Claymore's CryptoNote AMD GPU Miner v11.3

[dga]

Bullshit - I talked to dga. What's your beef with me, seriously? If you were just trolling, I doubt you would put this much effort into it.

It does surprise me that you're pissed I released it, though, as I didn't want to. Even more odd that dga is your hero, when he never released his, the guy he sold it to did.

I believe the latter statement ("the guy he sold it to ... released it") to be false, as I noted above.

The former is quite true that I never released it;  there are few heroes in this business.  I developed a fast, private miner for XMR and used for financial gain.  I didn't release it, and planned to keep it private until I'd made some money from it.  As some folks may know, I've been exploring a bunch of different models for how to get paid for developing miners and cryptocurrency code, ranging from:
  * Give it away and ask for donations (this doesn't work at all) -- scrypt for nvidia.
  * Bounties (protoshares gpu) -- this works ok, but doesn't really pay a living wage for the development time.
  * Developer fee (mandatory and then optional / open source after a week or two, for Riecoin) -- less than the bounty approach
  * Mine early to get some holdings and then try to help the coin by contributing code to it (Boolberry)
  * Mine privately for a month before giving it away (the most successful approach yet) (Monero)
    (I never got my month.  *grin*)

It's a debate worth having about how to fund ongoing development of good code, and it's clear from the response to Claymore's fee that there are very strong feelings about it on all sides.

yvg1900 may have the best model overall (a gentle dev fee in a closed source context), but I still think it's worth figuring out good paths that result in the development of quality open source software.

Good programmers are really expensive.

I think cbuchner1 actually has it right, though:  Future coin developers should partner with a miner developer or two to release their coins with fast CPU and GPU miners publicly available as open source.  It'll reduce (but not eliminate) all of this crap.  Perhaps fund it with a share of a 1% dev fee built into the coin itself, as Boolberry incorporated, so that the devs have an incentive to keep up the code.

I didn't want to release it. Remember the guy? Well, that psychopath said he was going to release it without crediting either of us. He also said you worked for him - but nothing he says can be trusted, I suppose.

I have no idea who you're talking about, actually.  As I said - I don't know the path my code took on its way to get to you.  If you want to PM me with who gave it to you, I'll hold it in confidence;  I'm kind of curious, but not in an important way.

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[followtheboss]

Can't running it in background without affecting the users,even with option "-li 1" 。It wound be nice if you can add a option like "-I" in sgminer

+1

An -I option that change usage of GPU mining that would be great can you add it please ??

Cheers

[Strannik-74]

Speed: 1885 h/s, TotalHashes: 73950K, DevHashes: 3696K Mining time: 10:53
07/14/14-06:14:39 - SHARE FOUND (target 16000) - (GPU 3 of 4)
07/14/14-06:14:40 - SHARE FOUND (target 16000) - (GPU 0 of 4)
07/14/14-06:14:42 - SHARE FOUND (target 16000) - (GPU 3 of 4)
07/14/14-06:14:58 - SHARE FOUND (target 16000) - (GPU 3 of 4)
07/14/14-06:15:01 - New job received from xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx
Speed: 1885 h/s, TotalHashes: 73998K, DevHashes: 3699K Mining time: 10:54 -- 4x270X Sapphire Dual X, Hynix mem, 1175/1500/1093mV - Win 8.1, 14.6 rc2, Claymore v 4.2
07/14/14-06:15:06 - SHARE FOUND (target 32000) - (GPU 0 of 4)
07/14/14-06:15:08 - SHARE FOUND (target 32000) - (GPU 3 of 4)
07/14/14-06:15:09 - SHARE FOUND (target 32000) - (GPU 2 of 4)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Speed: 1712 h/s, TotalHashes: 104382K, DevHashes: 5218K Mining time: 16:56
07/14/14-08:18:13 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 3 of 5)
DevFee: 07/14/14-08:18:22 - SHARE FOUND (target 9843) - (GPU 2 of 5)
DevFee: 07/14/14-08:19:15 - SHARE FOUND (target 6932) - (GPU 1 of 5)
DevFee: 07/14/14-08:19:37 - SHARE FOUND (target 13331) - (GPU 0 of 5)
07/14/14-08:19:38 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 3 of 5)
07/14/14-08:19:43 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 4 of 5)
07/14/14-08:19:54 - New job received from xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx
Speed: 1712 h/s, TotalHashes: 104640K, DevHashes: 5231K Mining time: 16:58 -- -- 5x270X Gigabyte, Elpida mem, 1175/1500/1093mV - Win 8.1, 14.6 rc2, Claymore v 4.2
07/14/14-08:20:38 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 1 of 5)
07/14/14-08:20:54 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 3 of 5)
07/14/14-08:20:56 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 2 of 5)

- 510h/s - 280X Sams mem   (MSI Gaming)
- 490h/s - 7950 Hynix mem   (Gigabyte WF3)
- 400h/s - 7950 Elpida mem  (Sapphire DUAL-X/VAPOR-X/ASUS DCIIT)
- 471h/s - 270X Hynix mem   (Sapphire DUAL-X OC)
- 340h/s - 270X Elpida mem  (Powercolor Turbo-DUO/Gigabyte WF3)

Why Hynix gives 40% more?

[Starlightbreaker]

Speed: 1885 h/s, TotalHashes: 73950K, DevHashes: 3696K Mining time: 10:53
07/14/14-06:14:39 - SHARE FOUND (target 16000) - (GPU 3 of 4)
07/14/14-06:14:40 - SHARE FOUND (target 16000) - (GPU 0 of 4)
07/14/14-06:14:42 - SHARE FOUND (target 16000) - (GPU 3 of 4)
07/14/14-06:14:58 - SHARE FOUND (target 16000) - (GPU 3 of 4)
07/14/14-06:15:01 - New job received from xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx
Speed: 1885 h/s, TotalHashes: 73998K, DevHashes: 3699K Mining time: 10:54 -- 4x270X Sapphire Dual X, Hynix mem, 1175/1500/1093mV - Win 8.1, 14.6 rc2, Claymore v 4.2
07/14/14-06:15:06 - SHARE FOUND (target 32000) - (GPU 0 of 4)
07/14/14-06:15:08 - SHARE FOUND (target 32000) - (GPU 3 of 4)
07/14/14-06:15:09 - SHARE FOUND (target 32000) - (GPU 2 of 4)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Speed: 1712 h/s, TotalHashes: 104382K, DevHashes: 5218K Mining time: 16:56
07/14/14-08:18:13 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 3 of 5)
DevFee: 07/14/14-08:18:22 - SHARE FOUND (target 9843) - (GPU 2 of 5)
DevFee: 07/14/14-08:19:15 - SHARE FOUND (target 6932) - (GPU 1 of 5)
DevFee: 07/14/14-08:19:37 - SHARE FOUND (target 13331) - (GPU 0 of 5)
07/14/14-08:19:38 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 3 of 5)
07/14/14-08:19:43 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 4 of 5)
07/14/14-08:19:54 - New job received from xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx
Speed: 1712 h/s, TotalHashes: 104640K, DevHashes: 5231K Mining time: 16:58 -- -- 5x270X Gigabyte, Elpida mem, 1175/1500/1093mV - Win 8.1, 14.6 rc2, Claymore v 4.2
07/14/14-08:20:38 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 1 of 5)
07/14/14-08:20:54 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 3 of 5)
07/14/14-08:20:56 - SHARE FOUND (target 100001) - (GPU 2 of 5)

- 510h/s - 280X Sams mem   (MSI Gaming)
- 490h/s - 7950 Hynix mem   (Gigabyte WF3)
- 400h/s - 7950 Elpida mem  (Sapphire DUAL-X/VAPOR-X/ASUS DCIIT)
- 471h/s - 270X Hynix mem   (Sapphire DUAL-X OC)
- 340h/s - 270X Elpida mem  (Powercolor Turbo-DUO/Gigabyte WF3)

Why Hynix gives 40% more?

It's long been known that Elpida sucks for mining - it was first shown with the 290 and 290X cards when mining LTC. I believe it has something to do with the timings.

Even stilt's custom bios doesn't help with cryptonote.

it helps to a certain degree on scrypt.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

[xaitienle]

If we compare Monero mining to X11 mining , which one requires more energy?
For example my rig takes 1200W when mining scrypt 1500 W when mining X11 900W Im using 5 r290

X11 is slighlty better at conserving energy compared to cryptonight (monero).  iirc... X11 is about 55% of scrypt energy consumption while cryptonight is about 40%.  Although... "optimizations" have frequenlty meant better hashes at detriment of power consumption.

edit: right now... it's hard to mine x11 for better profit than cryptonight... but that's always changing.

I total don't agree with you. At my wall comparision, CN take around 85% of Scrypt power consumption

[shimlbit]

evilcoin is new cryptonight coin

but the wallet addy isnt supported..can u add this?

[BitcoinForumator]

I've started GPU mining Monero today...

is it normal that computer freezes constantly (for like a split second up to a second) when mining? I get around 300h/s with 7970

and running with the "-li 1" which is supposed the command that doesn't freeze Windows

also, temp is hovering around 64, GPU Usage 98-99%

What command should I use to lower the GPU usage?

edit: added "-a 2" command, getting half the hashes but still freezing noticably.


Is this miner just not very optimized?

[slavo]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=693540.0

could you update your miner to accept oec addresses ?

[svetliopi44]

Wait to make lots of coins and then it will update it.
Another doomed coin

[RUNNY]

Please add evilcoin

[kyndik]

Please add OEC coin, or allow to use ANY CN wallet address with nofee=1 parameter (imho it's fair).

[cyberspacemonkey]

Please add OEC coin, or allow to use ANY CN wallet address with nofee=1 parameter (imho it's fair).

I second that, PLEASE ADD ONEEVILCOIN!

[Grifftech2k4]

Anyway this will work with Radeon HD 5850 cards?

[daeminium]

no OneEvilCoin support?

[Claymore]

v5.1 is available:

- Added Dashcoin, OEC, MCN and ORION support.

[ozzy1926]

v5.1 is available:

- Added Dashcoin, OEC, MCN and ORION support.

any speed improvements? because v4.0 is still the fastest

[Kablam]

linux miner comming soon?

[kyndik]

v5.1 is available:

- Added Dashcoin, OEC, MCN and ORION support.

Pls, udpate CPU miner

[Claymore]

linux miner comming soon?

I hope to have it soon, though it will take some more time, person who ports it to Linux decided not to do it after checking sources and now I have to find someone else.

[MacHead2006]

And PIMP devs collect donations to add cryptonight gpu support.

Check #9 at http://www.getpimp.org/features.html