Bitcoin Forum
August 07, 2024, 07:21:07 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.1 [Torrent]
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Pages: « 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 »  All
  Print  
Author Topic: [XPM] CUDA enabled qt client miner for primecoins. Source code inside. WIP  (Read 31725 times)
mikaelh
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 301
Merit: 250


View Profile
July 19, 2013, 02:59:32 PM
 #21

Awesome.
So does that mean I have to order an Nvidia card now rather than the 7950 I was going to buy with the BTC I made last night off XPM? lol

Before anyone actually starts ordering new GPUs, I'd like to say that I see no reason why CUDA should outperform OpenCL. The current mining code is mostly doing integer math. As most people should know from Bitcoin/Litecoin mining, GPUs from AMD are very good at integer math. I would advise waiting until properly optimized CUDA and OpenCL miners are available until you decide which GPUs you will be buying in the future.
TheSwede75
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 224
Merit: 100



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 03:04:34 PM
Last edit: July 19, 2013, 03:15:35 PM by TheSwede75
 #22

Accepting donations for "early access" is about as close to an outright scam as you can get, and I NEVER expected the person behind reaper etc. to pull something as cheap.

It's essentially buying software. People give him money, he gives them a product. Anyone is perfectly entitled to buy, the only prerequisite is one Bitcoin, or less than $100. People in many fields purchase software and make money from the product of the software, think CAD, think Graphics Design, think electrical engineering, think multimedia...

Everyone freaks out when someone doesn't do something for free, it's a bit sad. The project will be released free, but for those who want early access, they can buy the software. He's selling a product. And taking pre-orders.

EDIT: Also, a 'scam' is generally when the person who pays money doesn't get a product. Sure we can't prove this is the true reaper developer, but if it is (and chances are high!), then it won't be a 'scam,' but rather not giving the software away to everyone. He wants to be paid for his work, but he still wants to be able to release the software as open source and support it as freeware. Mrtlt has earned like 21 Bitcoins, or around $2,000 for his efforts. If it takes him just 40 hours to develop the software, he's getting paid less than most top-notch programmers.


I have absolutely nothing against someone charging for software. What is shady is the idea of paying for priority access of a software with unknown specs, exclusive for people who are willing to 'risk' money on a gamble.

Just does not smell right. The idea of this project, a bounty and open development is far more open and honest in my opinion.
Tamis
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 476
Merit: 250



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 03:13:36 PM
 #23

Are you planning to release windows binaries ?
oroqen
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 280
Merit: 250



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 03:21:45 PM
 #24

Awesome.
So does that mean I have to order an Nvidia card now rather than the 7950 I was going to buy with the BTC I made last night off XPM? lol

Before anyone actually starts ordering new GPUs, I'd like to say that I see no reason why CUDA should outperform OpenCL. The current mining code is mostly doing integer math. As most people should know from Bitcoin/Litecoin mining, GPUs from AMD are very good at integer math. I would advise waiting until properly optimized CUDA and OpenCL miners are available until you decide which GPUs you will be buying in the future.
I refer you too http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9854/why-do-amds-gpus-mine-faster-than-nvidias

if the theory there is correct then trying to compair opencl and cuda prime searching is moot until we have some working code to test and optimize
eCoinomist
Member
**
Offline Offline

Activity: 112
Merit: 10


Independent Analyst


View Profile WWW
July 19, 2013, 03:23:30 PM
 #25

The latest client is hp5

primedigger (OP)
Member
**
Offline Offline

Activity: 75
Merit: 10


View Profile
July 19, 2013, 03:28:56 PM
 #26

Right who knows! I'm only doing this in CUDA because: I have a Nvidia graphics card and I know CUDA fairly well.

It's not even sure that GPU mining primecoins will be significantly faster. And as I said, getting big integer math on GPU right isn't exactly easy to do. If ATI or NVIDIA is faster with this, pure speculation.

Thanks for all the support!!!  I hope to have something functional soon, but progress over the weekend will be slower.

Mikaelh, since my code is a fork of your client... whats the status of your github page?
https://github.com/mikaelh2/primecoin

Or did you move permanently to bitbucket / or sourceforge with this?
mikaelh
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 301
Merit: 250


View Profile
July 19, 2013, 03:33:55 PM
 #27

Mikaelh, since my code is a fork of your client... whats the status of your github page?
https://github.com/mikaelh2/primecoin

Or did you move permanently to bitbucket / or sourceforge with this?

Github support hasn't responded to me. Right now I'm forced to use Bitbucket as a replacement.
gudmunsn
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 336
Merit: 250



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 04:09:30 PM
 #28

you sir, are awesome. I will click the trust in your name to give you some Smiley

kderaymond
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 26
Merit: 0



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 04:38:39 PM
 #29

Very excited to see this. Thank you for all your hard work, it is very much appreciated.
Eli0t
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 252
Merit: 250


View Profile
July 19, 2013, 04:49:30 PM
 #30

awesome work! cant wait  Grin

LTC:  LKpJf3uk7KsHU73kxq8iFJrP1AAKN7Yni7  DGC:  DKXGvEbj3Rwgrm2QQbRyNPDDZDYoq4Y44d  XPM:  AWV5AKfLFyoBaMjg9C77rGUBhuFxz5DGGL
xelite
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 6
Merit: 0


View Profile
July 19, 2013, 05:04:09 PM
 #31

Please compile source code for windows.
TheSwede75
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 224
Merit: 100



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 05:08:46 PM
 #32

FYI I believe there are already large prime libraries and Wuite a bit of CUDA code on Mersenne a prime solving that "should" be able to plug into a CUDA miner.

I have a few nVidia cards I would be happy to test early betas on.
ReCat
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 406
Merit: 250



View Profile WWW
July 19, 2013, 06:43:58 PM
 #33

Wow. Good job on publicizing that. Too bad I don't own any CUDA cards. Sad Can buy one, though. Been wanting to for a while just for the sake of using blender cycles.

BTC: 1recatirpHBjR9sxgabB3RDtM6TgntYUW
Hold onto what you love with all your might, Because you can never know when - Oh. What you love is now gone.
lemons
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 178
Merit: 100



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 06:48:11 PM
 #34

+1
kimosan
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 644
Merit: 501


View Profile
July 19, 2013, 06:58:45 PM
 #35

I have a few nVidia cards I would be happy to test early betas on.

Ditto.

Thank you for taking on this project.
TheSwede75
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 224
Merit: 100



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 07:08:10 PM
 #36

I have a few nVidia cards I would be happy to test early betas on.

Ditto.

Thank you for taking on this project.

Have to mention that I prefer a Win 7 x64 build over Linux since I run Win 7 native and VM's tend to be quite a bit slower.
nhminer
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 473
Merit: 250



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 07:38:50 PM
 #37

I have a few nVidia cards I would be happy to test early betas on.

Ditto.

Thank you for taking on this project.

DoubleDitto

BCH - 1EshwUEg9LRbY5WMSw7bkBGQUYQeenkcet
6strings
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 441
Merit: 250



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 08:26:23 PM
 #38

I also have several nvidia cards around to test on. Just 2x 240's but hey its testing isn't it? lol
nhminer
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 473
Merit: 250



View Profile
July 19, 2013, 08:27:53 PM
 #39

I also have several nvidia cards around to test on. Just 2x 240's but hey its testing isn't it? lol

I have a 550Ti I can run it on

BCH - 1EshwUEg9LRbY5WMSw7bkBGQUYQeenkcet
Stinky_Pete
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Activity: 560
Merit: 500


View Profile
July 19, 2013, 08:30:17 PM
 #40

I also have several nvidia cards around to test on. Just 2x 240's but hey its testing isn't it? lol

I have a 550Ti I can run it on
590 and 680 ready and waiting

Pages: « 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 »  All
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!