[XPM] Working on a GPU miner for Primecoin, new thread :)

[22naru]

i have reaperprime v1 from mtrlt and  i get appcrash after couple of min . i have WIN7 x64  gpu drivers 12.8  and i  used some  ideeas from here to .
i tested on my miner ,with intel dual-core & 3x 7950 win7 x64 , and
cpu_mining_threads 1 or 2 - was more stable
sievepercentage 10
sievesize 1024000
vectors 2
with this config  my rig run 2 min  (and i get 0 fermat/ n gandalfs )  than crash.
 
mtrlt keep doing a good work , cheers.

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[spirale]

I followed the instructions and got it compiled all right (with one warning), but when i try to run I get this:

Code:

I'm now mining primecoin!
GeneratePrimeTable() : setting nSievePercentage = 1, nSieveSize = 100000
GeneratePrimeTable() : prime table [1, 100000] generated with 9592 primes
Share thread started
Available CPU mining algorithms: hp7
Using default: hp7
Creating 4 CPU threads.
1...Warning: can't set thread priority
2...3...4...done
GPU not used.
Error adding block template: JSON result is error
RET! Invalid address
Segmentation fault

Am I doing something wrong?
I'm using Linux with 4 GPUs.

[balanghai]

Anyone willing to read? Hint: last page might be helpful
<edit>
This message is dedicated to balanghai. Next time I should quote properly...
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Sorry I missed the qoutes. I only read on the tech specs. 

[refer_2_me]

I followed the instructions and got it compiled all right (with one warning), but when i try to run I get this:

Code:

I'm now mining primecoin!
GeneratePrimeTable() : setting nSievePercentage = 1, nSieveSize = 100000
GeneratePrimeTable() : prime table [1, 100000] generated with 9592 primes
Share thread started
Available CPU mining algorithms: hp7
Using default: hp7
Creating 4 CPU threads.
1...Warning: can't set thread priority
2...3...4...done
GPU not used.
Error adding block template: JSON result is error
RET! Invalid address
Segmentation fault

Am I doing something wrong?
I'm using Linux with 4 GPUs.

Top of this page.

You need to redownload, compile and install the libblkmaker package.

[spirale]

Top of this page.

You need to redownload, compile and install the libblkmaker package.

I did, it's not that.

[spirale]

I changed the config a bit and now I get:

Code:

Warning: unknown property "use_gpu" in configuration file.
I'm now mining primecoin!
GeneratePrimeTable() : setting nSievePercentage = 1, nSieveSize = 100000
Share thread started
GeneratePrimeTable() : prime table [1, 100000] generated with 9592 primes
Available CPU mining algorithms: hp7
Using default: hp7
Creating 4 CPU threads.
1...Warning: can't set thread priority
2...3...4...done
List of platforms:
    0    AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Using platform number 0

Using devices 0, 1, 2, 3
OpenCL device 0........
Compiling kernel... this could take up to 2 minutes.
"/tmp/OCLn5hmbH.cl", line 338: warning: nested comment is not allowed
      /*/
      ^

"/tmp/OCLn5hmbH.cl", line 672: error: too many arguments in function call
      uint16 a = Mul_512b_32b(FixedMultiplier,FermatNumbers[get_global_id(0)>>1],ORIGIN_LENGTH);
                                                                                 ^

1 error detected in the compilation of "/tmp/OCLn5hmbH.cl".

Frontend phase failed compilation.

2013-09-10 18:41:27 Error: Error building OpenCL program

primecoin.conf:

Code:

host 127.0.0.1
port ****
user ****
pass ****
 
protocol primecoin

worksize 256
threads_per_gpu 1
cpu_mining_threads 4
vectors 2
primecoin_address ****

use_gpu true

[usahero]

Has anyone actually mined some coins with the gpu miner? I read that paul's coins were a false positive and that he didn't mine them with gpu's but with vps...

[crendore]

Has anyone actually mined some coins with the gpu miner? I read that paul's coins were a false positive and that he didn't mine them with gpu's but with vps...

I have seen several accounts in this thread of people successfully mining coins with this miner.  And i'm pretty sure paulscreen said he used a different wallet so it was impossible to confuse with VPS.

[usahero]

Has anyone actually mined some coins with the gpu miner? I read that paul's coins were a false positive and that he didn't mine them with gpu's but with vps...

I have seen several accounts in this thread of people successfully mining coins with this miner.  And i'm pretty sure paulscreen said he used a different wallet so it was impossible to confuse with VPS.

I would like to hear his comment. He found blocks on that wallet with his gpu miners off.

[wyldfire]

Has anyone actually mined some coins with the gpu miner? I read that paul's coins were a false positive and that he didn't mine them with gpu's but with vps...

Well, I'm scratching my head on this one.  I had two instances of reaper running overnight, both connecting to a single primecoind instance.  Both of the reapers now show a nonzero count for the "10-chains per hour" stat.  Based on my understanding of the code, this stat doesn't get filled in until/unless there's a single entry.  Yet there's no record of a "immature" or "generate" (or even "orphan") entry in the primecoind's "listtransactions" output.

I'm left wondering if maybe there's something wrong with how reaper returns work when it finds a block at difficulty?  Or my primecoind is misconfigured somehow?

[refer_2_me]

Has anyone actually mined some coins with the gpu miner? I read that paul's coins were a false positive and that he didn't mine them with gpu's but with vps...

Well, I'm scratching my head on this one.  I had two instances of reaper running overnight, both connecting to a single primecoind instance.  Both of the reapers now show a nonzero count for the "10-chains per hour" stat.  Based on my understanding of the code, this stat doesn't get filled in until/unless there's a single entry.  Yet there's no record of a "immature" or "generate" (or even "orphan") entry in the primecoind's "listtransactions" output.

I'm left wondering if maybe there's something wrong with how reaper returns work when it finds a block at difficulty?  Or my primecoind is misconfigured somehow?

Did you run

Code:

 primecoind listtransactions "*" 

?

My guess is that it was orphaned.

[wyldfire]

Has anyone actually mined some coins with the gpu miner? I read that paul's coins were a false positive and that he didn't mine them with gpu's but with vps...

Well, I'm scratching my head on this one.  I had two instances of reaper running overnight, both connecting to a single primecoind instance.  Both of the reapers now show a nonzero count for the "10-chains per hour" stat.  Based on my understanding of the code, this stat doesn't get filled in until/unless there's a single entry.  Yet there's no record of a "immature" or "generate" (or even "orphan") entry in the primecoind's "listtransactions" output.

I'm left wondering if maybe there's something wrong with how reaper returns work when it finds a block at difficulty?  Or my primecoind is misconfigured somehow?

Ok, more breadcrumbs:

Code:

getblocks -1 to 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 limit 500
ThreadRPCServer method=submitblock
ERROR: CheckBlock() : size limits failed
ERROR: ProcessBlock() : CheckBlock FAILED
ThreadRPCServer method=submitblock
ERROR: CheckBlock() : size limits failed
ERROR: ProcessBlock() : CheckBlock FAILED
Added 1 addresses from 5.45.100.162: 380 tried, 9853 new
Added 1 addresses from 5.45.100.162: 380 tried, 9854 new
received block 5fbaef6f07fe6ef32320d11e84216fe2c506092abcdbc54d970079e98d8dbc27
Committing 1 changed transactions to coin database...
SetBestChain: new best=5fbaef6f07fe6ef32320d11e84216fe2c506092abcdbc54d970079e98d8dbc27  height=158801  difficulty=9.8662075 log2Work=25.636109 

Maybe I'll find some time to move over to testnet and capture the submission over the wire from reaper to see what might've been wrong.

[paulthetafy]

Has anyone actually mined some coins with the gpu miner? I read that paul's coins were a false positive and that he didn't mine them with gpu's but with vps...

I have seen several accounts in this thread of people successfully mining coins with this miner.  And i'm pretty sure paulscreen said he used a different wallet so it was impossible to confuse with VPS.

I would like to hear his comment. He found blocks on that wallet with his gpu miners off.

Unfortunately usahero is correct.  I generated a new address from my wallet specifically for the GPU miner and blocks were found with it.  However after I switched off the GPU's another couple of blocks showed up in my wallet from the same address.  The conclusion is that my VPS's (which share the wallet) had pulled the same address out of the keypool as the one I assigned to the GPU Miner.  So there is no way to know whether the GPU mined them or not. 

There may be people who can confirm they have successfully mined blocks with the GPU miner, but I don't know of any.  I think further testing may be in order before a public release (as if it wasn't public already!)

[balanghai]

Hope some v 1.0 will be released and the source code as well.

[Trillium]

Hope some v 1.0 will be released and the source code as well.

+1

[YipYip]

Its been 2 weeks since the GPU release fiasco & so far crickets

Well to be honest mrlt aka realsolid aka CoinHunter has taken the money and said a nice big FUCKU all to the community after $10k

Has he even released the source so others can finish his abortion in a bucket...?

[refer_2_me]

Its been 2 weeks since the GPU release fiasco & so far crickets

Well to be honest mrlt aka realsolid aka CoinHunter has taken the money and said a nice big FUCKU all to the community after $10k

Has he even released the source so others can finish his abortion in a bucket...?

The source was with the leak.  Has no one uploaded it to github yet?

[tbly13]

 

[ReCat]

Unfortunately, mr.Mtrlt has a tendency to look really shady and scammy for no reason at all.

[YipYip]

Unfortunately, mr.Mtrlt has a tendency to look really shady and scammy for no reason at all.

If the rumour mill is correct and the mrlt realsolid coinhunter senario is true ...

MicroCash 500BTC & nothing 
GPU miner ~100btc & nothing that works

These are the recent "DONATIONS" operations he has pulled in the last 3 months