hsrminer - Nvidia mining software for various algos by palgin&alexkap

[reb0rn21]

Yeah but both 0 and 1 card is names as first card

1070 1264kh, ccminer is doing 1223kh  ---- 5% faster

1080 940, ccminer is doing ~1050kh   ---- 10% slower

yeah I used 2 programs to run each

but CPU usage is high too, duno if you can run more cards on celeron
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4x GTX 1080ti, i5 stuck at 100%, miner start and work 30sec and then exit

Cuda error in func 'neoscrypt_cpu_hash_1080' at line 1430 : the launch timed out and was terminated.

3x GTX 1080ti works per i5 CPU.... there is some speedup of almost 10% (WRONG pool side is no good!)

1x GTX 1080Ti looks to works fine pool side!
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5x GTX 1070 on celeron -> crash

[Elder III]

Windows usually flags miner programs as viruses, so nothing unusual there.

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This is what I get when I try to run the miner on my personal computer with 2 x GTX 1080 Ti in it. I tried it with -d 0 and the results are the same. Is it just not initializing the GPUs since they are Ti models? I will try to test it on some 1060s when I get a chance.

[reb0rn21]

1st it is important to make option to solve CPU hog, 99% mining rigs are 4-6 cards in dual core CPU, even i5 can run more then 3 GPU atm

[laguseklik]

Hi, have you plan to have a website for this software/project?

[palgin]

Yeah but both 0 and 1 card is names as first card

1070 1264kh, ccminer is doing 1223kh  ---- 5% faster

1080 940, ccminer is doing ~1050kh   ---- 10% slower

yeah I used 2 programs to run each

but CPU usage is high too, duno if you can run more cards on celeron
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4x GTX 1080ti, i5 stuck at 100%, miner start and work 30sec and then exit

Cuda error in func 'neoscrypt_cpu_hash_1080' at line 1430 : the launch timed out and was terminated.

3x GTX 1080ti works per i5 CPU.... there is some speedup of almost 10% (WRONG pool side is no good!)

1x GTX 1080Ti looks to works fine pool side!
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5x GTX 1070 on celeron -> crash

Thank you for your feedback, will try to move more work to GPU itself, this should lower CPU usage significanlty, but this is how my kernel operates and I need to find workaround for this without speed drops.

However, your 1080 speed is way too low, think it's the "duplicate share" situaton, in that case GPU does "fake" work which isn't counted during hashrate calculation.

P.S: most of my farms are 5xGTX 1060 3G, CPUs on all are AMD FX-4100, current version loads 87% CPU, no crashes overnight.

[palgin]

Windows usually flags miner programs as viruses, so nothing unusual there.

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This is what I get when I try to run the miner on my personal computer with 2 x GTX 1080 Ti in it. I tried it with -d 0 and the results are the same. Is it just not initializing the GPUs since they are Ti models? I will try to test it on some 1060s when I get a chance.

Thank you for participation, you need to configure desired pool, username and pass first using command-line options and run via batfile, check hsrminer -h for list of avaliable commands. Ti's are supported.

[palgin]

Hi, have you plan to have a website for this software/project?

Hi, no, currently no website planned, software is in early beta stage and is not popular at all, need to polish it first, add more algos, features and so on.

[reb0rn21]

Also check pls why one 1080ti works fine and 3x with -d 0,1,2 hash same speed as one card on pool
hash reported by miner is fine

[palgin]

Also check pls why one 1080ti works fine and 3x with -d 0,1,2 hash same speed as one card on pool
hash reported by miner is fine

OK, I'll check. Won't you mind if I ask you in PM to test nightly build on 1080Ti when fix will be ready?
Unfortunately, I don't have any Ti's, as I know it has non-typical Memory amount and also strange memory interface width, so core tweaking would definitely be needed.

P.S.: situation with Ti's may be caused by this "duplicate avalanche" bug too, but need to check.

[reb0rn21]

sure...

[palgin]

UPDATE: made fix for high CPU load, now it's barely loading CPU, added ccminer-style intensity option to play with, but work distribution bug is still there, so work continues...

Please, re-download binary from github, I've uploaded CPU-fix + intensity feature version. Tested intensities are 17.5 for 1080/1070, 16 for 1060 3G.

Thank you!

[reb0rn21]

GTX 1080ti now no way to start...

Cuda error in func 'neoscrypt_cpu_hash_1080' at line 1427 : an illegal memory access was encountered.

[palgin]

GTX 1080ti now no way to start...

Cuda error in func 'neoscrypt_cpu_hash_1080' at line 1427 : an illegal memory access was encountered.

Play a bit with intensity, put -i 17.5 or -i 18 or -i 18.5, default one won't work with 1080ti

[reb0rn21]

GTX 1080ti now no way to start...

Cuda error in func 'neoscrypt_cpu_hash_1080' at line 1427 : an illegal memory access was encountered.

Play a bit with intensity, put -i 17.5 or -i 18 or -i 18.5, default one won't work with 1080ti

I have, first version worked fir 1  card, this one does not on gtx1080ti
maybe -i does not work

also tried -i 14 in gtx1070 it start but all shares are invalid, -i 17 works

[shubaduba]

GTX 1080ti now no way to start...

Cuda error in func 'neoscrypt_cpu_hash_1080' at line 1427 : an illegal memory access was encountered.

Play a bit with intensity, put -i 17.5 or -i 18 or -i 18.5, default one won't work with 1080ti

I can't even start 1070 at -i 10.
I have the latest 388.71 driver installed.

[palgin]

GTX 1080ti now no way to start...

Cuda error in func 'neoscrypt_cpu_hash_1080' at line 1427 : an illegal memory access was encountered.

Play a bit with intensity, put -i 17.5 or -i 18 or -i 18.5, default one won't work with 1080ti

I can't even start 1070 at -i 10.
I have the latest 388.71 driver installed.

Little explanation, it won't work at -i 10 because it needs exact number of threads running. Each thread requires some amount of memory allocated on Host and on Device, high speed is gained by rolling only those operations that needed by algorithm without idling. For 1060 3G kernel reaches ~95% efficiency, 1070 ~90% efficiency, 1080(not Ti) ~47-50% efficiency, so for GDDR5X memory it's still space for improvement, but it can only be gained by another memory dealing technique which I have ~0 practice at.

For single 1070 intensity should be 16.5 or 17.5 to start correctly. Seems multiple card rigs won't start correctly after CPU fix, but you're free to launch 1 instance per card, without CPU load it's the way to avoid launch failures.

Regarding illegal memory accesses, C-part of hsrminer code, including correct work distribution among GPUs, is alexkap's work, but I haven't received any info from him, somewhere in code multiple theads are treated as one (GPU0 thread), you can see it when launch single card with number other than 0.
I can spend hours digging alexkap's code and find this nasty bug, but it would be better to get answer from him directly first. Maybe he's dissapointed because nobody's using HSR version and decided to quit this project, I dunno, I haven't been informed about that. I'll solve problems in the order they appear.

[palgin]

UPDATE: found source of that nasty "one binary - one card" bug, now I have to remap all memory pins in kernels to fix hashing. Still far from flawless run, but it's progress  



P.S.: on a screenshot you can see thr0 and thr1 are 1080's, thr2 is 1070 and they run together without conflicts (but now hashing is broken)

UPDATE2: done, nearly 0 CPU usage and different configs start falwlessly (if intensity's defined right, of course). Will re-upload to GitHub in 10-15 minutes.

[palgin]

Download updated, you can check latest version in the first post of this thread.

GTX 1080 (not Ti),1070 and 1060 3Gb users should run without any problems without intensity tweaks.
All 1060 6Gb, 1080Ti and higher grade card owners should tweak intensity first to fit their hardware. 9xx family and lower not supported in this release.

Please, send feedback, I need to be sure problem is fixed permanently.

[reb0rn21]

GTX 1070 + 1080 now hash with one instance fine... gtx 1080 speed match ccminer speed I think there is room for it (pool side is now fine)
1080 like need more memory OC, with +500mhz it give 1140khs


will test 1080ti and 1070 rigs later

[palgin]

GTX 1070 + 1080 now hash with one instance fine... gtx 1080 speed match ccminer speed I think there is room for it (pool side is now fine)
1080 like need more memory OC, with +500mhz it give 1140khs


will test 1080ti and 1070 rigs later

Can you clarify who is manufacturer of your 1080? And which memory is onboard (Micron, Hynix or Samsung)? All my 1080's hash 1280+ without overclock, manufacturer is KFA2, memory is Micron.

Any intensity tweaks, OC, TDP limiting, or running on defaults?