Ufasoft Miner - Windows/Linux, x86/x64, SSE2/OpenCL, Open Source

[ufasoft]

BTW Ufasoft, you made a minor typo in your edit of your first post to reflect the version number.  You jumped from version 19 to 29.  ;-)

Thank you

I don't recall 7zip being used before. Why now? pita to install yet another utility to unzip something. Doesn't 7zip offer the normal .zip extension?
fug it not worthy

Just one reason, encrypted zip don't hide filenames inside it. So scanners can complain about "bitcoin-miner.exe" inside archive.
They report about it as a virus to hosting company.

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[Paul4games]

Ufasoft could you add an option to use gpu mining only when computer it's idle?

[ufasoft]

Ufasoft could you add an option to use gpu mining only when computer it's idle?

How do you define this state "computer is idle"?

Does it mean "CPU usage is 0% during hour"?
No keyboard/mouse activity?

Anyway you can write your own program which detects "Idle" state and runs miner. then when it detects user activity it will stop the miner.

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Ufasoft could you add an option to use gpu mining only when computer it's idle?

You can use Windows scheduler if you're in Windows to only run the program when the system is idle.  Otherwise, you can set the miner for idle priority in task manager.

[Paul4games]

Ufasoft could you add an option to use gpu mining only when computer it's idle?

How do you define this state "computer is idle"?

Does it mean "CPU usage is 0% during hour"?
No keyboard/mouse activity?

Anyway you can write your own program which detects "Idle" state and runs miner. then when it detects user activity it will stop the miner.

No keyboard/mouse activity+cpu usage lower then lets say 25%.

[village.idiot]

Need a little assistance here.

I've installed Windoze 7 on my mining rig with the latest drivers for my GPUs.
Added SDK so that GpuCapsViewer says I have OpenCL.
Odd that it says I have 2 devices, one being the CPU.
I have two 5770 graphics cards.

bitcoin-miner only detects my CPU.  What am I missing?

[Paul4games]

I got the following reply from symatec:

We are writing in relation to your submission through Symantec's on-line Security Risk / False Positive Dispute Submission form for your software being detected by Symantec Software. After downloading bitcoin-miner.exe, install and scan it with Symantec's latest definitions we have been unable to reproduce this detection. Can we please ask you to ensure that you are using Symantec's latest virus definitions for detection? They can be found using live update or alternatively from the URL below.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/defs.download.html

Due to not being able to reproduce this issue we require the additional information below to progress the dispute.

* The message or a screen shot of the message received

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So could somebody confirm that symatec still detects bitcoin-miner?
And ufasoft could you add an backup pool option, so if the main pool it's down the miner to switch to the second pool?

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Need a little assistance here.

I've installed Windoze 7 on my mining rig with the latest drivers for my GPUs.
Added SDK so that GpuCapsViewer says I have OpenCL.
Odd that it says I have 2 devices, one being the CPU.
I have two 5770 graphics cards.

bitcoin-miner only detects my CPU.  What am I missing?

The SDK isn't required under Windows as the OpenCL is included in the ATI (AMD) drivers anymore.  If you had to download the SDK, then you don't have have the latest drivers from ATI.

[village.idiot]

Need a little assistance here.

I've installed Windoze 7 on my mining rig with the latest drivers for my GPUs.
Added SDK so that GpuCapsViewer says I have OpenCL.
Odd that it says I have 2 devices, one being the CPU.
I have two 5770 graphics cards.

bitcoin-miner only detects my CPU.  What am I missing?

The SDK isn't required under Windows as the OpenCL is included in the ATI (AMD) drivers anymore.  If you had to download the SDK, then you don't have have the latest drivers from ATI.

My cards are Gigabyte so I went to their site to get the latest drivers.
Where should I go?

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Need a little assistance here.

I've installed Windoze 7 on my mining rig with the latest drivers for my GPUs.
Added SDK so that GpuCapsViewer says I have OpenCL.
Odd that it says I have 2 devices, one being the CPU.
I have two 5770 graphics cards.

bitcoin-miner only detects my CPU.  What am I missing?

The SDK isn't required under Windows as the OpenCL is included in the ATI (AMD) drivers anymore.  If you had to download the SDK, then you don't have have the latest drivers from ATI.

My cards are Gigabyte so I went to their site to get the latest drivers.
Where should I go?

To the people who designed the GPU. 

AMD

   

[village.idiot]

That's slick.
I was just looking that up.  I asked the question without even thinking about it.
Shame on me.
All I need is the OpenCL driver?

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Download the whole package.  It's included in it as you probably see after reading the contents of the download package listed on the download page.

[village.idiot]

Was just about click the Install button for just the OpenCL when your post came up.  Aborted

Downloading the suite now.

Thanks

[village.idiot]

Download the whole package.  It's included in it as you probably see after reading the contents of the download package listed on the download page.

That worked!  It sees both my cards now in addition to the CPU.

You're my hero for today!  Thanks

Now I've just got to figure out the command line(s)

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Download the whole package.  It's included in it as you probably see after reading the contents of the download package listed on the download page.

That worked!  It sees both my cards now in addition to the CPU.

You're my hero for today!  Thanks

Now I've just got to figure out the command line(s)

No problem.  ^_^  The command line is pretty straightforward.  What I'm using currently is Ufasoft for 3/4 cores and then Phoenix with the phatk2 kernel for the GPU card.  I left out the last core because it's used to process data for the GPU miner.  Should you go this route too, don't forget to specify worksize or the kernel will crash due to not containing a default.  Since you have 2 GPUs, I don't know for certain if you'll need one or two CPU cores to run them.  But I would set your CPU threads to (total CPU cores - GPU cores) and see if you get a better rate than just minus one core.

[village.idiot]

Not knowing what I'm doing yet, I'm running separate terminals for each device so I can see what each is doing.  If I understand the -help, I think the -i will let me specify each device with its arguments in one command line.

CPU is running 4 threads.  Nothing has crashed so far.

Hash rate on GPUs is lower that acceptable but I was just looking into installing the msi overclock software to adjust that.

I'll try your suggestion on CPU cores

So does Phoenix with phatk2 give you better results than you can get with just bitcoin-miner?

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Not knowing what I'm doing yet, I'm running separate terminals for each device so I can see what each is doing.  If I understand the -help, I think the -i will let me specify each device with its arguments in one command line.

CPU is running 4 threads.  Nothing has crashed so far.

Hash rate on GPUs is lower that acceptable but I was just looking into installing the msi overclock software to adjust that.

I'll try your suggestion on CPU cores

So does Phoenix with phatk2 give you better results than you can get with just bitcoin-miner?

Actually, yes.  However, there is another miner that allows more control over the phatk2 kernel.  Specifically, it causes it to use different vector sizes back and forth to take advantage of processor command execution times.  I can't recall what it's called exactly and I'm too lazy to click back to the miner links, but it starts with a D.

[Zenitur]

Ecли вы вылoжитe нoвыe иcxoдники, кoличecтвo вaшиx пoльзoвaтeлeй peзкo вoзpacтёт нa 1%.

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Ecли вы вылoжитe нoвыe иcxoдники, кoличecтвo вaшиx пoльзoвaтeлeй peзкo вoзpacтёт нa 1%.

Thank you for brightening up our mainly English-speaking forum chat with a little Russian.  I believe what my Russian friend here is saying is that, if you release the more up-to-date source code, more people will be apt to use and maybe improve upon your work thereby increasing the number of users who use your software by an estimated 1%.  However, I don't believe 1% is going to be all that big of a deal.

[Zenitur]

I just think that authors speak Russian (I found russian words in their site, for example "poisk").

1% - I was talking about *nix users that will install ufasoft miner instead of minerd. Ufasoft Miner is better, but source code is available only for 0.10 version.