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

[btc-mike]

Has anyone find a block yet from solo mining? I'm mining with 3.7 Mh/s since the miner was posted here and 0 blocks still at 100% efficiency. Is anyone working on make this work properly with the current pools?

Bitcrea has been finding blocks.

[surfer43]

The remaining 1500 BBR has been sent to mbk.

[SpeedDemon13]

Has anyone find a block yet from solo mining? I'm mining with 3.7 Mh/s since the miner was posted here and 0 blocks still at 100% efficiency. Is anyone working on make this work properly with the current pools?

Bitcrea has been finding blocks.

Is that a pool or a person? Is there a pool that can accept this miner properly?

[btc-mike]

Has anyone find a block yet from solo mining? I'm mining with 3.7 Mh/s since the miner was posted here and 0 blocks still at 100% efficiency. Is anyone working on make this work properly with the current pools?

Bitcrea has been finding blocks.

Is that a pool or a person? Is there a pool that can accept this miner properly?

Bitcrea is a Person.

The GPU miner does not work on pools. Solo only for now. We need to add stratum pool support to the GPU miner code.

[SpeedDemon13]

Has anyone find a block yet from solo mining? I'm mining with 3.7 Mh/s since the miner was posted here and 0 blocks still at 100% efficiency. Is anyone working on make this work properly with the current pools?

Bitcrea has been finding blocks.

Is that a pool or a person? Is there a pool that can accept this miner properly?

Bitcrea is a Person.

The GPU miner does not work on pools. Solo only for now. We need to add stratum pool support to the GPU miner code.

Oh ok

I finally found a block 24 hours ago, but it's not showing up in my wallet. I directed the mining address to my wallet.

Has anyone find a block yet from solo mining? I'm mining with 3.7 Mh/s since the miner was posted here and 0 blocks still at 100% efficiency. Is anyone working on make this work properly with the current pools?

Bitcrea has been finding blocks.

Is that a pool or a person? Is there a pool that can accept this miner properly?

Bitcrea is a Person.

The GPU miner does not work on pools. Solo only for now. We need to add stratum pool support to the GPU miner code.

It's be a LOT easier to just add the GPU miner code to cpuminer instead...

Surprised that no one has not already implemented it yet.....

[clintar]

Has anyone find a block yet from solo mining? I'm mining with 3.7 Mh/s since the miner was posted here and 0 blocks still at 100% efficiency. Is anyone working on make this work properly with the current pools?

Bitcrea has been finding blocks.

Is that a pool or a person? Is there a pool that can accept this miner properly?

Bitcrea is a Person.

The GPU miner does not work on pools. Solo only for now. We need to add stratum pool support to the GPU miner code.

I'm mining to pool with simpleminer.

[SpeedDemon13]

Has anyone find a block yet from solo mining? I'm mining with 3.7 Mh/s since the miner was posted here and 0 blocks still at 100% efficiency. Is anyone working on make this work properly with the current pools?

Bitcrea has been finding blocks.

Is that a pool or a person? Is there a pool that can accept this miner properly?

Bitcrea is a Person.

The GPU miner does not work on pools. Solo only for now. We need to add stratum pool support to the GPU miner code.

I'm mining to pool with simpleminer.

I mined with the simpleminer, but is was hashing at 1/3 of the speed of solo and a lot of rejects on BBR.farm.

[clintar]

I've not been able to get this to work on nvidia. Any tips? Specific cuda version required?

[SpeedDemon13]

I've not been able to get this to work on nvidia. Any tips? Specific cuda version required?

Should be the same setup as AMD. Currently I don't have a Nvidia card to try it out. I just created a bat file to mine with.

[PVmining]

I've not been able to get this to work on nvidia. Any tips? Specific cuda version required?

I did it, on my 860M.

EDIT: Trick is to define some of the variables it tells you to in the opencl cmake file comments.

...and how? please show us the light.
I stranded as you could read here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577267.msg7972653#msg7972653

[mbk]

On Linux build:
I've updated the README.md some time ago but I'll repeat it here

Code:

Set AMDAPPSDKROOT or CUDA_PATH if they have not been set already depending on SDK you installed.

I tested on AMD but it should work with CUDA too because we need only headers and libraries to build.

I've not been able to get this to work on nvidia. Any tips? Specific cuda version required?

I did it, on my 860M.

EDIT: Trick is to define some of the variables it tells you to in the opencl cmake file comments.

...and how? please show us the light.
I stranded as you could read here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577267.msg7972653#msg7972653

[mbk]

Found out your problem. The code had dependencies on OpenCL 1.2. Removed them. Now you should be able to compile it on OpenCL 1.1 and even 1.0.

I've not been able to get this to work on nvidia. Any tips? Specific cuda version required?

I did it, on my 860M.

EDIT: Trick is to define some of the variables it tells you to in the opencl cmake file comments.

...and how? please show us the light.
I stranded as you could read here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=577267.msg7972653#msg7972653

[PVmining]

Found out your problem. The code had dependencies on OpenCL 1.2. Removed them. Now you should be able to compile it on OpenCL 1.1 and even 1.0.

Dear mbk,
   first - thank you for programming the BBR miner and your support.

but - now compiling stops sooner as before.
Could NOT find OpenCL (missing: OPENCL_LIBRARY) (found version "1.1")

Code:

root@kopiemtu:/opt/miners/boolberry-opencl# make
mkdir -p build/release
cd build/release && cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../..
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.8.1
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 4.8.1
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Looking for sys/types.h
-- Looking for sys/types.h - found
-- Looking for stdint.h
-- Looking for stdint.h - found
-- Looking for stddef.h
-- Looking for stddef.h - found
-- Check size of void*
-- Check size of void* - done
-- OpenCL: Searching in custom location
-- Looking for CL_VERSION_1_0
-- Looking for CL_VERSION_1_0 - found
-- Looking for CL_VERSION_1_1
-- Looking for CL_VERSION_1_1 - found
-- Looking for CL_VERSION_1_2
-- Looking for CL_VERSION_1_2 - not found
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message):
  Could NOT find OpenCL (missing: OPENCL_LIBRARY) (found version "1.1")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:315 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  FindOpenCL.cmake:159 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:13 (find_package)


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

[mbk]

OK. Try to set OPENCL_ROOT as you did before. Don't forget to pull last update from github.

Found out your problem. The code had dependencies on OpenCL 1.2. Removed them. Now you should be able to compile it on OpenCL 1.1 and even 1.0.

Dear mbk,
   first - thank you for programming the BBR miner and your support.

but - now compiling stops sooner as before.
and does not find openCL anymore.

Code:

root@kopiemtu:/opt/miners/boolberry-opencl# make
mkdir -p build/release
cd build/release && cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../..
-- OpenCL: Searching for NVIDIA CUDA SDK
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message):
  Could NOT find OpenCL (missing: OPENCL_LIBRARY)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:315 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  FindOpenCL.cmake:159 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:13 (find_package)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
make: *** [cmake-release] Error 1

[PVmining]

OK. Try to set OPENCL_ROOT as you did before. Don't forget to pull last update from github.

I edit my post above... he founds openCL... but it is still missing.
my compiler seems schizophrenic 

[cptfisher]

hi there ... getting only 2200 kh/s with 2 x 6990 ( they are supposed to run like 4 6970 infact i run 4 threads)

is confirmed the 6970 gets 900 - 1000 kh/s ?

[mbk]

I'm sorry. I meant 7xxx series. These are actual results I got myself:

Code:

7950@1100/1500 920khs
280x@1100/1500 970khs
7870@1100/1350 550khs
270x@1100/1500 670khs

hi there ... getting only 2200 kh/s with 2 x 6990 ( they are supposed to run like 4 6970 infact i run 4 threads)

is confirmed the 6970 gets 900 - 1000 kh/s ?

[cptfisher]

ok then you can add to the test matrix 6990 1160 kh/s
6950 540 kh/s

if there is any hardware matrix i would add the results

(note  the results are with the 2 % fee added. dunno if devel makes the hardware hash slower with fees are disabled)

[mbk]

Merged updates from the main branch. Updated executables in the Release section too.
https://github.com/mbkuperman/boolberry-opencl

[mbk]

I've updated Linux build instructions in README.md. I tested both ways - AMD and Nvidia myself on clean Ubuntu 14.04 in Virtualbox and it works flawlessly. Run 'make clean' after you change build options.

OK. Try to set OPENCL_ROOT as you did before. Don't forget to pull last update from github.

I edit my post above... he founds openCL... but it is still missing.
my compiler seems schizophrenic