[ANN] [QRK] Quark | Core 0.10 upgrade

[i3lome]

is this all you need to do to get minerd running on vps, I can get it mining

sudo apt-get install automake build-essential git
 sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
 git clone git://github.com/Neisklar/quarkcoin-cpuminer.git
 cd cpuminer
 ./autogen.sh
 ./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
 make




then type this to mine right

./minerd -a quark -t 8 -o http://qrk.mine-pool.net:8372 -u <YouQRKWallet> -p xxx

using My Ubuntu 13.04 Profile (Latest 64 bit (3.9.3-x86_64-linode33))

Please help

[Promethium]

Are the Quarkcoin developers from the Future?

[cryptohunter]

Using: https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer

E3-1230 (quad-core, HT)
90khash per thread, 540khash on six of eight threads.

i5-3570S (quad-core)
130khash per thread, 400khash on three of four threads.

i7-3770S (quad-core, HT)
80khash per thread, 520khash on six of eight threads.

Xeon X3440 (quad-core, HT)
66khash per thread, 400khash on six of eight threads.

i3-2130 (dual-core, HT)
100khash per thread, 300khash on three of four threads.

the i3 is quite impressive there really.

[stonefoz]

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

and i'm telling you AGAIN it crashes on my Intel CPU (both versions in the archive)
i downloaded it before and tried them all and i re-downloaded just now and tried them all..
arguing doesn't make code run lol

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 = fail / crash on start up - win 7 x64
and yeah i checked and these are 64bit builds not x86

and your welcome for the constructive feedback and time and effort i took to test this everyone

edit:
I'd love to know how that guy is compiling code from GitHub.. all its giving me is compiler errors with mingw on windows
i can get various previous version of the code to run just fine..
i often see "get the tarball" but how am i suppose to find that ?
all i can see on the github page is the button that says download zip or that other page with the .zip + targz
and that can't be the tarball because i see these devs constantly telling people asking for help compiling it code to not use it and use the tarball
when autogen.sh fails etc.. so obviously the tarball should have more files inside the archive in it so you don't have to run that command right ?
this quark miner stuff is severe pain in the ass for a noob to come along and get the newest version and compile.
these miners should have dedicated topic or do they already ?

bottom line: I'm figuring it all out on my own anyway, so whatever keep scrolling guys lol
started in on linux and c/c++ well over a decade ago and its sucks balls i can't use VS as an ide
so yes i am a noob but no i am not.. i may start a new thread soon with a tutorial on building this on windows for people..

Sorry, I'm not quite the wizard with autotools. Anyway, compile it on either linux, or someone has been successful with mingw or cygwin. Autotools doesn't do MSVS. SO HERE:

git clone https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer.git 
cd quarkcoin-cpuminer 
sh autogen.sh 
./configure CFLAGS="-msse2" 
make 

-msse2 is not optional, should be built into the build scripts. However, I've avoided getting good with autotools this long, might as well not start now. Really anyone have a simple examples for autotools? They seem to all turn into a huge pita quickly. Step two might be cmake or anything else.

really though,  the code at: 

http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/ 

is probably the best, first release where fast is first.
I've been monkeying around with stuff on github, should be faster later, just not anytime soon. Rewriting large bits and it's going to be broken some times.

[eule]

I can recommend this miner for Core2Duos on Windows: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=260031.msg3047868#msg3047868
95kH/s per core on a 6.5 year old CPU

[Spoetnik]

@stonefoz

right on man thanks for your advice

the git build yesterday had compile errors for me i mentioned already
if needed i could do it again log them if anyone wants to see them, myself i just ignored them it looked like a mess..
especially compared to Visual Studio's build output lol
i first tried to port the program to VC++ on VS 2010 and almost got it working before i gave up.
i have already made a GUI version of cudaminer (another Pooler CPU miner fork) on VS using MFC so i kinda think its doable to support GCC and MSVC.

your comment on SSE2 was intriguing and so is that other guys test build "minerd64_CHEAT.exe"
i have hex compared the first v2 build uploaded that came with different Instruction sets and then compiled my own and compared.
i some experience using IDA, OllyDBG etc patching programs over the years so i know some asm.. never used it much in c/c++ code though.
point being i took one of the builds last not (not the newest) and tried -msse2 and msee4.1 and did see they produced different code..
using -O3 also which turns out via google search enables the highest level of optimizations.
Anyway the SSE4.1 build has been yielding me a noticeable increase in speed running it over night.. max high of 202 for me now to 215 regularly
and all i did was turn off AVX, AVX2 and XOP in the cpuminer.h config and rebuild with sse4.1 (the max my Intel C2D supports)
and i didn't do anything yet lol
for now all i did was add all the files to a project in Visual Studio and use GCC to compile.. that way i get best of both for now

What i'm really wondering right now is what is with that guy that said we all need to patch our miners a few pages back ?
He was saying something about it fixing reporting to P2Pools ? something to do with pseudo-share settings ?

215.09 on my C2D E7500 using both cores -s 1 mofo's
I can get more I KNOW it lol

[Joerii]

Congratulations folks !

QRK is now tradeable on PhenixEx.

[Neisklar]

What i'm really wondering right now is what is with that guy that said we all need to patch our miners a few pages back ?
He was saying something about it fixing reporting to P2Pools ? something to do with pseudo-share settings ?

I don't know if this miner is actually "patched". The original code had a problem with very low diffs. The problem was that it did a fast pre check which only allowed diffs 0f 0.0039... or higher. Thus when a fresh p2pool was set up, the pool did give out lower diff. But the miner only reported back hashed above 0.0039. Thus the p2pools speed calculations was wrong, as well it may happend that valid pool shares was thrown away (ONLY poolshares, NEVER valid block hashes)

This commit beside some other thing has the fix in it:
https://github.com/Neisklar/quarkcoin-cpuminer/commit/b1af442712ee82fe9764df3812d134a99e11e3f2

[ivanlabrie]

http://forum.quarkcoin.org/Thread-ANN-poolers-cpuminer-with-quarkcoin-support

I was using that one. Do I need to patch it?

[Vlad2Vlad]

I have great news for everyone here:

I like this coin and have started accumulating it.  It's third on my list so far.

This should be an interesting experiment as to what will happen with other coins such as ixCoin once they reach their terminal output.

Personally I expect a massive (relative) deflationary cycle which should lead to a large uptick in value compared to its peers.  We'll soon find out.

Good luck!

[superresistant]

Personally I expect a massive (relative) deflationary cycle which should lead to a large uptick in value compared to its peers.

What does it mean ?

[darkproton]

Think he speaks of the halving every three weeks, from~2000 to ~1000 to ~500 to ~ 200 and so on til I believe 1. Soooo log base 2 of 2048 is 11....meaning in 33 weeks we shall see a block reward of 1. 9 weeks we will be at 50 block rewards

[captainfuture]

is there a miner for mac ?

[Orrechorre]

which is the best miner for a i5 3570k? cant find any

[zvs]

Using: https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer

E3-1230 (quad-core, HT)
90khash per thread, 540khash on six of eight threads.

i5-3570S (quad-core)
130khash per thread, 400khash on three of four threads.

i7-3770S (quad-core, HT)
80khash per thread, 520khash on six of eight threads.

Xeon X3440 (quad-core, HT)
66khash per thread, 400khash on six of eight threads.

i3-2130 (dual-core, HT)
100khash per thread, 300khash on three of four threads.

you should be able to get faster on the i7-3770s

my i7-960 gets 600khash on 8 threads (on turbomode), i7-4770k gets like 1mhash

if it gets to 100oC it'll start to throttle itself

[K1773R]

Using: https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer

E3-1230 (quad-core, HT)
90khash per thread, 540khash on six of eight threads.

i5-3570S (quad-core)
130khash per thread, 400khash on three of four threads.

i7-3770S (quad-core, HT)
80khash per thread, 520khash on six of eight threads.

Xeon X3440 (quad-core, HT)
66khash per thread, 400khash on six of eight threads.

i3-2130 (dual-core, HT)
100khash per thread, 300khash on three of four threads.

you should be able to get faster on the i7-3770s

my i7-960 gets 600khash on 8 threads (on turbomode), i7-4770k gets like 1mhash

if it gets to 100oC it'll start to throttle itself

100C? thats a horrible cooling system...

[sva_h4cky0]

Sorry, I'm not quite the wizard with autotools. Anyway, compile it on either linux, or someone has been successful with mingw or cygwin. Autotools doesn't do MSVS. SO HERE:

git clone https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer.git 
cd quarkcoin-cpuminer 
sh autogen.sh 
./configure CFLAGS="-msse2" 
make 

-msse2 is not optional, should be built into the build scripts. However, I've avoided getting good with autotools this long, might as well not start now. Really anyone have a simple examples for autotools? They seem to all turn into a huge pita quickly. Step two might be cmake or anything else.

really though,  the code at: 

http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/ 

is probably the best, first release where fast is first.
I've been monkeying around with stuff on github, should be faster later, just not anytime soon. Rewriting large bits and it's going to be broken some times.

when i run ./configure CFLAGS="-msse2"
i get

./configure: line 5577: syntax error near unexpected token `,'
./configure: line 5577: `LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG(, 7.15.2, ,'

but i have curl 7.32.0 installed

any idea??

[K1773R]

Sorry, I'm not quite the wizard with autotools. Anyway, compile it on either linux, or someone has been successful with mingw or cygwin. Autotools doesn't do MSVS. SO HERE:

git clone https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer.git  
cd quarkcoin-cpuminer  
sh autogen.sh  
./configure CFLAGS="-msse2"  
make  

-msse2 is not optional, should be built into the build scripts. However, I've avoided getting good with autotools this long, might as well not start now. Really anyone have a simple examples for autotools? They seem to all turn into a huge pita quickly. Step two might be cmake or anything else.

really though,  the code at:  

http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/  

is probably the best, first release where fast is first.
I've been monkeying around with stuff on github, should be faster later, just not anytime soon. Rewriting large bits and it's going to be broken some times.

when i run ./configure CFLAGS="-msse2"
i get

./configure: line 5577: syntax error near unexpected token `,'
./configure: line 5577: `LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG(, 7.15.2, ,'

but i have curl 7.32.0 installed

any idea??

are you on a debian based system (ubuntu, mint, etc), if so:

Code:

sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev

otherwise look for a libcurl dev(eloper) package.

for compiling you need the headers of given libs. ie, if you have a library libfoo, you need to install libfoo-dev if you want to use it in your code.

[Guido]

@quarkcoin @Guido

outstanding!
simply outstanding

whats your qrk wallet addy?

think will add to site whatever its amazing
cheers

[zvs]

Using: https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer

E3-1230 (quad-core, HT)
90khash per thread, 540khash on six of eight threads.

i5-3570S (quad-core)
130khash per thread, 400khash on three of four threads.

i7-3770S (quad-core, HT)
80khash per thread, 520khash on six of eight threads.

Xeon X3440 (quad-core, HT)
66khash per thread, 400khash on six of eight threads.

i3-2130 (dual-core, HT)
100khash per thread, 300khash on three of four threads.

you should be able to get faster on the i7-3770s

my i7-960 gets 600khash on 8 threads (on turbomode), i7-4770k gets like 1mhash

if it gets to 100oC it'll start to throttle itself

100C? thats a horrible cooling system...

right, but i know that's when i7's start to throttle, pretty sure it's the same for i5's and i3's