u.

I just followed the instructions. I ran the 64bit miner on the website and passed the flags containing my worker name and password. are there any parameters you chose to make it mine faster?

I have an intel xeon based server, not amd.

[bcp19]

I gave yPool a try for a proper 24-hours. On my rack server, I earned 0.01 XPM in those 24-hours. Soloing, I got a block after 3 days of mining.

My final verdict on yPool: fucking shit.

I'm going back to soloing.

im pretty sure you fucked up, and shouldnt be blaming ypool for your own mistakes, there is no way you only found .01 xpm in a whole day of mining without screwing something u.

The problem here is you aren't dealing with absolutes.  On SHA-256 it takes ~72MH per minute average to solve a difficulty 1 hash.  The chains found by Primecoin are random and as ypool found out, some people could tweak to forego the longer chains and concentrate on getting mass quantities of the 6-ch, basically stealing from the honest block finders.  You could have 1000 identical CPUs running the exact same setting and see a variance unheard of in SHA-256 processing.  In unscientific terms, it's the 'luck' factor.

[ReCat]

I gave yPool a try for a proper 24-hours. On my rack server, I earned 0.01 XPM in those 24-hours. Soloing, I got a block after 3 days of mining.

My final verdict on yPool: fucking shit.

I'm going back to soloing.

im pretty sure you fucked up, and shouldnt be blaming ypool for your own mistakes, there is no way you only found .01 xpm in a whole day of mining without screwing something u.

The problem here is you aren't dealing with absolutes.  On SHA-256 it takes ~72MH per minute average to solve a difficulty 1 hash.  The chains found by Primecoin are random and as ypool found out, some people could tweak to forego the longer chains and concentrate on getting mass quantities of the 6-ch, basically stealing from the honest block finders.  You could have 1000 identical CPUs running the exact same setting and see a variance unheard of in SHA-256 processing.  In unscientific terms, it's the 'luck' factor.

So how do I do this thing that you speak of?