[Preview] Smelter - GPU miner for WhirlpoolX (Vanillacoin)

[TheMightyX]

Hey Smolen,
Thanks for your work on these miners.
I'm not sure how I feel about the 1/10th reward share at this time (as I'm not able to run the miner), but in theory I think its a viable business model.
That being said I have a decent Radeon 4850 and a Nvideo 280 GTX. Not new by any standards but decent ass cards.

Unfortunately I'm getting the errors:
Failed to read source file: ./quark0td/kernel/kernelQuark.cl
SummonProgram failed
ThreadHost::Thread() unexpected exception:clCreateKernel call failed

Any chance of getting this to run on my rigs or is it a lost cause?
I've tried v2 and v3.

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Not helpful but yes, I can read, no nvidia support. But one of my cards is radeon.
Also I didn't mention the nvidia gets a different error:

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[Pk9499]

FIXED!! Thank you guys, I love you and I want to have your children xx

EDIT: Here's my rate on a 5830. Makes the computer laggy as hell, typing this was painful, but I guess these settings will do for overnight mining.  Now if I only knew what 1: A: R: and HW: meant!

Code:

F:\quarkcoin083r6win>smelter -o http://127.0.0.1:8385 -u username -p password -w
 64 -g 1 -i 200 -a XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
smelter v0.3 (c) Smolen
Royalty: 1/10
1:0 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.58MH/s 5s: 1.86MH/s
1:0 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.72MH/s 5s: 1.88MH/s
1:0 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.78MH/s 5s: 1.89MH/s
1:0 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.81MH/s 5s: 1.91MH/s
1:0 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.81MH/s 5s: 1.84MH/s
1:1 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.83MH/s 5s: 1.90MH/s
1:2 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.85MH/s 5s: 1.96MH/s
1:2 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.85MH/s 5s: 1.89MH/s
1:2 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.86MH/s 5s: 1.89MH/s
1:3 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.85MH/s 5s: 1.85MH/s
1:4 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.86MH/s 5s: 1.89MH/s
1:4 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.86MH/s 5s: 1.89MH/s
1:4 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.87MH/s 5s: 1.96MH/s
1:4 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.87MH/s 5s: 1.89MH/s
1:4 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.87MH/s 5s: 1.86MH/s
1:5 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.87MH/s 5s: 1.86MH/s
1:5 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.87MH/s 5s: 1.90MH/s
1:7 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.87MH/s 5s: 1.88MH/s
1:8 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.87MH/s 5s: 1.89MH/s
1:9 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.87MH/s 5s: 1.90MH/s
1:10 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.88MH/s 5s: 1.91MH/s
1:11 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.88MH/s 5s: 1.90MH/s

[Hilux74]

A= Accepted (ie you solved a block ding ding winner winner chicken dinner!!)
R= Rejected (ie you solved a block but someone else did faster than you...doh!)
HW = Hardware Errors (do not want to see this change from 0)

[verloren]

Hey Smolen,
Thanks for your work on these miners.
I'm not sure how I feel about the 1/10th reward share at this time (as I'm not able to run the miner), but in theory I think its a viable business model.
That being said I have a decent Radeon 4850 and a Nvideo 280 GTX. Not new by any standards but decent ass cards.

Unfortunately I'm getting the errors:
Failed to read source file: ./quark0td/kernel/kernelQuark.cl
SummonProgram failed
ThreadHost::Thread() unexpected exception:clCreateKernel call failed

Any chance of getting this to run on my rigs or is it a lost cause?
I've tried v2 and v3.

Certain Radeon series don't work. Oldest reported working GPU is a 58xx.

[TheMightyX]

Hey Smolen,
Thanks for your work on these miners.
I'm not sure how I feel about the 1/10th reward share at this time (as I'm not able to run the miner), but in theory I think its a viable business model.
That being said I have a decent Radeon 4850 and a Nvideo 280 GTX. Not new by any standards but decent ass cards.

Unfortunately I'm getting the errors:
Failed to read source file: ./quark0td/kernel/kernelQuark.cl
SummonProgram failed
ThreadHost::Thread() unexpected exception:clCreateKernel call failed

Any chance of getting this to run on my rigs or is it a lost cause?
I've tried v2 and v3.

Certain Radeon series don't work. Oldest reported working GPU is a 58xx.

Ahh thank you very much for that info.
That should be added to the OP.

[Pk9499]

Thanks Hilux74

....10 hours after I first got it to work.....

Code:

1:3554 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.78MH/s 5s: 1.88MH/s

Aww man, I was expecting to be rolling in Quarks now!  Is the effort of this cumulative in some way, ie if I switch it off now will I have lost some progress?

[Hilux74]

Thanks Hilux74

....10 hours after I first got it to work.....

Code:

1:3554 A:0 R:0 HW:0 Speed: 1.78MH/s 5s: 1.88MH/s

Aww man, I was expecting to be rolling in Quarks now!  Is the effort of this cumulative in some way, ie if I switch it off now will I have lost some progress?

Very hard to get solo Quark or SecureCoin blocks now.  Best use for Smelter on a single GPU now is Cthulu or Frozen and hope one of them gets worth something...hopefully Cthulu.

[Pk9499]

Thanks Hilux, you rock.  I hope someone creates a QRK pool GPU miner soon though I guess Smolen isn't too motivated as she/he might lose their cut that they skim off at the moment.

I'd never heard of Cthulu or Frozen crypto coins before. I think I'll leave Smelter running on Quark and just hope I'm lucky - just under 2MHs doesn't seem too bad.  How many million (!) QRK could I expect to receive if I found a block?

[ptraf]

Please add the support for graphics cards Hawaii ( Radeon R290, 290X)
Now when you run any version gives an error

Failed to read source file: ./quark0td/kernel/kernelQuark.cl
SummonProgram failed
ThreadHost::Thread() unexpected exception:clCreateKernel call failed

[busoni]

Certain Radeon series don't work. Oldest reported working GPU is a 58xx.

I'm not sure if they're older, but I have several 5750s mining with smelter, and they work very well.

[Fletch]

I'm not sure if they're older, but I have several 5750s mining with smelter, and they work very well.

What kind of hashrates are you getting? Solving any blocks?

[busoni]

I'm not sure if they're older, but I have several 5750s mining with smelter, and they work very well.

What kind of hashrates are you getting? Solving any blocks?

My 5750s get about 1.38MH/s each; my 5850s get about 2.5MH/s each. (I overclock them.)

All my cards together amount to about 18MH/s, and I find plenty of blocks--about what I should according to the estimates on pools. Of course, there is a huge amount of random variance in solo mining. Some days I find twice as many as I should, other days I find just one.

It is still the most profitable use of these cards, but that may change soon, as the price drops and the difficulty rises.

[Pk9499]

I'm running a 5830 and get ~1.8Mh/s and have been running it overnight every night for about 5 nights. I found my first block last night and got 14.4QRKS

I'm thinking that I should try and overclock my card. It's currently at GPU 825MHz Memory 1025MHz running at 65 degrees. I'll have a play around and report back.

[Fletch]

I'm running a 5830 and get ~1.8Mh/s and have been running it overnight every night for about 5 nights. I found my first block last night and got 14.4QRKS

You'd get a lot more CPU-mining with a pool. You could then use the GPU to mine litecoin or any other scrypt based crypto.

[Pk9499]

I have my CPU, i7 920, mining 24/7 at 250KH/s with http://qrk.mine-pool.net p2p.  I was mining at http://www.coinmine.pl/qrk/index.php but changed over.

[STT]

Does cpu use less watts then a gpu, my guess is a i7 is similar to a 7950

[ptraf]

Smelter
when will the new version? supporting hawaii

[rahlquist]

Certain Radeon series don't work. Oldest reported working GPU is a 58xx.

My 5770 worked

[Pk9499]

Ooo I came down this morning to see what Smelter has had two blocks accepted over night. Easily a personal best for me. I saw the Quarkcoin QT wallet system tray note flash up with a transaction but unfortunately it vanished as soon as I moved my mouse. Looking in the transaction history of the wallet shows no transactions though 

I checked my cmd file and the wallet address is correct. I closed and reopened my Quark wallet and it claims to be up to date. Where'd my QRKs go ?

http://i39.tinypic.com/30jn4go.png

[picbb1]

Ooo I came down this morning to see what Smelter has had two blocks accepted over night. Easily a personal best for me. I saw the Quarkcoin QT wallet system tray note flash up with a transaction but unfortunately it vanished as soon as I moved my mouse. Looking in the transaction history of the wallet shows no transactions though 

I checked my cmd file and the wallet address is correct. I closed and reopened my Quark wallet and it claims to be up to date. Where'd my QRKs go ?

http://i39.tinypic.com/30jn4go.png

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