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[teknohog]

Having set up solo mining, I have a question about making an alias. While I can issue the make_alias command, do I need to give it every time when restarting the daemon? Is it saved automatically, or is there a way to save it?

[dga]

Having set up solo mining, I have a question about making an alias. While I can issue the make_alias command, do I need to give it every time when restarting the daemon? Is it saved automatically, or is there a way to save it?

You need to issue it after every restart, AFAIK.

I think we need an RPC method to tell the daemon to start working on an alias so that it can be configured without having a terminal attached.

[btc-mike]

Hi people.

What kind of specifications for a computer to mine boolberry?

I am going to buy a computer for mining, but I want it to be able to mine out of the box with no delays.

Just get mining and now, kind of thing, without hassles.

I know that to mine boolberry, I need to have a 64 bit, so I reason I will look for a computer with 64 bit.

64 bit
AMD ATI graphics (but which ones will work to mine boolberry)

Should I also buy a gpu to mine with? if so, which ones?

Thank you in advance

Boolberry GPU mining is no different than other GPU mineable coins. There is tons and tons of information in the altcoin mining sub-forum.

First you need to decide whether this is dedicated mining machine or not. This dictates your mobo/cpu options.

[33zer0w0lf]

I don't think there is a minimum, you can mine with pretty much anything, just depends on how much hash you want to have.

[Apostle4444]

Why AMD? The miner works with Nvidia, too.

My current computer has nvidia, but it was useless for
mining bitcoins and scrypt coins, so I reasoned that its
likely useless for mining x11 coins as well or other coins.
I did try mining last year with the nvidia but that failed as the nvidia i have is not
up to the level requireed for opencl or cuda or something like that.

I am not going to bother with nvidia.




Boolberry GPU mining is no different than other GPU mineable coins. There is tons and tons of information in the altcoin mining sub-forum.

First you need to decide whether this is dedicated mining machine or not. This dictates your mobo/cpu options.




I must be new at mining. I dont know what 'dedicated mining machine' is.
but you say I need to decide this.
and mobo/cpu huh what?




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Thank you for your replies, but neither of you answered my question, and I am still
at the same point where I was:


so far, i need

64 bit
AMD ATI graphics


And I wanted to know the minimum level of the AMD graphics to mine
boolberry, but perhaps also to mine x11 coins as well...
So, maybe you know what the minimum requirements are for amd graphics to mine
boolberry?




Just a thought, but it might help if boolberry had written info about the minimum computer requirements to mine boolberry coins. (apart from mentioning the gpu crap to keep it simpler)


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You need to ask your questions in here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

[crazycoin]

Hi people.

What kind of specifications for a computer to mine boolberry?

I am going to buy a computer for mining, but I want it to be able to mine out of the box with no delays.

Just get mining and now, kind of thing, without hassles.

I know that to mine boolberry, I need to have a 64 bit, so I reason I will look for a computer with 64 bit.



64 bit
AMD ATI graphics (but which ones will work to mine boolberry)

Should I also buy a gpu to mine with? if so, which ones?

Thank you in advance

I  suggest AsRock ProBtc or Biostar HB61 mobo.
Celeron processor.
Gold certified psu.
For boolberry ati may be good solution. You may get some amazing deals buying second hand gpu. But for any  other algorithm like jackpotcoin Nvidia 750ti rocks. So from risk management point of view you are better of with 750ti. Plus you need cheaper psu with it.

[teknohog]

I don't think there is a minimum, you can mine with pretty much anything, just depends on how much hash you want to have.

My HD 5870 is getting around 550 khash/s. I've been trying to sell at least one of these oldies, but they're still great with certain algos.

As for the AMD/Nvidia question, the following will probably sound like a flamebait or fanboy speak, but that is not my intention.

When opensource GPU miners for Bitcoin first came out in the autumn of 2010, AMD was the obvious choice due to their better integer performance. Some of the current reputation probably stems from this, even though both GPU makers have changed a lot since then.

It is also worth noting that AMD is focused on OpenCL, instead of designing and promoting a proprietary language. Nvidia has CUDA meaning they usually give their best performance using that language, although they also support OpenCL.

The third, possibly irrelevant point is that AMD supports open source driver development, by releasing hardware specs for developers of Linux, Xorg and the like. This is not immediately important, because at the moment you need the closed-source drivers to get the best OpenCL performance. However, some people care about these things a lot. Chances are that after 5-10 years the opensource driver is the only way to use a GPU you buy today -- it's happened before.

This also ties in with the fact how AMD prefers an open standard language rather than a proprietary one. So if you think long term and care about open source / open standards, the choice is obvious.

(As for the fanboy section, AMD is the little guy that could. They developed the 64-bit extensions to x86, for example. This is somewhat relevant to a potential rant concerning 32-bit releases, but not now )

[goofy73]

Please tell me how often i will found block if my speed ~18mhash

[dga]

I don't think there is a minimum, you can mine with pretty much anything, just depends on how much hash you want to have.

My HD 5870 is getting around 550 khash/s. I've been trying to sell at least one of these oldies, but they're still great with certain algos.

As for the AMD/Nvidia question, the following will probably sound like a flamebait or fanboy speak, but that is not my intention.

When opensource GPU miners for Bitcoin first came out in the autumn of 2010, AMD was the obvious choice due to their better integer performance. Some of the current reputation probably stems from this, even though both GPU makers have changed a lot since then.

It is also worth noting that AMD is focused on OpenCL, instead of designing and promoting a proprietary language. Nvidia has CUDA meaning they usually give their best performance using that language, although they also support OpenCL.

The third, possibly irrelevant point is that AMD supports open source driver development, by releasing hardware specs for developers of Linux, Xorg and the like. This is not immediately important, because at the moment you need the closed-source drivers to get the best OpenCL performance. However, some people care about these things a lot. Chances are that after 5-10 years the opensource driver is the only way to use a GPU you buy today -- it's happened before.

This also ties in with the fact how AMD prefers an open standard language rather than a proprietary one. So if you think long term and care about open source / open standards, the choice is obvious.

(As for the fanboy section, AMD is the little guy that could. They developed the 64-bit extensions to x86, for example. This is somewhat relevant to a potential rant concerning 32-bit releases, but not now )

At the risk of adding facts:

- Nvidia supports OpenCL as well as cuda.  The Boolberry miner runs on both AMD and nvidia cards -- which is pretty awesome, all things considered.
 - With the Maxwell architecture (750ti), Nvidia changed the architectural issues that were causing most mining algorithms to be slow (slow shift/rotate instructions).
 - The 750ti is the most energy-efficient GPU mining platform out there.  Period.  But it has a huge drawback of density, and it's not the best choice in hashes-per-second per dollar.

None of that addresses the philosophical points.  But it's worth throwing into the cost equation.  It depends a lot on your electricity costs and whether you want to use risers, how much balance you want between CPU and GPU, etc.

I went for a funky design centered entirely around mining BBR and XMR -- 750tis and i7-4790 CPUs.  The rigs were painfully expensive, but it was a nice choice when I made it that's paid off well.  The same choice might be a very bad idea today now that the profitability of both BBR and XMR is much lower than it was a month or two ago.  But power is expensive, and the ccminer crew generally does a nice job of providing toys to use on them.

[antonio8]

Kinda weird.

I have finally got all 3 of my cards up and running (280X, 270X and 270) for the last 2 and a half days but haven't found a block. Before I was only running the 280X and was finding a block a day. My speed before with the 280x was about 910,000 now it is 2,096,277.

[kingscrown]

Kinda weird.

I have finally got all 3 of my cards up and running (280X, 270X and 270) for the last 2 and a half days but haven't found a block. Before I was only running the 280X and was finding a block a day. My speed before with the 280x was about 910,000 now it is 2,096,277.

cant fidn block either. there must be GPU miner with stratum already

[alani123]

The coin just went up by 22.6% on BITTREX... Quite impressive how fast this happened. Wouldn't this be a goot time to buy to catch the next uptrend early?

[wenjiannin]

The coin just went up by 22.6% on BITTREX... Quite impressive how fast this happened. Wouldn't this be a goot time to buy to catch the next uptrend early?

lets go to buy somethings.

[teknohog]

At the risk of adding facts:

I think open source is a fact. It's just that I like to highlight different facts

- Nvidia supports OpenCL as well as cuda.  The Boolberry miner runs on both AMD and nvidia cards -- which is pretty awesome, all things considered.
 - With the Maxwell architecture (750ti), Nvidia changed the architectural issues that were causing most mining algorithms to be slow (slow shift/rotate instructions).
 - The 750ti is the most energy-efficient GPU mining platform out there.  Period.  But it has a huge drawback of density, and it's not the best choice in hashes-per-second per dollar.

Good points, this is partly why I started with a rather historical note on this debate, I don't know current hardware that well.

In fact, one of my other interests with GPUs is the search for Mersenne primes, and I know Nvidia shines in that application. It's just that I'd never buy computer hardware for a single purpose, especially given the open source stance...

None of that addresses the philosophical points.  But it's worth throwing into the cost equation.  It depends a lot on your electricity costs and whether you want to use risers, how much balance you want between CPU and GPU, etc.

I went for a funky design centered entirely around mining BBR and XMR -- 750tis and i7-4790 CPUs.  The rigs were painfully expensive, but it was a nice choice when I made it that's paid off well.  The same choice might be a very bad idea today now that the profitability of both BBR and XMR is much lower than it was a month or two ago.  But power is expensive, and the ccminer crew generally does a nice job of providing toys to use on them.

..but if you can afford it, good or you

BTW, my next major hardware purchase will likely be a Kaveri APU -- I basically need a new CPU/motherboard, but I'm also intrigued by the shared L3 cache between CPU and GPU. It should be great for GPU applications that need a large, fast cache...

[booletic]

Register your alias with us, for free.
We have registered 12 aliases so far.

[crypto_zoidberg]

Hi please help. When i try to start the new cpuminer, it was crashed. Minerd.exe stopped working. But the old cpuminer is works perfectly.
In the run.bat:

Code:

minerd.exe -a wildkeccak -o stratum+tcp://bbr.farm:7777 -u 1H7XL63Jqf9b1hg9cPxxWM2xEXpyV3c3KbX8rSXhjBxvBihp6vWHYHY9Af4Xj7BEWF2XvcoLZvA9hiDNm4sUKzmSRbandTL -p X -P -D -t 2 -k http://bbr.farm/download/scratchpad.bin

(Sorry for my bad english)

is it crushed right after start ? or it work some time and crush later?

[Kaleran]

Hi please help. When i try to start the new cpuminer, it was crashed. Minerd.exe stopped working. But the old cpuminer is works perfectly.
In the run.bat:

Code:

minerd.exe -a wildkeccak -o stratum+tcp://bbr.farm:7777 -u 1H7XL63Jqf9b1hg9cPxxWM2xEXpyV3c3KbX8rSXhjBxvBihp6vWHYHY9Af4Xj7BEWF2XvcoLZvA9hiDNm4sUKzmSRbandTL -p X -P -D -t 2 -k http://bbr.farm/download/scratchpad.bin

(Sorry for my bad english)

is it crushed right after start ? or it work some time and crush later?

stopped working right after start

[booletic]

Hi please help. When i try to start the new cpuminer, it was crashed. Minerd.exe stopped working. But the old cpuminer is works perfectly.
In the run.bat:

Code:

minerd.exe -a wildkeccak -o stratum+tcp://bbr.farm:7777 -u 1H7XL63Jqf9b1hg9cPxxWM2xEXpyV3c3KbX8rSXhjBxvBihp6vWHYHY9Af4Xj7BEWF2XvcoLZvA9hiDNm4sUKzmSRbandTL -p X -P -D -t 2 -k http://bbr.farm/download/scratchpad.bin

(Sorry for my bad english)

is it crushed right after start ? or it work some time and crush later?

stopped working right after start

try using this:
http://bbr.farm/download/cpuminer-multi.zip

[Kaleran]

Hi please help. When i try to start the new cpuminer, it was crashed. Minerd.exe stopped working. But the old cpuminer is works perfectly.
In the run.bat:

Code:

minerd.exe -a wildkeccak -o stratum+tcp://bbr.farm:7777 -u 1H7XL63Jqf9b1hg9cPxxWM2xEXpyV3c3KbX8rSXhjBxvBihp6vWHYHY9Af4Xj7BEWF2XvcoLZvA9hiDNm4sUKzmSRbandTL -p X -P -D -t 2 -k http://bbr.farm/download/scratchpad.bin

(Sorry for my bad english)

is it crushed right after start ? or it work some time and crush later?

stopped working right after start

try using this:
http://bbr.farm/download/cpuminer-multi.zip

Same crash
https://i.imgur.com/4TW7HnM.jpg

[otila]

Same crash
https://i.imgur.com/4TW7HnM.jpg

No error is shown, but if the executable uses AVX2 instructions and your CPU does not support them, saner operating systems would say "Illegal instruction" or something like that.
You could compile minerd.exe by yourself on the machine that runs the executable, or if someone bothers, add runtime check for CPU features (SSE2, AVX2).