[ANN][BLC] Blakecoin Blake-256 for GPU/FPGA With Merged Mined Pools Stable Net

[SpeedDemon13]

Mining beta is going good, people are reporting >5GH/s with a 7990, ~2.1-2.6GH/s with a 7970, similar numbers for 7950s. PM me if you want to help test the beta.

I can't get the miner to work. I'm getting a 0xc000007b error, unable to start. I set up the blakecoin.conf and reaper.conf with the proper user, pass and rpc port.

[qwep]

Mining beta is going good, people are reporting >5GH/s with a 7990, ~2.1-2.6GH/s with a 7970, similar numbers for 7950s. PM me if you want to help test the beta.

7950 2.063GH/s 2 7950 4,1 GH/s

[smolen]

I can't get the miner to work. I'm getting a 0xc000007b error, unable to start. I set up the blakecoin.conf and reaper.conf with the proper user, pass and rpc port.

Try to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)

[SpeedDemon13]

I can't get the miner to work. I'm getting a 0xc000007b error, unable to start. I set up the blakecoin.conf and reaper.conf with the proper user, pass and rpc port.

Try to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)

I have Visual C++ 2012 Redist (x64) install already. Does the miner only work with the 32-bit version?

[smolen]

I can't get the miner to work. I'm getting a 0xc000007b error, unable to start. I set up the blakecoin.conf and reaper.conf with the proper user, pass and rpc port.

Try to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)

I have Visual C++ 2012 Redist (x64) install already. Does the miner only work with the 32-bit version?

It's compiled as 32 bit executable, I don't have recent Visual C at hands ATM to do x64 build. Try to download Dependency Walker and open reaper.exe in it, if some dll is missing, depwalker will tell about it.

[feeleep]

I can't get the miner to work. I'm getting a 0xc000007b error, unable to start. I set up the blakecoin.conf and reaper.conf with the proper user, pass and rpc port.

Try to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)

I have Visual C++ 2012 Redist (x64) install already. Does the miner only work with the 32-bit version?

It's compiled as 32 bit executable, I don't have recent Visual C at hands ATM to do x64 build. Try to download Dependency Walker and open reaper.exe in it, if some dll is missing, depwalker will tell about it.

Is there a Linux version or source code I can try?

[ropyu1978]

Can anyone advise how to mine with cgminer please?

Is that a SHA256 or scrypt?

How should the bat file look like for this coin please?

it is not SHA-256 or Scrypt it is Blake-256 and cgminer is not ported to it yet

PM Vorksholk if you want to help test the OpenCL miner software Reaper_Blakecoin_Beta

the reaper can find blocks?

[smolen]

Is there a Linux version or source code I can try?

Actually this fork was done on Linux, I did windows build at the last moment. But the copyright is transferred to Vorksholk, he is the kernel owner.

[SpeedDemon13]

I can't get the miner to work. I'm getting a 0xc000007b error, unable to start. I set up the blakecoin.conf and reaper.conf with the proper user, pass and rpc port.

Try to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)

I have Visual C++ 2012 Redist (x64) install already. Does the miner only work with the 32-bit version?

It's compiled as 32 bit executable, I don't have recent Visual C at hands ATM to do x64 build. Try to download Dependency Walker and open reaper.exe in it, if some dll is missing, depwalker will tell about it.

I ran Dependency Walker and got the follow errors:

[Aalesund]

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[BlueDragon747]

I can't get the miner to work. I'm getting a 0xc000007b error, unable to start. I set up the blakecoin.conf and reaper.conf with the proper user, pass and rpc port.

Try to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)

I have Visual C++ 2012 Redist (x64) install already. Does the miner only work with the 32-bit version?

It's compiled as 32 bit executable, I don't have recent Visual C at hands ATM to do x64 build. Try to download Dependency Walker and open reaper.exe in it, if some dll is missing, depwalker will tell about it.

I ran Dependency Walker and got the follow errors:

I am running Windows 7 x64 and have the following Microsoft libraries installed both x86 and x64


maybe this will help as it runs fine here  

think the key is having .Net installed and both x86 and x64 visual C++ even if you are using an x64 OS

[atavacron]

I can't get the miner to work. I'm getting a 0xc000007b error, unable to start. I set up the blakecoin.conf and reaper.conf with the proper user, pass and rpc port.

Try to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)

I have Visual C++ 2012 Redist (x64) install already. Does the miner only work with the 32-bit version?

It's compiled as 32 bit executable, I don't have recent Visual C at hands ATM to do x64 build. Try to download Dependency Walker and open reaper.exe in it, if some dll is missing, depwalker will tell about it.

Is there a Linux version or source code I can try?

I'm running on Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 on all my rigs without a problem.  The source code in the beta compiles fine using CMake.

Below are my stats thus far (w/o overclocking):

x1 Diamond 7990 - 5.1GH/s @ 500W/h - 32 blocks
x2 MSI Twin 7950 - 4.1GH/s @ 600W/h - 15 blocks
x1 MSI Twin 7950 - 1.6GH/s @ 285W/h - 9 blocks
x1 Gigabyte 7950 - 1.7 GH/s @ 325W/h - 7 blocks

I'm using Kill-a-Watt meters on each rig to check power.  Also, all of the cards are running fairly cool (low 70Cs) compared to other algos.

[Su100]

Can anyone advise how to mine with cgminer please?

Is that a SHA256 or scrypt?

How should the bat file look like for this coin please?

it is not SHA-256 or Scrypt it is Blake-256 and cgminer is not ported to it yet

PM Vorksholk if you want to help test the OpenCL miner software Reaper_Blakecoin_Beta

Thank you

[Vorksholk]

Beta seems to be going well. Full release coming sometime this evening my time (it's a few hours before noon). Again, anyone who wants in on the beta can just PM me, haven't turned down anyone.

Edit: On another note, difficulty is shooting up. 874 now, but it hit around the 1,200 mark a bit ago.

[trid]

Block target time is 3 minutes and retargets every hour

last hour was 8 blocks in network
1 block per 8 minute, not 3

[BlueDragon747]

Block target time is 3 minutes and retargets every hour

last hour was 8 blocks in network
1 block per 8 minute, not 3

yes that why the difficulty goes up more block produced in the time span or difficulty goes down if not enough blocks produced in time span

and the wallet will re calculate the difficulty each hour(20 blocks) to get the magic 1 block in 3 minutes

[feeleep]

Just compiled reaper on ubuntu 64bit and for 5850+5870 both overclocked to 900 MHz I've got 2.3 GH/s

feeleep

[kramble]

Block target time is 3 minutes and retargets every hour

last hour was 8 blocks in network
1 block per 8 minute, not 3

yes that why the difficulty goes up more block produced in the time span or difficulty goes down if not enough blocks produced in time span

It retargets (difficulty changes) every 20 blocks exactly, so next retarget is at block 8100, then 8120, 8140 etc. Nice and easy to follow.

The difficulty is bouncing up and down quite a lot at the moment, though I expect it will take off once the reaper GPU miner goes public

[BlueDragon747]

Block target time is 3 minutes and retargets every hour

last hour was 8 blocks in network
1 block per 8 minute, not 3

yes that why the difficulty goes up more block produced in the time span or difficulty goes down if not enough blocks produced in time span

It retargets (difficulty changes) every 20 blocks exactly, so next retarget is at block 8100, then 8120, 8140 etc. Nice and easy to follow.

The difficulty is bouncing up and down quite a lot at the moment, though I expect it will take off once the reaper GPU miner goes public

yeah it is unlikely that the real network could produce a constant hash rate that would produce the magic 1 block in 3 minutes so the wallet will always be re guessing the difficulty to try to create a close to 1 block in 3 minutes as possible, the bouncing is most likely due to being a small network atm

[smolen]

I can't get the miner to work. I'm getting a 0xc000007b error, unable to start. I set up the blakecoin.conf and reaper.conf with the proper user, pass and rpc port.

Reproduced issue in VM, most probably you have some OpenCL misconfiguration. Reaper loads opencl.dll and gets 64 bit one from windows instead of 32 bit. Not sure what is the right way to fix it, but try to locate 32 bit OpenCL.dll (it should be somewhere in bin\x86\OpenCL.dll in AMDAPPSDK directory) and copy it in reaper directory.