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

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Source Code of 0.20 for Linux released.

GCC requirement lowered to 4.4
AMD CAL/OpenCL supported (compilation works, but really not tested under linux).

OMG!  Thank you!  I will get right on this to test its comparative hashing power against cgminer.  Remember everyone who intends on testing; test average results, not hashing speed as efficiency is a huge factor as well.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Source Code of 0.20 for Linux released.

GCC requirement lowered to 4.4
AMD CAL/OpenCL supported (compilation works, but really not tested under linux).

Was that so hard?

[village.idiot]

So let me know when someone has dumbed down instructions so I can run it in Linux

[bearbalu]

So let me know when someone has dumbed down instructions so I can run it in Linux

use SEARCH

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3486.msg202979#msg202979

[village.idiot]

yeah, I missed that one.

Thanks, I'll see if it's dumb enough 

[os2sam]

My hashrate went from 440MHs with 0.19 to 315MHs with 0.20.  So I'm sticking with 0.19 for Windoze for now.
Sam

[shaps]

I think you should try to inquire as to what malicious behavior it contains.  It sounds to me like they are reselling rebranded software and have no clue what they are talking about.  I was able to get Symantec and GFI to reclassify the previous version as a potentially unwanted tool, which is accurate, unless there is behavior that would classify it as something else.

Sent them an email asking them to clarify.  Will see what they respond with...

Got a response from them:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for your recent inquiry.

The file is riskware and the detection could be renamed to SPR/BitcomMiner.A. The new detection will be available with one of the next VDF updates.

For further questions don't hesitate to contact us.

[The00Dustin]

Got a response from them:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for your recent inquiry.

The file is riskware and the detection could be renamed to SPR/BitcomMiner.A. The new detection will be available with one of the next VDF updates.

For further questions don't hesitate to contact us.

Good deal.  That's legitimate, companies and people should be made aware that such software is on their computer (if they aren't already), and there is potential risk involved with the software (potential legal liability or electrical costs, for instance).  So long as it isn't flagged as a trojan or other malware, another AV company is getting it right.  Hopefully the AV software in question has the option to not detect riskware (as they call it, every company has their own categories) and/or the option to specifically allow that risk (via definition instead as opposed to exclusion).

[Zenitur]

There are Linux 32-bit unofficial binaries (one for CPU and one for CPU + AMD GPU). Need for test. If nobody will have errors, it can become official.

http://zenitur.narod.ru/ufasoft-miner-0.20.tar.lzma

[mrx]

There are Linux 32-bit unofficial binaries (one for CPU and one for CPU + AMD GPU). Need for test. If nobody will have errors, it can become official.

http://zenitur.narod.ru/ufasoft-miner-0.20.tar.lzma

Thanks! I can run the CPU-only binary on a 64-bit server w/o any problems(except moving a lib to /usr/lib32). Now I don't need to compile it on a vm myself, since I still can't manage to compile this miner under 64-bit.

Code:

bitcoin-miner 0.20  Copyright (c) 2011 Ufasoft  http://ufasoft.com/open/bitcoin
Mining for http://SC.btcguild.com:8332
Using CPU (8 threads)
31.08.2011 22:07:20 Result: 722A06C2E566BD0E60FC8B49A26D0BB2E306B3010D1E24F72830C2ED00000000 accepted
28.2 MHash/s     
0@$ log  1@$ mem  2@$ top  3*$ miner  4-$ wiab  5@$ iftop  6$ shell                 

[Zenitur]

You don't need to move libraries in /usr/lib32! Just run application with whis string: LC_ALL=C LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lib ./bitcoin-miner. Or use myself writed script.

[Paul4games]

Ufasoft are you still updating the miner?

[Sleepy]

I encountered an Problem with Ufasoft and PoolServerJ.
It seems PoolServerJ only accept lowercase Results and Ufasoft sends it uppercase...

However, till this behavior is fixed in PoolServerJ, I´ve got a little fix for Ufasoft:

In bitcoin-client.cpp:

At BitcoinMiner::SubmitResult insert

Code:

arg.MakeLower();

right before

Code:

String r = wc.UploadString(GetCurrentUrl(), arg);

If you want the displayed result also in lowercase, insert

Code:

shash.MakeLower();

before

Code:

TRACE_BITCOIN(cout << (isatty(fileno(stdout)) ? "\r" : "") << DateTime::Now() << " Result: " << shash << (r ? " accepted" : " rejected") << endl);

Since the conversion is only performed when an result is already local tested it should not affect the performance at all.

[shads]

I encountered an Problem with Ufasoft and PoolServerJ.
It seems PoolServerJ only accept lowercase Results and Ufasoft sends it uppercase...

However, till this behavior is fixed in PoolServerJ, I´ve got a little fix for Ufasoft:

This is now handled by poolserverj.  Though I prefer the term workaround for Ufasoft's weird behaviour to fix.  Why on earth would you convert the solution to uppercase?

[ufasoft]

Where is it specified that hexadecimal data should be in lower case?
Any parser should understand any- and mixed-case letters.

[FalconFour]

Where is it specified that hexadecimal data should be in lower case?
Any parser should understand any- and mixed-case letters.

+1 on this just for backup's sake... I work with a lot of hex stuff and while hashes are typically represented in lowercase, it's very poor form to make anything case-sensitive to hex values. Not even Linux is case-sensitive to hex values AFAIK...

Anyway, I just stopped by to ask a quick question. Is there a way to set "aggression" in ufasoft's (rather efficient, it seems) CUDA miner? It makes my desktop almost completely unusable when I run it, and it'd be nice to be able to use the office PC I'm mining on at ~3 MHash/sec on an 8600GT

[ufasoft]

Is there a way to set "aggression" in ufasoft's (rather efficient, it seems) CUDA miner?

No. Aggression setting is not implemented

[FalconFour]

No. Aggression setting is not implemented

Fair 'nuf I still use it for CPU mining - 11.3 MH/s on my Core 2 Quad Q6600 I just installed, but I split out the GPU mining to  Phoenix with aggression=1, 2.7MH/s is a tiny but appreciable boost.

All your work on this miner is much appreciated! I'll send something your way in donations - I've only made about 1.5bcn on mining to date, so I hope it's not too small...

[billywilly]

Have an issue to install on linux

Code:

miner4@miner4-pc:~/ufasoft_bitcoin-miner-0.20$ sudo CC=gcc-4.5 CXX=g++-4.5 ./configure && sudo make && sudo make install
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc-4.5
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc-4.5 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc-4.5 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc-4.5... gcc3
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++-4.5 accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++-4.5... gcc3
checking for g++-4.5... /usr/bin/g++-4.5
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for jwasm... jwasm
checking for pcre_compile in -lpcre... yes
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
checking for curl_global_init in -lcurl... yes
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking for clock_gettime in -lrt... yes
checking for gcc 4.4... yes
configure: error: "set AMDAPPSDKROOT environment variable or run ./configure --disable-amdapp"

note that i've already running phoenix and poclbm --> OpenCL it's correctly running (11.6 & 2.4).

Also tried whit this too -->

Code:

sudo CC=gcc-4.5 CXX=g++-4.5 AMDAPPSDKROOT=/opt/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/bin/x86_64/ ./configure && sudo make && sudo make install

[ufasoft]

Also tried whit this too -->

Code:

sudo CC=gcc-4.5 CXX=g++-4.5 AMDAPPSDKROOT=/opt/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/bin/x86_64/ ./configure && sudo make && sudo make install

This command is not correct
Do following:

1. sudo bash
2. CC=gcc-4.5 CXX=g++-4.5 AMDAPPSDKROOT=/opt/AMD-APP-SDK-v2.4-lnx64/bin/x86_64/ ./configure && make