[ANN] [QRK] Quark | Core 0.10 upgrade

[Hilux74]

I hope some services get setup using Quark coin soon.  I really like how fast and smooth the transactions are with this coin compared to some others and want it to be succesful. 

[i3lome]

Is there anyone else having issues with the Quark Client, Im mining like a champ but I cant send my quark.

Status: 0/unconfirmed, broadcast through 14 nodes
Date: 8/30/2013 17:27
To: cryptsy QiMK5t9RHEjVA36ncTrChmyvsYR2LXgjFQ
Debit: -1061.00 QRK
Transaction fee: -0.0047 QRK
Net amount: -1061.0047 QRK
Transaction ID: 5dc218f23e9445f4bdf92499bcc216b73d465abb231a48e7e9c1880ed2c9eb7b


Sent that about 45 min ago and has yet to confirm. I just updated to the CLient from Quarkcoin.org

[victzhang]

Is there anyone else having issues with the Quark Client, Im mining like a champ but I cant send my quark.

Status: 0/unconfirmed, broadcast through 14 nodes
Date: 8/30/2013 17:27
To: cryptsy QiMK5t9RHEjVA36ncTrChmyvsYR2LXgjFQ
Debit: -1061.00 QRK
Transaction fee: -0.0047 QRK
Net amount: -1061.0047 QRK
Transaction ID: 5dc218f23e9445f4bdf92499bcc216b73d465abb231a48e7e9c1880ed2c9eb7b


Sent that about 45 min ago and has yet to confirm. I just updated to the CLient from Quarkcoin.org

There are some relevant posts regarding this issue on QuarkCoin forum,

http://forum.quarkcoin.org/Thread-Unconfirmed-transactions-total-400k-QRK
http://forum.quarkcoin.org/Thread-Unconfirmed-transactions

[ig0tik3d]

latest optimized version cpu miner for quark with sse4 support (win64).
(compiled from source https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer (without CHEAT option))
http://rghost.ru/48483424

[altsay]

What's the current pool in which payments occur? As I and some other people in this forum had some problems about the payouts.

[freeworm]

Quark is live in Bter.com market at

https://bter.com/trade/qrk_btc

[eule]

What's the current pool in which payments occur? As I and some other people in this forum had some problems about the payouts.

On p2pools it will take a bit of time until payments begin, and they sometimes will stop and resume one or two hours later (at least with my measly 250kH). I think that's the intended behaviour, maybe Neisklar can inform us about it. If you got no payouts over a larger amount of time on a p2pool, tell us plz.

Also note that there seems to be a bug in the payout graph, e.g. i am on the payout list but my payout graph shows nothing.

[altsay]

What's the current pool in which payments occur? As I and some other people in this forum had some problems about the payouts.

On p2pools it will take a bit of time until payments begin, and they sometimes will stop and resume one or two hours later (at least with my measly 250kH). I think that's the intended behaviour, maybe Neisklar can inform us about it. If you got no payouts over a larger amount of time on a p2pool, tell us plz.

Also note that there seems to be a bug in the payout graph, e.g. i am on the payout list but my payout graph shows nothing.

Yeah, i asked the question for the same reason: payout problems. Also i couldnt figure out how to solo mining with minerd as it seems to be performing better.

[3dcgminer]

latest optimized version cpu miner for quark with sse4 support (win64).
(compiled from source https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer (without CHEAT option))
http://rghost.ru/48483424

Thanks, any chance of an AVX version (if there is any speed boost)?

[ciklop1974]

latest optimized version cpu miner for quark with sse4 support (win64).
(compiled from source https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer (without CHEAT option))
http://rghost.ru/48483424

This miner is a great for Intel processor. I have ~ 150KHs\core( was 115KHs\core) on my i5 3330.
And for AMD processor did not notice much of a difference.

[eule]

Yeah, i asked the question for the same reason: payout problems. Also i couldnt figure out how to solo mining with minerd as it seems to be performing better.

Please say which pool you tried, for how long and maybe also include the address you mined with.
To solo mine, add this to your quarkcoin.conf:

Code:

rpcport=12345 (or whatever pleases you)
rpcuser=altsay
rpcpassword=strongpassword
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1

Then start minerd like this: minerd.exe -a quark -o http://127.0.0.1:12345 -u altsay -p strongpassword

Rocket science.

[stonefoz]

latest optimized version cpu miner for quark with sse4 support (win64).
(compiled from source https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer (without CHEAT option))
http://rghost.ru/48483424

This miner is a great for Intel processor. I have ~ 150KHs\core( was 115KHs\core) on my i5 3330.
And for AMD processor did not notice much of a difference.

Can someone help me out with some test cases? I have three different generations of AMD chips, no Intel. While there is code that successfully uses sse4, I personally do not see a improvement with what I have. Intel may be a different story?  The largest problem with increasing the speed, with what I have to test, is size. There is much code and initialization data. At any rate, I for the most part am modifying code originally designed to work fast on considerably larger data. The SSE4 code does a expensive startup and finish, just to do one round. The original post may easily be faster until that is worked on. It's still really close, but is faster.

Anyone that feel like being a guanine pig, run the "makeprof.sh" script and send me the "a.txt" that it produces. It'll  just time the hash function and  list the cpu used. It could would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, and the CHEAT options is disabled by default, it's a great boost for some old processors that I should just retire. Not so good most of the time.

[stonefoz]

latest optimized version cpu miner for quark with sse4 support (win64).
(compiled from source https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer (without CHEAT option))
http://rghost.ru/48483424

Thanks, any chance of an AVX version (if there is any speed boost)?

AVX? likely not any time soon. The code for both SSE4 and AVX requires a expensive startup and finish, just for one round. It's currently slower. The default is an assembly routine wrote by the original creators for the groestl hash.

The largest problem now is actually size. We're swapping between 6 different things all at once, all the time.  Small changes in loop sizes make 30% differences in speed.

Out of the six; skein bmw and jh are already so much faster that it's a wast of time to improve them. Smaller however it important. It's slow to keep track of more stuff. Those three combined only use around 15% of the cpu, combined.


Next step personally is to shrink everything some more. New features should get worked in after that.

[Kryon]

stratum pool

http://qrk.coinmine.pl/

minerd -a quark -o stratum+tcp://qrk.coinmine.pl:6010 -u worker_name.1 -p password

Donation: QPks8Su6McpHK5BQv1yHjvmBkB6SWZ5x2d

[Lauda]

Price has been a bit more stable recently.

[trinsic]

700 diff!

[zvs]

What's the current pool in which payments occur? As I and some other people in this forum had some problems about the payouts.

On p2pools it will take a bit of time until payments begin, and they sometimes will stop and resume one or two hours later (at least with my measly 250kH). I think that's the intended behaviour, maybe Neisklar can inform us about it. If you got no payouts over a larger amount of time on a p2pool, tell us plz.

Also note that there seems to be a bug in the payout graph, e.g. i am on the payout list but my payout graph shows nothing.

It shouldn't take very long at all for payments to begin.... well, maybe at 250kh on the 100mh pool

I just looked at the source and the default settings are for it to gravitate towards 4 shares per minute... so, if you're on a pool that's at 100mh/s and are at 250kh, you would average 1 share every 100 minutes (I think the math is right on that).

there is this:

http://176.221.46.81:8372/static/  that is 131mhash,  http://qrkpool.tk:8868/static/ that is 50mhash, and http://nogleg.com:8372/static/ that is 25mhash..  the 1st has a fee of 3%, the 2nd is 1%, and the 3rd is 0%     (use the /fee option, i.e. 176.221.46.81:8372/fee)

i'm sure there are a bunch of others now too.

at 250kh you would be better off using a pool, not solo mining.  use a smaller pool if you think the payout variation is too great

[SpaceCadet]

Has anyone compiled an OSX version of the quark minerd stand-alone miner?  I don't have the environment to compile the source myself   Thx!

[ciklop1974]

Price is down. 

[zvs]

Price is down. 

i havent even looked tbh... what exchanges actually deal with quarkcoins?

ive sold off all my gfx cards but never bothered with the motherboards + cpus, etc..  doesnt use near as much electricity, either... so i figured what the hell