[ANN] rhminer - an optimized CPU+GPU miner for PascalCoin

[redmonski]

Hi,

I'm new to all this but have got a a couple of old servers mining plus my desktop.  My problem is that rhminer is not finding my GPU.  I've checked it's supported and it is (GTX 770).

When I ran the rhminer -list command all I got was CPU information and when trying to run using the GPU I get a message something like -gpu is an invalid command.

Does the card require a specific driver version?  Any help would be much appreciated.  

What rhminer version are you using? rhminer 1.2 release works with gpu.You may want to check the discord for help on gpu mining. But don't expect too much hashrate from gpu, PascalCoin randomhash algorithm is designed to be cpu friendly. Even a midrange intel cpu beats a gtx 1080ti.

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[brittonc]

Hi,

I'm new to all this but have got a a couple of old servers mining plus my desktop.  My problem is that rhminer is not finding my GPU.  I've checked it's supported and it is (GTX 770).

When I ran the rhminer -list command all I got was CPU information and when trying to run using the GPU I get a message something like -gpu is an invalid command.

Does the card require a specific driver version?  Any help would be much appreciated.  

What rhminer version are you using? rhminer 1.2 release works with gpu.You may want to check the discord for help on gpu mining.

I'm using v 1.3.

I'll take a look at the discord too.  Thanks.

[tlaskows]

Hi,

I'm new to all this but have got a a couple of old servers mining plus my desktop.  My problem is that rhminer is not finding my GPU.  I've checked it's supported and it is (GTX 770).

When I ran the rhminer -list command all I got was CPU information and when trying to run using the GPU I get a message something like -gpu is an invalid command.

Does the card require a specific driver version?  Any help would be much appreciated.  

What rhminer version are you using? rhminer 1.2 release works with gpu.You may want to check the discord for help on gpu mining.

I'm using v 1.3.

I'll take a look at the discord too.  Thanks.

1.3 is CPU only and you need the nvidia-cuda-toolkit installed under Linux for 1.2 to work.  I am not sure about Windows.  This is my old PC:

Code:

root@thebeast:~/rhminer# ./rhminer -list

  rhminer v1.3 beta for CPU by polyminer1 (https://github.com/polyminer1/rhminer)
  Build CPU Jan 11 2019 16:11:50 

  Donations : Pascal account 529692-23 
  Donations : Bitcoin address 19GfXGpRJfwcHPx2Nf8wHgMps8Eat1o4Jp 

List of gpus and cpus:
CPU  : Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.40GHz
root@thebeast:~/rhminer# hashcat -I
hashcat (v5.1.0) starting...

OpenCL Info:

Platform ID #1
  Vendor  : NVIDIA Corporation
  Name    : NVIDIA CUDA
  Version : OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 9.1.84

  Device ID #1
    Type           : GPU
    Vendor ID      : 32
    Vendor         : NVIDIA Corporation
    Name           : GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    Version        : OpenCL 1.2 CUDA
    Processor(s)   : 28
    Clock          : 1670
    Memory         : 2793/11175 MB allocatable
    OpenCL Version : OpenCL C 1.2 
    Driver Version : 390.87

Platform ID #2
  Vendor  : The pocl project
  Name    : Portable Computing Language
  Version : OpenCL 1.2 pocl 1.2 None+Asserts, LLVM 6.0.1, SLEEF, DISTRO, POCL_DEBUG

  Device ID #2
    Type           : CPU
    Vendor ID      : 128
    Vendor         : GenuineIntel
    Name           : pthread-Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.40GHz
    Version        : OpenCL 1.2 pocl HSTR: pthread-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-haswell
    Processor(s)   : 24
    Clock          : 2700
    Memory         : 8192/30030 MB allocatable
    OpenCL Version : OpenCL C 1.2 pocl
    Driver Version : 1.2

[4ward]

1.3 doesn't detect any devices on windows (system with amd card)

[redmonski]

1.3 doesn't detect any devices on windows (system with amd card)

rhminer is for nvidia devices only, no support yet for amd cards.

[4ward]

1.3 doesn't detect any devices on windows (system with amd card)

rhminer is for nvidia devices only, no support yet for amd cards.

Isn't 1.3 CPU only? So it should not care about a GPU and just run regardless?

[redmonski]

1.3 doesn't detect any devices on windows (system with amd card)

rhminer is for nvidia devices only, no support yet for amd cards.

Isn't 1.3 CPU only? So it should not care about a GPU and just run regardless?

your bat file looks like this?
:start
  REM Mining on mine.pool.pascalpool.org with four CPU thread
  rhminer.exe -r 20 -s stratum+tcp://mine.pool.pascalpool.org:3333 -su ACCOUNT.0.WORKER/EMAIL -cpu -cputhreads 4
goto start

[brittonc]

OK, I see I need v1.2 for GPU.

I'll give that a go.  Thanks very much.

[4ward]

1.3 doesn't detect any devices on windows (system with amd card)

rhminer is for nvidia devices only, no support yet for amd cards.

Isn't 1.3 CPU only? So it should not care about a GPU and just run regardless?

your bat file looks like this?
:start
  REM Mining on mine.pool.pascalpool.org with four CPU thread
  rhminer.exe -r 20 -s stratum+tcp://mine.pool.pascalpool.org:3333 -su ACCOUNT.0.WORKER/EMAIL -cpu -cputhreads 4
goto start

yup, the same, except it just exits without any message

rhminer -completelist
rhminer -list

also return nothing


1.2 runs fine, but its significantly slower

[redmonski]

1.3 doesn't detect any devices on windows (system with amd card)

rhminer is for nvidia devices only, no support yet for amd cards.

Isn't 1.3 CPU only? So it should not care about a GPU and just run regardless?

your bat file looks like this?
:start
  REM Mining on mine.pool.pascalpool.org with four CPU thread
  rhminer.exe -r 20 -s stratum+tcp://mine.pool.pascalpool.org:3333 -su ACCOUNT.0.WORKER/EMAIL -cpu -cputhreads 4
goto start

yup, the same, except it just exits without any message

rhminer -completelist
rhminer -list

also return nothing


1.2 runs fine, but its significantly slower

Maybe someone from the discord mining channel can help you - https://discord.gg/RVcEpF9

[tlaskows]

1.3 doesn't detect any devices on windows (system with amd card)

rhminer is for nvidia devices only, no support yet for amd cards.

Isn't 1.3 CPU only? So it should not care about a GPU and just run regardless?

your bat file looks like this?
:start
  REM Mining on mine.pool.pascalpool.org with four CPU thread
  rhminer.exe -r 20 -s stratum+tcp://mine.pool.pascalpool.org:3333 -su ACCOUNT.0.WORKER/EMAIL -cpu -cputhreads 4
goto start

yup, the same, except it just exits without any message

rhminer -completelist
rhminer -list

also return nothing


1.2 runs fine, but its significantly slower

Mine is almost the same.  It looks exactly like this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
while true
do
	./rhminer -r 40 -s mine.pool.pascalpool.org:3335 -su 1300300-41.0.xeon/noname@gmail.com -cpu -cputhreads 24
	sleep 5s
done

It has been running for 1-2 months and it's still running without crashing once.

I will consider switching back to Windows if it crashes.

[brittonc]

OK, ran v1.2 with GPU and it worked.  It picked up my GTX770 but there was no real benefit.  I was only getting an extra 40-50H/S more and my system was less stable.  When I'm getting around 1000H/S from the CPU it made more sense to go back to v1.3 and just use the CPU.

I have seen people reporting speeds of 600MH/s from a GPU (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1778118.0) so was a little surprised to only get about 50H/S.

[polyminer1]

This post is from 2017.
Now PascalCoin uses RandomHash since nov 2018.
Speed are much slower, and the algo is tuned to be much more slower on GPU.

[redmonski]

reposted from Discord.

Hi community,

Every blockchain needs a proper explorer and we know we've been behind in that matter - well, apart from that the wallet is already a full featured explorer from day 1 ;-)

Therefore we are happy to announce the new PascalCoin web-explorer at http://new-explorer.pascalcoin.org/ !

This is a public beta release, so expect some hiccups throughout the beta phase. This beta-phase shouldn't take longer than 2 weeks and will then replace the old explorer at http://explorer.pascalcoin.org/.

[redmonski]

Here's a comparison of my Ryzen desktop pc and i7 mini pc. My mini pc is better on both metrics - hash/thread and hash/watt.

CPU                                       CORE     THREADS   CLOCK   TDP (WATTS)*         RAM               RAM SPEED       OS                   Miner            HASH/S     HASH/THREAD   HASH/WATT
Intel i7 8750h (Mini PC)          6         12           3,200        45                 Dual 16gb         2,400               Ubuntu 18.04   Rhminer 1.3     2,200         183                       49
AMD Ryzen 1950X                 16         18           3,600       180                 Dual 32gb         3,200               Ubuntu 18.04   Rhminer 1.3     3,100         172                       17
                                 
* CPU Power Consumption only (excluding other PC components)

The Ryzen desktop is actually quad channel, 2 more ram sticks should get me to 5,000 h/s. But still the i7 8750h is more power efficient.                                 

[redmonski]

rhminer v1.4 already released with major gpu optimizations.

gtx 1060 3gb 280 threads +196%
gtx 1070 8gb 384 threads +218%
gtx 950 2gb 140 threads +226% [linux]

[HaloGenius]

Hello there!

With update 0.6-22@190309 rhminer CPU version added to Hive OS

[maxfunky]

I think I will add someday randomhash to cpuminer-opt and be happy)

I hope you do it and share my friend.. 

[TableController]

Any chance of compiling on ARM or macOS? I've tried both but not succeeded. Would love to see rhminer running on more platforms.

[polyminer1]

Any chance of compiling on ARM or macOS? I've tried both but not succeeded. Would love to see rhminer running on more platforms.

Someone started it on the Discord forum, they did not updated me on it.
Someone else did it for Monero and realized it was completely pointless in term of hashrate, but was very fun to do anyways

MacOS will come at some point in the future.

Polyminer1