[BBR] Boolberry GPU Miner Discussion - AMD & Nvidia - OpenCL & CUDA

[isamamin]

Guys, any idea about R9 290 hash rate ?
Thanks

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[enricosofie]

Hi,

I get an error when trying to mine.
What am I doing wrong?
GPU is a nvidia geforce 720M

CL_INVALID_COMMAND_QUEUE

regards,
Enricosofie

[Blazin]

I apologize in advance for the long post.

Short version for the lazy:

At stock clocks, the RX 470 and RX 480 both get hash rates close to 1450 kh/s when mining Boolberry. (If they have slighly OC'd 2000 mhz memory.) You might be able to squeeze out another 300 kh/s with a modded BIOS, however.

Long version:

The RX 480, even with a modded BIOS, does not seem to perform better than an RX 470. According to http://1stminingrig.com/how-to-mine-boolberry-bbr-with-amd-nvidia-gpu/, an RX 470 can do 1450 kh/s easily. Even with the significantly higher core clock speed (1338mhz), my factory OC'd XFX RX 480 pulls almost exactly 1450kh/s at stock speeds. They both pull 1450kh/s at their stock speeds and they both have slightly higher memory clocks of 2000mhz. Only overclocking the memory seems to have any real effect. That probably isn't just a coincidence. It looks like memory is a more serious bottleneck for Boolberry mining than it is for other coins.

The only way to get any more performance is to use a modified BIOS like mine. My modded BIOS with faster memory timings and a 2150mhz memory clock speed gives me another 300 kh/s or so on my RX 480. I wouldn't be surprised if an RX 470 could get very similar performance to my card if you used the same memory timings and clocks. Just don't blame me if you try this and your RX 470 turns into a paperweight!  

Here's my modded bios: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l8mvq99rc17g7ne/xfx-rx-480-8gb-boolberry.rom?dl=0 Just keep in mind that it's made for the specific model of the card I'm using (RX-480P8DBA6). Flashing it on another one could be... bad. I'm sure you could use the Polaris BIOS editor to copy the memory timings, clocks, and voltages from this BIOS over to one from another model of the RX 480 if you wanted. It's more or less standard procedure for a modified RX 480 BIOS.

Here are some screenshots of the miner running on my RX 480:

Stock bios: 1450 kh/s
https://i.imgur.com/OYuxzRr.png

Modded bios: 1750 kh/s
https://i.imgur.com/gbo87TL.png

[sfaniks]

Can some body help me?
Pool poolto.be is a scam project?
From 03/06/2017 - 228 BBR in Pending Balance
I wrote to admin@poolto.be and there is no answer about...
http://cdn1.savepice.ru/uploads/2017/6/7/6116a32a31f0f554e473b8a5c878d716-full.jpg

[cryptonityan]

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to mine on simpleminingOS with the following on claymore-eth-v9.5 but it does not work.

-a -o stratum+tcp://bbr.mbkpool.info:7777 -u ADDRESSXXXXXX -p x

can someone help me please? Thank you

[mis255]

MBK,

mbkpool.info is not paying out (last payout @ 11/5/2017 11:29:29am) - I've had a pending balance for days.  Pool may need maintenance.

Thank you.

[clintar2]

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to mine on simpleminingOS with the following on claymore-eth-v9.5 but it does not work.

-a -o stratum+tcp://bbr.mbkpool.info:7777 -u ADDRESSXXXXXX -p x

can someone help me please? Thank you

you can update try this

Code:

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/clintar/6a53b1e61bcc2a48913f2b032a50ebcf/raw/d0c9726adc44a11f5ad7b2e450eacbcb21a01d76/update-ccminer.sh
chmod +x update-ccminer.sh
sudo ./update-ccminer.sh

if you trust me

[Edman007]

minerd -a wildkeccak_ocl -o stratum+tcp://bbr.suprnova.cc:7777 -u Worker.workername -p x   -d 0,1  -i 18  -l scratchpad.bin -k http://bbr.suprnova.cc/scratchpad.bin
pause

Works for me with 2 cards its the - d 0,1,2,3 for use more cards

Ok cool - is there a windows binary for minerd?

You have to download the scratchpad.bin from the pool your mine !

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Зapaнee cпacибo

[tbearhere]

http://bbr.mbkpool.info/#
Why is only half to 10% of my hash showing at the pool? I have my bat file done correctly too.

[ramcrypto]

what is hash rate for wild keccak on Gtx 1060 3gb Gpu...

[tbearhere]

So with minerd you can't set 2 different intensities for 2 different cards? Am I correct?
ie  -d 0,1  -i 14,19  should give intensity 14 to device 0 and intensity 19 to device 1... but it doesn't?

[tbearhere]

http://mining.blue/#
Congratulations ..the first pool that knows how to set the stats for Nvidia and ccminer.  
Working good now.

[dangphucbte]

i mining error retry after 10 second. Help me, help me!

[MoneroCrusher]

So with minerd you can't set 2 different intensities for 2 different cards? Am I correct?
ie  -d 0,1  -i 14,19  should give intensity 14 to device 0 and intensity 19 to device 1... but it doesn't?

wondering the same, what is the vega hashrate?
can you also split threads like with XMR then apply different intensities to each?

[clintar2]

http://mining.blue/#
Congratulations ..the first pool that knows how to set the stats for Nvidia and ccminer.  
Working good now.

Can you tell me what options you have set in your miner, please?

[tbearhere]

http://mining.blue/#
Congratulations ..the first pool that knows how to set the stats for Nvidia and ccminer.  
Working good now.

Can you tell me what options you have set in your miner, please?

Sure. This is for 2 cards on this computer.. same on my rig...but rig has 6 cards. My other computer has 1 card.

ccminer-x64-2.2.2-cuda7.5.exe -a wildkeccak  -t 2 -l 60x256  -o stratum+tcp://usbbr.mining.blue:8888 -u myaddress -p x --max-log-rate 30  -k http://mining.blue/scratchpad.bin

EDIT: And my high end card rig has a blown mobo. Be back online in a week or 2.

[StevaMan]

So with minerd you can't set 2 different intensities for 2 different cards? Am I correct?
ie  -d 0,1  -i 14,19  should give intensity 14 to device 0 and intensity 19 to device 1... but it doesn't?

wondering the same, what is the vega hashrate?
can you also split threads like with XMR then apply different intensities to each?

mine is 2330 kh/s with minerd.exe  
vega 56 flashed to 64 GPU@1300MHz; MEM@1025MHz...
i think that even power consumption is lower than with cast or stak miners...i can't say for sure how much, because i don't have any instrument to be precise, but in my opinion blower is somewhere at ~2500rpm instead 2800+rpm with other miners and currencies...
today is my first day when it comes to mining boolberry and that's why i'm not such a good informer  

edit: of course i forgot to use gpu-z and he reported lower cooler speed than 2400rpm

[hashappliance]

Open source Boolberry OpenCL miner
https://github.com/mbkuperman/boolberry-opencl.git

Read README.md for details and build instructions.

Windows x64 executables:
https://github.com/mbkuperman/boolberry-opencl/releases/download/v1.0/BoolberryOCL-20140719.zip

2% developer donation (you can change or disable it in the configuration file)

Solo version: boolbd.exe (best performance/reliability)
Pool (JSON RPC) version: simpleminer.exe (please, use solo version if you can!)

Personally, I think it doesn't make any sense to use pools while the block value is about $7. Just give enough time to the solo miner.

Tested on AMD GPUs only!

Expected performance:
6870, R270x - 500-600 khs
6970, R280X - 900-1000 khs

OpenCL code is available under the terms of the GNU Public License version 3.
Author: Mikhail Kuperman (mbk.git@gmail.com)
BBR donation address: 1EmWGnwhydr3S2vRWQbbefh1hgDKgMjdMGe43ZgdPhdARhNBRkUMuD4YzLA2nyYG8tg2HKCCBg4aDam JKypRQWW1Ca2kSV8
BTC donation address: 1Lns6UjL3sw77DJ5z1EKJZy6SnqriqvVGK

MBK:  I've seen new versions of XMR miners that were built on Open CL 2.0 that are getting some pretty good efficiency gains, especially on the new AMD VEGA architecture with HBM2 memory.  I know you have probably moved on to greener pastures, but I wanted to reach out to you and see if you would be willing to look into the current minerd and see if there are some efficiency gains that are achievable with some modifications similar to what CAST-XMR and XMR-STAK have accomplished.  As interest is growing in the BBR community, I think either an open source version with a bounty, or a closed source with a fee would be amenable, as I think there is quite a bit of efficiency that could be achieved.  Thank you in advance.

[alex119]

Hello, guys!

Just discovered the coin for myself. Looks interesting.

The only problem I have right now is inefficient mining. I got 11 (eleven) GPUs in my rig, all of them AMD.
But the miner accepts only 8 of them (and that includes integrated graphics, with 27  Hashes per second). 4 more card just stay idle.

If I try to set minerd option "-d 8" or higher, it responds me with just little help info.
How can I increase the number of GPUs involved in mining?
Or is there a way to use, say, sgminer for minining (seems like it knows nothing about scrathpad files).
Hope to here from you guys soon

[teknohog]

The only problem I have right now is inefficient mining. I got 11 (eleven) GPUs in my rig, all of them AMD.
But the miner accepts only 8 of them (and that includes integrated graphics, with 27  Hashes per second). 4 more card just stay idle.

If I try to set minerd option "-d 8" or higher, it responds me with just little help info.

Using "-d 8" only selects a single GPU, starting with 0 for the first GPU. It looks like there's a hardcoded limit of 8 GPUs since it ignores the 9th one. Indeed, there's a line in gpu.h:

Code:

#define MAX_GPU 8

so you could change this and rebuild the miner.