[ANN] [QRK] Quark | Core 0.10 upgrade

[glongsword]

cloned the git repo, and got an error message:

user@computer:~/quarkcoin-cpuminer# ./autogen.sh
configure.ac:117: `PTHREAD_FLAGS' includes configure substitution `@PTHREAD_FLAGS@'
configure.ac:117: and is referred to from `minerd_SOURCES';
configure.ac:117: configure substitutions are not allowed in _SOURCES variables

Thoughts?

Thanks!

in Makefile.am line 20
change

Code:

quark.c \

to

Code:

quark.c

enjoy))

Worked like a charm!  Thanks!

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[topminingcontracts]

What miner you recomend for Ubuntu - Centos?

Any binary?


TMC

[mrmanager]

is compiled for windows 64 ( from source code http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/cpuminer-quark.zip)
other link https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9cvOfoOekSdVzZZcThLZHg4bjA/edit?usp=sharing

Wow, this is way faster on my Windows boxes.

[Palmdetroit]

Repost. Updated

AMD Bulldozer optimized client Win64bit and maybe some intels
---===---===---===---
built from StoneFoz version1 Which doubled speed and beyond

v2 was having many issues (+reject, +orphan for me) , bin below is version 1

8150 Stock 8 cores = .8~1.1 mhash
8350 Stock 8 cores = 1~?? mhash
4300 Stock 4 cores = .46+ mhash=+

Bulldozer 1 (more compatable) and Bulldozer gen 2 (more specialized)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/philosopherstone/files/QRK/

Tips appreciated: QRK: QQVzchEu7aqAfc71NZa1TYi3toih6abCtk


Re-posting because this is not AMD bulldozer only, and may in fact work on the newer intels as well.

this is not the uber optimized client, will post when over 2mhash per chip

[ig0tik3d]

it's the same, there is a binary posted about 3 pages back that someone was nice enough to make. If you feel adventures the source has been moved to github

I can upload a binary as well if there's interest.

That would be great, I would like to see it tested on something not AMD first. There is a "makeprofile.sh" script. It now has enough warnings that I worry it may have issues if not tested. Looks good right now, but the goal is fast, not necessarily good. Anyway, if the middle two lines match anything else the script prints out, at least two hashes where done correctly....


Oh, and there is a new option.
./configure CFLAGS="-msse2 -O3 -DCHEAT"
needs testing but the idea is that it's faster to just try a new nonce that run groestl twice. Anytime that section is found to be needed ran, it just give up. Half of the hashes end up being garbage. But, it now does more than twice the speed, for a net gain. EXPERIMENTAL, need to be ran to see if actually improves payouts as it may be losing shares. Still runs that section when required, but never twice.

who want can test this new option on win64
http://rghost.ru/48416928

[eule]

I could use some testers:
http://qrkpool.tk:8868/static/ (just registered so use the one below if this one does not work)
http://yacpool.tk:8868/static/
1% fee 

I wonder if I should put Neisklar's node's IP to "BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS" in the networks.py? Great work Neisklar btw, I'll tip you tomorrow.  

edit to add: Interestingly the miner reports a much higher hashrate than the p2pool, not sure if that's a bug or if that happens on the other node too.

[K1773R]

I could use some testers:
http://qrkpool.tk:8868/static/ (just registered so use the one below if this one does not work)
http://yacpool.tk:8868/static/

I wonder if I should put Neisklar's node's IP to "BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS" in the networks.py? Great work Neisklar btw, I'll tip you tomorrow.  

edit to add: Interestingly the miner reports a much higher hashrate than the p2pool, not sure if that's a bug or if that happens on the other node too.

pls patch your miners with this

Code:

commit b1af442712ee82fe9764df3812d134a99e11e3f2
Author: Neisklar <Neisklar@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 19 19:07:28 2013 +0200

    * Move invariants out of loop (minor performance gain)
    
    * Fix issue that miner could only work with diff 0.0039... or higher (not that that matters much now:)
    * quick'n'dirty improve of hash pre-check

diff --git a/quark.c b/quark.c
index 0d2725d..01d8044 100644
--- a/quark.c
+++ b/quark.c
@@ -129,21 +164,88 @@ int scanhash_quark(int thr_id, uint32_t *pdata, const uint32_t *ptarget,
 //		applog(LOG_DEBUG, "Thr: %02d, firstN: %08x, maxN: %08x, ToDo: %d", thr_id, first_nonce, max_nonce, max_nonce-first_nonce);
 //	}
 	
+	/* I'm to lazy to put the loop in an inline function... so dirty copy'n'paste.... */
+	/* i know that i could set a variable, but i don't know how the compiler will optimize it, not that then the cpu needs to load the value *everytime* in a register */
+	if (ptarget[7]==0) {
+		do {
+			pdata[19] = ++n;
+			be32enc(&endiandata[19], n); 
+			quarkhash(hash64, &endiandata);
+			if (((hash64[7]&0xFFFFFFFF)==0) && 
+					fulltest(hash64, ptarget)) {
+				*hashes_done = n - first_nonce + 1;
+				return true;
+			}
+		} while (n < max_nonce && !work_restart[thr_id].restart);	
+	} 
+	else if (ptarget[7]<=0xF) 
+	{
+		do {
+			pdata[19] = ++n;
+			be32enc(&endiandata[19], n); 
+			quarkhash(hash64, &endiandata);
+			if (((hash64[7]&0xFFFFFFF0)==0) && 
+					fulltest(hash64, ptarget)) {
+				*hashes_done = n - first_nonce + 1;
+				return true;
+			}
+		} while (n < max_nonce && !work_restart[thr_id].restart);	
+	} 
+	else if (ptarget[7]<=0xFF) 
+	{
+		do {
+			pdata[19] = ++n;
+			be32enc(&endiandata[19], n); 
+			quarkhash(hash64, &endiandata);
+			if (((hash64[7]&0xFFFFFF00)==0) && 
+					fulltest(hash64, ptarget)) {
+				*hashes_done = n - first_nonce + 1;
+				return true;
+			}
+		} while (n < max_nonce && !work_restart[thr_id].restart);	
+	} 
+	else if (ptarget[7]<=0xFFF) 
+	{
+		do {
+			pdata[19] = ++n;
+			be32enc(&endiandata[19], n); 
+			quarkhash(hash64, &endiandata);
+			if (((hash64[7]&0xFFFFF000)==0) && 
+					fulltest(hash64, ptarget)) {
+				*hashes_done = n - first_nonce + 1;
+				return true;
+			}
+		} while (n < max_nonce && !work_restart[thr_id].restart);	
+
+	} 
+	else if (ptarget[7]<=0xFFFF) 
+	{
+		do {
+			pdata[19] = ++n;
+			be32enc(&endiandata[19], n); 
+			quarkhash(hash64, &endiandata);
+			if (((hash64[7]&0xFFFF0000)==0) && 
+					fulltest(hash64, ptarget)) {
+				*hashes_done = n - first_nonce + 1;
+				return true;
+			}
+		} while (n < max_nonce && !work_restart[thr_id].restart);	
+
+	} 
+	else 
+	{
+		do {
+			pdata[19] = ++n;
+			be32enc(&endiandata[19], n); 
+			quarkhash(hash64, &endiandata);
+			if (fulltest(hash64, ptarget)) {
+				*hashes_done = n - first_nonce + 1;
+				return true;
+			}
+		} while (n < max_nonce && !work_restart[thr_id].restart);	
+	}
 	
 	
-	
-	do {
-	
-		pdata[19] = ++n;
-		be32enc(&endiandata[19], n); 
-		quarkhash(hash64, &endiandata);
-        if (((hash64[7]&0xFFFFFF00)==0) && 
-				fulltest(hash64, ptarget)) {
-            *hashes_done = n - first_nonce + 1;
-			return true;
-		}
-	} while (n < max_nonce && !work_restart[thr_id].restart);
-	
 	*hashes_done = n - first_nonce + 1;
 	pdata[19] = n;
 	return 0;

[eule]

Thanks, a fresh git clone helped indeed!  

Does that mean people using an old version of the miner get lower payouts from the p2pool?
edit: guess not, the shares should determine payout.

[trinsic]

Did you recieve many small p2pool transactions?

Yeah a weeks worth of p2pool transactions. I have since used settxfee and solo mining to send large amounts now.

[BitJohn]

Just wanted to thank our Quark traders with their own Cryptsy.com avatar. We will be giving coins away and merchandise randomly to folks who sport a cryptsy avatar on any coin forum that we spot.

[shazbits]

Can the people who built it for Windows 64-bit, explain a bit how they've done it?
Have you used mingw? mingw-w64?
Did you have to update the default packages?
Did you install every needed package by hand (configure, make, make install)?
Any other details?

Thanks.

Edit: just found this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240894.msg2597100#msg2597100

[zvs]

I could use some testers:
http://qrkpool.tk:8868/static/ (just registered so use the one below if this one does not work)
http://yacpool.tk:8868/static/
1% fee  

I wonder if I should put Neisklar's node's IP to "BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS" in the networks.py? Great work Neisklar btw, I'll tip you tomorrow.  

edit to add: Interestingly the miner reports a much higher hashrate than the p2pool, not sure if that's a bug or if that happens on the other node too.

I tried to set this up but it kept getting errors about not locating quark_hasher or some such..

The p2pool website appeared, but it never loaded in any blocks?  it connected to the rpc port fine

Code:

2013-08-27 21:03:32.398008 Initializing work...
2013-08-27 21:03:32.437453 RECV headers 0102000000da0a32ae29942b51b42888058e063ef820aaee5254d7b805285a9c6300000000d0d09b0e366e403a122db8adc2fe91e7b1554d757a79c5d57f08f0e59af59b0a535a1d52b8cc001d20069b0500
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470203 > Error handling message: (see RECV line)
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470249 > Traceback (most recent call last):
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470276 >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/posixbase.py", line 586, in _doReadOrWrite
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470311 >     why = selectable.doRead()
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470354 >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/internet/tcp.py", line 199, in doRead
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470388 >     rval = self.protocol.dataReceived(data)
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470436 >   File "/home/zevus/p2pool-quarkcoin/p2pool/util/p2protocol.py", line 27, in dataReceived
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470483 >     self.dataReceived2(data)
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470527 >   File "/home/zevus/p2pool-quarkcoin/p2pool/util/datachunker.py", line 40, in _DataChunker
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470558 >     wants = receiver.send(buf.get(wants))
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470581 > --- <exception caught here> ---
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470609 >   File "/home/zevus/p2pool-quarkcoin/p2pool/util/p2protocol.py", line 57, in dataReceiver
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470632 >     self.packetReceived(command, type_.unpack(payload, self.ignore_trailing_payload))
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470652 >   File "/home/zevus/p2pool-quarkcoin/p2pool/util/p2protocol.py", line 71, in packetReceived
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470673 >     handler(**payload2)
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470695 >   File "/home/zevus/p2pool-quarkcoin/p2pool/bitcoin/p2p.py", line 130, in handle_headers
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470731 >     header_hash = self.net.BLOCKHASH_FUNC(bitcoin_data.block_header_type.pack(header))
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470751 >   File "/home/zevus/p2pool-quarkcoin/p2pool/bitcoin/networks.py", line 25, in <lambda>
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470771 >     BLOCKHASH_FUNC=lambda data: pack.IntType(256).unpack(__import__('quark_hash').getPoWHash(data)),
2013-08-27 21:03:32.470791 > exceptions.ImportError: No module named quark_hash

[necbtc]

我挖了三天一个都没挖到，I5 3210

[bitspill]

我挖了三天一个都没挖到，I5 3210

I did not dig dug three days one, I5 3210 --- Google translate

-- assuming his i5 had not mined a single block in 3 days.

[zvs]

我挖了三天一个都没挖到，I5 3210

I did not dig dug three days one, I5 3210 --- Google translate

-- assuming his i5 had not mined a single block in 3 days.

Correct!

I mined (excavated/dug) three days and never got one ("one never hit"), I5 3210.

http://nogleg.com:8372/static/

*boggle*

[Palmdetroit]

我挖了三天一个都没挖到，I5 3210

I did not dig dug three days one, I5 3210 --- Google translate

-- assuming his i5 had not mined a single block in 3 days.

damn good game

[CoinBusiness]

Is there something wrong with the pool at http://176.221.46.81:8372?
I added 3 servers with around 1,000 kh/s total, the miner was running properly, getting shares and everything, but I got no payment and nothing in the Block explorer after several hours, even after double checking that I put the proper address in the miner. 

[bitspill]

Is there something wrong with the pool at http://176.221.46.81:8372?
I added 3 servers with around 1,000 kh/s total, the miner was running properly, getting shares and everything, but I got no payment and nothing in the Block explorer after several hours, even after double checking that I put the proper address in the miner. 

I too had problems with that pool after successfully earning payouts for an hour they stopped coming.

It looks like there are 2 additional pools though now, but I have not used either yet I'm solo mining currently

eule - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260031.msg3021876#msg3021876
zvs  - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260031.msg3023423#msg3023423

[zvs]

Is there something wrong with the pool at http://176.221.46.81:8372?
I added 3 servers with around 1,000 kh/s total, the miner was running properly, getting shares and everything, but I got no payment and nothing in the Block explorer after several hours, even after double checking that I put the proper address in the miner. 

I too had problems with that pool after successfully earning payouts for an hour they stopped coming.

It looks like there are 2 additional pools though now, but I have not used either yet I'm solo mining currently

eule - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260031.msg3021876#msg3021876
zvs  - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260031.msg3023423#msg3023423

I can't get mine working properly...   it's getting some error about 'quark-hash' not being found or some such & not loading headers...   just going to take it down instead of leaving that shell up 

[bitspill]

Is there something wrong with the pool at http://176.221.46.81:8372?
I added 3 servers with around 1,000 kh/s total, the miner was running properly, getting shares and everything, but I got no payment and nothing in the Block explorer after several hours, even after double checking that I put the proper address in the miner. 

I too had problems with that pool after successfully earning payouts for an hour they stopped coming.

It looks like there are 2 additional pools though now, but I have not used either yet I'm solo mining currently

eule - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260031.msg3021876#msg3021876
zvs  - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260031.msg3023423#msg3023423

I can't get mine working properly...   it's getting some error about 'quark-hash' not being found or some such & not loading headers...   just going to take it down instead of leaving that shell up 

Bummer, I think we need to have multiple pools running to help with the whole decentralization thing this community seems to live by