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

[coinme.info]

In both of your configs you have 'eu3.blakecoin.com' added twice. The full error message should include pool number, if its pool 0 or pool 3 maybe thats the problem.

Code:

"debug": true,
"verbose":true

You can use those options to get more info.

ARGHH!

I deleted the extra pool & added those options and ...

It won't load the .conf, says something about JSON fatal error

(Up until today I've always used simple .bat files to launch miners, might go back to that at this rate)

You'll get that error if there is a missing  ,   after the "verbose" : true  if that is not the last entry on the conf.

Notice how all the conf lines have the  ,   at the end, except for the last one.

[gaalx]

Would anyone be willing to help me through the steps of installing cgminer for Blake-256 on Ubuntu? I would be using 290s. If anyone could help me with this I would really appreciate it, I would even throw some BTC your way if I'm able to actually get it running.

P.S I already have the AMD drivers installed

Save and execute this script to install cgminer for blakecoin.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# 1. install dependencies
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake pkg-config libncurses5-dev libtool m4 libcurl4-openssl-dev screen

# 2. get the source code
git clone https://github.com/kR105/cgminer.git cgminer_blake
cd cgminer_blake

# 3. copy the adl files
adl1=$(locate adl_defines.h | head -1)
adl2=$(locate adl_sdk.h | head -1)
adl3=$(locate adl_structures.h | head -1)
cp $adl1 ADL_SDK/
cp $adl2 ADL_SDK/
cp $adl3 ADL_SDK/

# 4. configure and compile
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-opencl
make -j$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo)

Use this script to start cgminer:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

export DISPLAY=:0       
export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100
export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1
                
CGMINER_PATH=/YOUR/CGMINER/PATH
CGMINER_CONFIG_PATH=/YOUR/CGMINER/CONFIG/PATH

# remove old bin files  
rm *.bin                
                        
# run cgminer for blakecoin
su YOURUSERNAME -c "screen -dmS minerblake $CGMINER_PATH/cgminer --config $CGMINER_CONFIG_PATH/blakecoin.conf"

Save this in ~/.cgminer/blakecoin.conf

Code:

{
        "pools": [
                {
                        "url": "stratum+tcp://eu3.blakecoin.com:3334",
                        "user": "YOURUSERNAME.WORKERNAME",
                        "pass": "YOUR PASSWORD"
                },
                {
                        "url": "stratum+tcp://ny2.blakecoin.com:3334",
                        "user": "YOURUSERNAME.WORKERNAME",
                        "pass": "YOUR PASSWORD"
                },
                {
                        "url": "stratum+tcp://blake.suprnova.cc:9999",
                        "user": "YOURUSERNAME.WORKERNAME",
                        "pass": "YOUR PASSWORD"
                }
        ],
        "blake256": true,
        "gpu-reorder": true,
        "device": "0,1,2",

        "intensity": "14",
        "gpu-threads": "1",

        "gpu-engine": "1150",
        "gpu-memclock": "1000",
        "gpu-powertune": "20",
        
        "gpu-fan": "0-100",
        "auto-fan" : true, 
        "temp-cutoff": "95,95,95",
        "temp-overheat": "0,0,0",
        "temp-target": "75,75,75",
        "temp-hysteresis": "3",

        "expiry": "60",
        "queue": "50",
        "scan-time": "60",
        "shares": "0",
        "log": "5",

        "no-pool-disable": true,
        "no-submit-stale": true,
        "kernel-path": "/usr/local/bin",
        "kernel": "blake256",
}

You need to adjust CGMINER_PATH, CGMINER_CONFIG, YOURUSERNAME, YOURUSERNAME.WORKERNAME, YOUR PASSWORD and probably tweak some values in the cgminer config.

To show cgminer console you need to type:

Code:

screen -x minerblake

To exit it and leave cgminer running use CTRL+A and then press D

on the 290 it was succeeded to achieve 3550 Gh. With what maximum frequencies of the processor it is possible to work stablly? judging it is 1150?

What profit on the average if to take in standard classification of BTC/1MH or is production on the future?

[coinme.info]

In both of your configs you have 'eu3.blakecoin.com' added twice. The full error message should include pool number, if its pool 0 or pool 3 maybe thats the problem.

Code:

"debug": true,
"verbose":true

You can use those options to get more info.

ARGHH!

I deleted the extra pool & added those options and ...

It won't load the .conf, says something about JSON fatal error

(Up until today I've always used simple .bat files to launch miners, might go back to that at this rate)

You'll get that error if there is a missing  ,   after the "verbose" : true  if that is not the last entry on the conf.

Notice how all the conf lines have the  ,   at the end, except for the last one.

Just tried these lines on my conf file and it will not start with these in there.

Code:

"debug" : true,
"verbose" : true

Maybe those options are not supported in the version of CGMiner 3.1.1

Normally the best way to start with a new miner is to run it without any conf or bat at all and enter the pool info when prompted.

It should then start and you then hit Settings and Write to get a basic cgminer.conf

Then you can edit the cgminer.conf file adding the settings you want and restarting by clicking the cgminer.exe which will then load the cgminer.conf file.

That way you have a base .conf file to work with tweaking as you go.

[LionOfNarnia]

In both of your configs you have 'eu3.blakecoin.com' added twice. The full error message should include pool number, if its pool 0 or pool 3 maybe thats the problem.

Code:

"debug": true,
"verbose":true

You can use those options to get more info.

ARGHH!

I deleted the extra pool & added those options and ...

It won't load the .conf, says something about JSON fatal error

(Up until today I've always used simple .bat files to launch miners, might go back to that at this rate)

You'll get that error if there is a missing  ,   after the "verbose" : true  if that is not the last entry on the conf.

Notice how all the conf lines have the  ,   at the end, except for the last one.

No, I did spot that, and added the comma. I'm not a coder but I'm not a complete moron either. I'll stick with it, learn by my errors and grow both as a miner & as a human being.

[worth]

not sure why you are getting connection issues

I would ping and tracert your connection to the server in command prompt see if you have any high ping latency issues

Edit:

is there a specific server you are having issues with btw?

I have all three in my config file. When I open cgminer it says it's launching then hangs for a minute or more before finally listing the names of all three servers, the worker name & password and lets me press any key or wait for it to retry.

If I leave leave the room and just periodically check in my browser with all three pool locations open in tabs, I'll see it connect to one of the three randomly for a minute or three and drop the connection. Sometimes it will connect and drop from the same one over and over so the shares line on the dashboard looks like a sine wave. 

It's really odd. Never seen anything like it before and am having no issues with it connecting to any other pools with that computer or any of the ASICs. I just assumed it was the DDoS at first, but I guess not.

Here are the ping results -

--- eu3.blakecoin.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 227.933/229.692/233.099/1.705 ms

--- ny2.blakecoin.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 139.336/141.582/144.696/1.521 ms

--- la1.blakecoin.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 62.899/64.924/70.321/2.235 ms

I can post traceroute results too if you need them.  There's no difference between my iMac or the Xubuntu miner PC, so it's not isolated to that one machine (which also has no issues with other pools).  Weird.  Ideas?

[BlueDragon747]

not sure why you are getting connection issues

I would ping and tracert your connection to the server in command prompt see if you have any high ping latency issues

Edit:

is there a specific server you are having issues with btw?

I have all three in my config file. When I open cgminer it says it's launching then hangs for a minute or more before finally listing the names of all three servers, the worker name & password and lets me press any key or wait for it to retry.

If I leave leave the room and just periodically check in my browser with all three pool locations open in tabs, I'll see it connect to one of the three randomly for a minute or three and drop the connection. Sometimes it will connect and drop from the same one over and over so the shares line on the dashboard looks like a sine wave. 

It's really odd. Never seen anything like it before and am having no issues with it connecting to any other pools with that computer or any of the ASICs. I just assumed it was the DDoS at first, but I guess not.

Here are the ping results -

--- eu3.blakecoin.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 227.933/229.692/233.099/1.705 ms

--- ny2.blakecoin.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 139.336/141.582/144.696/1.521 ms

--- la1.blakecoin.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 62.899/64.924/70.321/2.235 ms

I can post traceroute results too if you need them.  There's no difference between my iMac or the Xubuntu miner PC, so it's not isolated to that one machine (which also has no issues with other pools).  Weird.  Ideas?

the dashboard is not real time and not very accurate for sub 5-10GH/s its based on your submissions over past period 1-3mins

as long as you can see shares have submitted for that round it should be good, look at U:x.x/m in cgminer for shares to server, 1.3GH/s is ~ U:0.5/m and 3.16GH/s is ~ U:1.4/m as a rough guide

pings look good I agree its kind of weird 

you could try the 3.7 version maybe that will help maybe not?
https://github.com/kR105/cgminer

[LionOfNarnia]

In both of your configs you have 'eu3.blakecoin.com' added twice. The full error message should include pool number, if its pool 0 or pool 3 maybe thats the problem.

Code:

"debug": true,
"verbose":true

You can use those options to get more info.

ARGHH!

I deleted the extra pool & added those options and ...

It won't load the .conf, says something about JSON fatal error

(Up until today I've always used simple .bat files to launch miners, might go back to that at this rate)

You'll get that error if there is a missing  ,   after the "verbose" : true  if that is not the last entry on the conf.

Notice how all the conf lines have the  ,   at the end, except for the last one.

Just tried these lines on my conf file and it will not start with these in there.

Code:

"debug" : true,
"verbose" : true

Maybe those options are not supported in the version of CGMiner 3.1.1

Normally the best way to start with a new miner is to run it without any conf or bat at all and enter the pool info when prompted.

It should then start and you then hit Settings and Write to get a basic cgminer.conf

Then you can edit the cgminer.conf file adding the settings you want and restarting by clicking the cgminer.exe which will then load the cgminer.conf file.

That way you have a base .conf file to work with tweaking as you go.

Might give that a whirl!

But I'm using cgminer-3.7.2-blake

EDIT - miner kept crashing doing that. re-tweaked the .conf to this & used afterburner to set fans to 100%, JUST holding under 93 degrees (gpu1) & getting 3.83 Gh/s WU:1643/s

Code:

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "stratum+tcp://eu3.blakecoin.com:3334",
      "user" : "DiracConvertUK.beast",
      "pass" : "x"
   }
]
,
"intensity" : "9",
"vectors" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "blake256",
"gpu-engine" : "0-1100",
"gpu-fan" : "30-100",
"gpu-memclock" : "800",
"gpu-memdiff" : "0",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-vddc" : "0.000",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"api-port" : "4028",
"auto-gpu" : true,
"expiry" : "120",
"failover-only" : true,
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"gpu-platform" : "0",
"gpu-threads" : "2",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"no-restart" : true,
"no-submit-stale" : true,
"queue" : "3",
"scan-time" : "30",
"blake256" : true,
"temp-hysteresis" : "4",
"shares" : "0",
"kernel-path" : "/"
}

[BlueDragon747]

3.1.1 is the most stable and tested on the most machines and should be tried first, 3.7.2 is not as stable in the early testing and there is no real gain to using it unless you get some weird issues when running 3.1.1

hope that makes sense 

[yzhi]

14250 khash/s on a Intel Core i7 3930K. year it is right.

[BlueDragon747]

14250 khash/s on a Intel Core i7 3930K. year it is right.

sounds ok but with current difficulty and the merge mine pools I dont recommend CPU mining unless its a new released Blake-256 coin then only for solo mining against the wallet, stratum is not patched for the cpu miner

most of the hashing is done on GPU or FPGA atm

But one thing to remember is that the wallet does use the algo on cpu so does the pool software so speed gain is what helps with merge mining and why we will be able to merge more coins for the same server hardware  

[LionOfNarnia]

3.1.1 is the most stable and tested on the most machines and should be tried first, 3.7.2 is not as stable in the early testing and there is no real gain to using it unless you get some weird issues when running 3.1.1

hope that makes sense  

Cheers BD I'll try that, the way things are going with gpu1 I won't be able to mine much, still thermal runaway even with I=4 (88 degrees but only 55Mh/s)

EDIT - BIG improvement

At I=9 gpu1 isn't breaking 91 degrees

...maybe spoke too soon, pool not showing any active worker or sharerate even though miner says all OK

[worth]

not sure why you are getting connection issues

I would ping and tracert your connection to the server in command prompt see if you have any high ping latency issues

Edit:

is there a specific server you are having issues with btw?

I have all three in my config file. When I open cgminer it says it's launching then hangs for a minute or more before finally listing the names of all three servers, the worker name & password and lets me press any key or wait for it to retry.

If I leave leave the room and just periodically check in my browser with all three pool locations open in tabs, I'll see it connect to one of the three randomly for a minute or three and drop the connection. Sometimes it will connect and drop from the same one over and over so the shares line on the dashboard looks like a sine wave.  

the dashboard is not real time and not very accurate for sub 5-10GH/s its based on your submissions over past period 1-3mins

as long as you can see shares have submitted for that round it should be good, look at U:x.x/m in cgminer for shares to server, 1.3GH/s is ~ U:0.5/m and 3.16GH/s is ~ U:1.4/m as a rough guide

pings look good I agree its kind of weird  

you could try the 3.7 version maybe that will help maybe not?
https://github.com/kR105/cgminer

Most of the time it doesn't even connect at all so there's no share numbers to look at.  The share level isn't in real time but it's definitely not supposed to drop to zero over and over and over like that.  It looks consistent with what I was able to observe where it occasionally would connect briefly and sporadically.

I don't think the cgminer version is  the issue. I've tried putting different pool info into the Blake version and, while it can't mine on the scrypt pool, it does connect normally. When I  try your pools in the scrypt version of cgminer I also have on the same PC, it does the same thing where it won't connect. And of course the scrypt version connects and works fine with a scrypt pool.

So I'm stumped. Also don't know how I'm going to get the orphaned currency from your pool since there's no manual payout option visible and I have less than the minimum payout amount of Blakecoin and Dirac scattered accross all three servers.


Edit: Is it possible my worker got banned in some way by the pool, or my IP address blocked by the server firewall?

[BlueDragon747]

Most of the time it doesn't even connect at all so there's no share numbers to look at.  The share level isn't in real time but it's definitely not supposed to drop to zero over and over and over like that.  It looks consistent with what I was able to observe where it occasionally would connect briefly and sporadically.

I don't think the cgminer version is  the issue. I've tried putting different pool info into the Blake version and, while it can't mine on the scrypt pool, it does connect normally. When I  try your pools in the scrypt version of cgminer I also have on the same PC, it does the same thing where it won't connect. And of course the scrypt version connects and works fine with a scrypt pool.

So I'm stumped. Also don't know how I'm going to get the orphaned currency from your pool since there's no manual payout option visible and I have less than the minimum payout amount of Blakecoin and Dirac scattered accross all three servers.

for <5GH/s the dashboard can repeatedly drop to 0 if it does not get enough shares in time period, the pool stats should show your shares in round if they are valid

Manual payouts off is far better than the pool getting duped and the wallets going into negative with the recent DDoS attacks it is just not possible to turn them on

no idea why you have issues with connecting to the pool server I have multiple rigs and they all stay on first pool in list unless that is down or reset (server code changes or crash) then it mines 2nd in list and switches back once the 1st is back online, currently have miners in all the merged pools and no issues with connection

I am currently working on two more pools on one in Chicago and the other in London these are with a different provider to the current pools, but LA1 is also a different provider from EU3 and NY2  

edit:
had a look back at your conf and noticed a few things you could try if you have not done so already remove

Code:

"api-allow" : "w:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : true,
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"thread_concurrency" : "8192",
"lookup-gap" : "2",

[infernoman]

did you try the cgminer that i suggested? try that. and then download msi afterburner. AND make sure your fan speeds are set to 100 % NOT AUTO http://www.blakecoin.org/cgminer-alt-pool-eu.7z is the one i was talking about. edit the .conf file and before you start it make sure to download msi afterburner and max the fans !!!

[drumingspz]

Last night I was enlightened by someone about Blakecoin and the future potential of the blake256 algorithm, so I've switched my mining rig to full time blc! Just wanted to report my hashrates for anybody with a similar setup looking for ball park numbers, I'm very impressed with the blake256 efficiency so far: high hash rates, low temps. I'm using the kR105 cgminer and running BAMT 1.5.2, it was actually quite easy to switch from scrypt to blake256 - I'm impressed.

I have 4x Gigabyte R9 270s:


I'll be happy to share my config if anybody with 270s is interested, just ask.

I just found Blakecoin myself and would like to move my BAMT rig to Blake-256.  Anybody know how to upgrade the miner in BAMT so that I can use the merged mining miner?

[AFaQ]

Wow I really love this coin

[drumingspz]

Last night I was enlightened by someone about Blakecoin and the future potential of the blake256 algorithm, so I've switched my mining rig to full time blc! Just wanted to report my hashrates for anybody with a similar setup looking for ball park numbers, I'm very impressed with the blake256 efficiency so far: high hash rates, low temps. I'm using the kR105 cgminer and running BAMT 1.5.2, it was actually quite easy to switch from scrypt to blake256 - I'm impressed.

I have 4x Gigabyte R9 270s:


I'll be happy to share my config if anybody with 270s is interested, just ask.

I just found Blakecoin myself and would like to move my BAMT rig to Blake-256.  Anybody know how to upgrade the miner in BAMT so that I can use the merged mining miner?

I was able to clone the git repository for the miner but can't get it to build.  Anybody with some pointers?

[BlueDragon747]

I was able to clone the git repository for the miner but can't get it to build.  Anybody with some pointers?

Calhil did a build guide to ubuntu here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=306894.msg6764336#msg6764336

[worth]

Most of the time it doesn't even connect at all so there's no share numbers to look at.  The share level isn't in real time but it's definitely not supposed to drop to zero over and over and over like that.  It looks consistent with what I was able to observe where it occasionally would connect briefly and sporadically.

I don't think the cgminer version is  the issue. I've tried putting different pool info into the Blake version and, while it can't mine on the scrypt pool, it does connect normally. When I  try your pools in the scrypt version of cgminer I also have on the same PC, it does the same thing where it won't connect. And of course the scrypt version connects and works fine with a scrypt pool.

So I'm stumped. Also don't know how I'm going to get the orphaned currency from your pool since there's no manual payout option visible and I have less than the minimum payout amount of Blakecoin and Dirac scattered accross all three servers.

for <5GH/s the dashboard can repeatedly drop to 0 if it does not get enough shares in time period, the pool stats should show your shares in round if they are valid

Manual payouts off is far better than the pool getting duped and the wallets going into negative with the recent DDoS attacks it is just not possible to turn them on

I guess that's most of a Dirac I'll have to consider lost, then.

no idea why you have issues with connecting to the pool server I have multiple rigs and they all stay on first pool in list unless that is down or reset (server code changes or crash) then it mines 2nd in list and switches back once the 1st is back online, currently have miners in all the merged pools and no issues with connection

Yes, this is exactly the behavior I've always seen in every other situation, including with this same PC yesterday when testing other pools.

edit:
had a look back at your conf and noticed a few things you could try if you have not done so already remove

Code:

"api-allow" : "w:127.0.0.1",
"api-listen" : true,
"api-mcast-port" : "4028",
"api-port" : "4028",
"thread_concurrency" : "8192",
"lookup-gap" : "2",

Yeah, I removed the last two lines above first because I saw elsewhere in the thread that they're not needed. I also tried removing the api- lines too, nothing changes it.  It definitely has nothing to do with the conf file because I tried using the scrypt version of cgminer with a copy of one of my known-good conf files with only the server URLs changed to yours and no other changes and it does the exact same thing.  And the Blake version of cgminer works normally/as expected when substituting a known-good scrypt pool with your pool info. 

So the only issue seems to be specifically with your pools. 

Again, is it possible my worker or account could be banned in some way by your pools, or the IP address blocked by a server firewall? I can DM you the info so you can check if that's a possibility. Thanks.

[BlueDragon747]

yep send me your IP and I will double check if any of the scripts have banned you by mistake