[ANN] sgminer v5 - optimized X11/X13/NeoScrypt/Lyra2RE/etc. kernel-switch miner

[badman74]

OK I got it running. What I had to do was cherry pick 3 commits to bring develop branch up to even with v5_0 branch. I was having the same segfault with the sgminer-dev/sgminer:develop as with your badman74/sgminer:develop branch.

The commits I cherry picked were:

82b5320 - https://github.com/badman74/sgminer/commit/82b5320f36913f3c330633021a4800ce89c4ccc2#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

dbe0263 - https://github.com/badman74/sgminer/commit/dbe0263c2d9d12d2595d2aece69d1d1d5d22ed5e#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

3ddffaa - https://github.com/badman74/sgminer/commit/3ddffaa915add904d0bfedd25b2b5383cff9035f#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

I don't really know how to merge those commits back over into the develop branches of your repo or the sgminer-dev repo on github and I don't want to mess anything up so if you can check that out, let me know.

So far, without any additional config changes over my v5_0 binaries I am seeing 2-4% increase in hash rates.

Would you mind summarizing the new config options I should be trying out? and which values you think are best? (my cards are 7950s and R9 270 non-x)

ok those commits are merged to my develop branch
also fixed sifcoin and groestlcoin
i think that was all of the ones i broke....

Code:

"hamsi-expand-big" : "7", 
"hamsi-short" : true,
"blake-compact" : true,
"keccak-unroll" : "8",
"luffa-parallel" : true,

are the speedups for 290(x) my older cards need all of them set to false or 0
each combination should build a different bin if it will make a change so just try different things

Do I set in the main settings? or in the pool? or profile? or ...?

in the main settings
unfortunately you can not set them per pool, per algo or per card at this time

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[bullus]

OK I got it running. What I had to do was cherry pick 3 commits to bring develop branch up to even with v5_0 branch. I was having the same segfault with the sgminer-dev/sgminer:develop as with your badman74/sgminer:develop branch.

The commits I cherry picked were:

82b5320 - https://github.com/badman74/sgminer/commit/82b5320f36913f3c330633021a4800ce89c4ccc2#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

dbe0263 - https://github.com/badman74/sgminer/commit/dbe0263c2d9d12d2595d2aece69d1d1d5d22ed5e#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

3ddffaa - https://github.com/badman74/sgminer/commit/3ddffaa915add904d0bfedd25b2b5383cff9035f#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

I don't really know how to merge those commits back over into the develop branches of your repo or the sgminer-dev repo on github and I don't want to mess anything up so if you can check that out, let me know.

So far, without any additional config changes over my v5_0 binaries I am seeing 2-4% increase in hash rates.

Would you mind summarizing the new config options I should be trying out? and which values you think are best? (my cards are 7950s and R9 270 non-x)

ok those commits are merged to my develop branch
also fixed sifcoin and groestlcoin
i think that was all of the ones i broke....

Code:

"hamsi-expand-big" : "7", 
"hamsi-short" : true,
"blake-compact" : true,
"keccak-unroll" : "8",
"luffa-parallel" : true,

are the speedups for 290(x) my older cards need all of them set to false or 0
each combination should build a different bin if it will make a change so just try different things

With the new develop branch I can't use my old bins for the 7950's because of the keccak-unroll, so not upgrade it since the keccak was in.

[badman74]

OK I got it running. What I had to do was cherry pick 3 commits to bring develop branch up to even with v5_0 branch. I was having the same segfault with the sgminer-dev/sgminer:develop as with your badman74/sgminer:develop branch.

The commits I cherry picked were:

82b5320 - https://github.com/badman74/sgminer/commit/82b5320f36913f3c330633021a4800ce89c4ccc2#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

dbe0263 - https://github.com/badman74/sgminer/commit/dbe0263c2d9d12d2595d2aece69d1d1d5d22ed5e#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

3ddffaa - https://github.com/badman74/sgminer/commit/3ddffaa915add904d0bfedd25b2b5383cff9035f#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

I don't really know how to merge those commits back over into the develop branches of your repo or the sgminer-dev repo on github and I don't want to mess anything up so if you can check that out, let me know.

So far, without any additional config changes over my v5_0 binaries I am seeing 2-4% increase in hash rates.

Would you mind summarizing the new config options I should be trying out? and which values you think are best? (my cards are 7950s and R9 270 non-x)

ok those commits are merged to my develop branch
also fixed sifcoin and groestlcoin
i think that was all of the ones i broke....

Code:

"hamsi-expand-big" : "7", 
"hamsi-short" : true,
"blake-compact" : true,
"keccak-unroll" : "8",
"luffa-parallel" : true,

are the speedups for 290(x) my older cards need all of them set to false or 0
each combination should build a different bin if it will make a change so just try different things

With the new develop branch I can't use my old bins for the 7950's because of the keccak-unroll, so not upgrade it since the keccak was in.

have you tried using my develop branch (if you build yourself) or my mod binary to build new bins and see if you can get the same or better hashes?

[WBF1]

I wont keep quoting the above but badman's develop branch is working well for me now with 4-5% speedups over the v5_0 branch.

@bullus I'm also running 7950s. What are you settings and hashrates? I'm currently pulling 2424-2435 khs per card @ 1025 engine / 1250 mem on x15 using:

"hamsi-expand-big" : "7",
"hamsi-short" : true,
"blake-compact" : true,
"keccak-unroll" : "8",
"luffa-parallel" : true,

Not sure if these are the right settings for this card or not. It's about 5.2% faster than the v5_0 branch, but there might be room for optimization. I'll probably fiddle around with it throughout the week.

[bullus]

I wont keep quoting the above but badman's develop branch is working well for me now with 4-5% speedups over the v5_0 branch.

@bullus I'm also running 7950s. What are you settings and hashrates? I'm currently pulling 2424-2435 khs per card @ 1025 engine / 1250 mem on x15 using:

"hamsi-expand-big" : "7",
"hamsi-short" : true,
"blake-compact" : true,
"keccak-unroll" : "8",
"luffa-parallel" : true,

Not sure if these are the right settings for this card or not. It's about 5.2% faster than the v5_0 branch, but there might be room for optimization. I'll probably fiddle around with it throughout the week.

I get about 2500kh/s with 1040/1500 with the older sgminer, but using different bins from different builds and keep the highest bins.
profiles.conf

Code:

{ 
"profiles" : [
	{
		"name" : "x11",
		"algorithm" : "darkcoin-mod",
		"xintensity" : "64",
                "hamsi-expand-big" : "4",
		"gpu-threads" : "2",
		"gpu-powertune" : "8",
		"worksize": "256"
	},
	{
		"name" : "x13",
		"algorithm" : "marucoin-mod",
		"xintensity" : "39",
		"gpu-threads" : "2",
		"gpu-powertune" : "8",
		"worksize": "64"
	},
	{
		"name" : "x15",
		"algorithm" : "bitblock",
		"xintensity" : "39",
                "hamsi-expand-big" : "4",
		"gpu-threads" : "2",
		"gpu-powertune" : "8",
		"worksize": "64"
	},
	{
		"name" : "nist5",
		"algorithm" : "talkcoin-mod",
		"intensity" : "18",
                "hamsi-expand-big" : "1",
		"gpu-threads" : "2",
		"gpu-powertune" : "8",
		"worksize": "64"
	}	
],
"default-profile": "nist5",
"hamsi-expand-big" : "4",
"gpu-fan" : "70-80",
"gpu-engine" : "1040",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.088",
"failover-only" : true,
"shaders" : "1792",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"expiry" : "1",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"temp-hysteresis" : "2",
"shares" : "0",
"no-submit-stale" : false,
"no-restart" : true,
"failover-switch-delay" : "30",
"show-coindiff" : true,
"remove-disabled" : true,
"extranonce-subscription" : true
}

[badman74]

I wont keep quoting the above but badman's develop branch is working well for me now with 4-5% speedups over the v5_0 branch.

@bullus I'm also running 7950s. What are you settings and hashrates? I'm currently pulling 2424-2435 khs per card @ 1025 engine / 1250 mem on x15 using:

"hamsi-expand-big" : "7",
"hamsi-short" : true,
"blake-compact" : true,
"keccak-unroll" : "8",
"luffa-parallel" : true,

Not sure if these are the right settings for this card or not. It's about 5.2% faster than the v5_0 branch, but there might be room for optimization. I'll probably fiddle around with it throughout the week.

the settings i know of that work for the non true/false ones are

"hamsi-expand-big" 1/4/7
"keccak-unroll"  0/1/2/4/6/8/12

after playing with mine a while i have left keccak-unroll at 12. for my 7750's it works the best and on my 290(x)'s it is a tiny bit less hashes but way more stable
on x11
7750's getting 1mh/s
290's getting 5.2mh/s
290x's getting 6.18mh/s

[mfqrs3]

Has anyone find a way to downclock cards ( without Bios mods ) with 14.6 or newer drivers ? I found it broken and not working, voltage adjustments works fine. Some algos don't benefit from high mem clocks, and with downclocking you can save power consumption.

[badman74]

Has anyone find a way to downclock cards ( without Bios mods ) with 14.6 or newer drivers ? I found it broken and not working, voltage adjustments works fine. Some algos don't benefit from high mem clocks, and with downclocking you can save power consumption.

you can do it with msi afterburner but i dont think it is currently possible to get sgminer to do it itself

[mfqrs3]

Has anyone find a way to downclock cards ( without Bios mods ) with 14.6 or newer drivers ? I found it broken and not working, voltage adjustments works fine. Some algos don't benefit from high mem clocks, and with downclocking you can save power consumption.

you can do it with msi afterburner but i dont think it is currently possible to get sgminer to do it itself

Nope, afterburner or trixx don't work, as soon as you run sgminer or other mining software it goes to default clock values. With 14.4 and lower drivers it all works fine.

[badman74]

Has anyone find a way to downclock cards ( without Bios mods ) with 14.6 or newer drivers ? I found it broken and not working, voltage adjustments works fine. Some algos don't benefit from high mem clocks, and with downclocking you can save power consumption.

you can do it with msi afterburner but i dont think it is currently possible to get sgminer to do it itself

Nope, afterburner or trixx don't work, as soon as you run sgminer or other mining software it goes to default clock values. With 14.4 and lower drivers it all works fine.

remove all references to your clocks from your config first
set clocks with afterburner/trixx
run sgminer
worked for me
not sure really why it wont go lower than default normally

[platinum4]

I've been able to set clocks in sgminer with profiles.conf above the stock clocks; have not tried it below the stock value however.

[mfqrs3]

Setting clocks above def. works fine, underclocking doesn't work. I read it's a catalyst problem...it seems no one has a solution

[badman74]

Setting clocks above def. works fine, underclocking doesn't work. I read it's a catalyst problem...it seems no one has a solution

actually it seems to work fine for me.... even on my pimp miners
are you using one of my builds?
if you are building yourself try getting adl_sdk 7

[mfqrs3]

Yes, I'm using your builds. It's somehow related to driver+software combination, because with older drivers it's working fine. I have Sapphire R9 280x, Powercolor 280x and Gigabyte/Xfx 290 with same problem, but with His R9 270 it's working... all rigs with same latest beta drivers 14.7 RC ( Asrock H81, 6Gpu's per board )

[badman74]

Yes, I'm using your builds. It's somehow related to driver+software combination, because with older drivers it's working fine. I have Sapphire R9 280x, Powercolor 280x and Gigabyte/Xfx 290 with same problem, but with His R9 270 it's working... all rigs with same latest beta drivers 14.7 RC ( Asrock H81, 6Gpu's per board )

i posted an updated build today (fixed a few algo's i previously broke plus added some fixes from v5_0 branch)
if nothing else you will want to get this build to fix some of the lesser used algo's, also the v5_0 fixes may help (don't remember what they fixed at the moment)

[lbr]

Setting clocks above def. works fine, underclocking doesn't work. I read it's a catalyst problem...it seems no one has a solution

with "unofficial oc mode without with pp support" selected in AfterBurner, miner is able to under/over clock for me.

[MysteryX]

I can't get scrypt-n working, all of the other algos switch flawlessly and nice hashrates, but i get constant HW errors and rejected shares with scrypt-n, and sometimes it just crashes the whole pc.

I'm using 14.6 b2 drivers.

[chadwickx16]

I can't get scrypt-n working, all of the other algos switch flawlessly and nice hashrates, but i get constant HW errors and rejected shares with scrypt-n, and sometimes it just crashes the whole pc.

I'm using 14.6 b2 drivers.

Your cards may be overclocked too high.

[MysteryX]

I can't get scrypt-n working, all of the other algos switch flawlessly and nice hashrates, but i get constant HW errors and rejected shares with scrypt-n, and sometimes it just crashes the whole pc.

I'm using 14.6 b2 drivers.

Your cards may be overclocked too high.

They're at stock right now, I can get the miner running but i'm getting 100% rejected shares above target. I'm guessing it really doesn't like the zuikkis kernel.

[digitalindustry]

Hey guys Bitfreak woudl love if you guys created a GPU AMD miner for this

7 algo Hash

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=713538.0

It relates to a very innovative crypto that has a "Mini" block-chain , it's quite literally a word first.


the 7 algos are outlined here : http://cryptonite.info/wiki/index.php?title=M7_PoW

The magnificent 7:

    SHA-256
    SHA-512
    Keccak
    RIPEMD
    HAVAL
    Tiger
    Whirlpool

The M7 PoW algorithm can be generalized as the following, where h = header:

SHA-256(SHA-256(h)*SHA-512(h)*Keccak(h)*Ripemd(h)*Haval(h)*Tiger(h)*Whirlpool(h))