[ANN][BURST] Burst | Efficient HDD Mining | New 1.2.3 Fork block 92000

[tex81]

... what does "Sender's array of best deadlines" limit mean?...

I think it is a size of array for found deadlines (work-array for "send-share-to-pool" thread)

[mmmaybe]

Both faucets are empty. How about if we donate a few coins each to fill them up a bit...? Will give a better impression and it's important for new users that they work.

http://burstfaucet.com
http://faucet.burstcoin.info

The problem is they seem to be getting drained by the same addresses, so some sort of rate limiting needs to be done. Some examples:
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I know, in a couple days it will block by ip

Nice

[crowetic]

If I have 40 TB storage for burst mining which of the following is better (of course in terms of pool mining not solo) ?

I plot all the available space to same account

 or

I divide the space between 2 accounts (20 TB each).

Since I want to test some pools & may be want to open one myself in near future I want to keep 2 different accounts so that I don't need to change the reward assignment for the whole available space every now & then while testing. The question is, does it impact the possibility of getting a block while using the same resources (40 TB) but divided between 2 different burst account or it just generates the same number of coins giving the same equation of possibility ?

Throw all your power at us. mine.burstcoin.info

[crazyearner]

If I have 40 TB storage for burst mining which of the following is better (of course in terms of pool mining not solo) ?

I plot all the available space to same account

 or

I divide the space between 2 accounts (20 TB each).

Since I want to test some pools & may be want to open one myself in near future I want to keep 2 different accounts so that I don't need to change the reward assignment for the whole available space every now & then while testing. The question is, does it impact the possibility of getting a block while using the same resources (40 TB) but divided between 2 different burst account or it just generates the same number of coins giving the same equation of possibility ?

Throw all your power at us. mine.burstcoin.info

Any updates on payments yet as I have now close to 15k burst waiting to be paid on?

[hvidgaard]

I'm using quite large stagger size files, 1048576 to be specific, setting CacheSize to a value lower than that actually result in much faster processing (51s vs 40s).

If you set CacheSize - 1048576 , miner's thread finding 1 best deadline in 1 file and put it's to Sender.
If you set CacheSize - 131072, miner's thread finding 8 best deadlines in 1 file and put it's to Sender, Sender sends first best deadline to server, waiting response too much time, after sending second deadline, waiting again

Setting the stagger size to 131072 is actually faster. Only takes 41-43 seconds to process all the plots, setting it to 1048576 it takes at least 53 seconds and the CPU utilization is not 100%, so bigger is not better in this case for some reason.

[Youghoor]

I'm using quite large stagger size files, 1048576 to be specific, setting CacheSize to a value lower than that actually result in much faster processing (51s vs 40s).

If you set CacheSize - 1048576 , miner's thread finding 1 best deadline in 1 file and put it's to Sender.
If you set CacheSize - 131072, miner's thread finding 8 best deadlines in 1 file and put it's to Sender, Sender sends first best deadline to server, waiting response too much time, after sending second deadline, waiting again

Setting the stagger size to 131072 is actually faster. Only takes 41-43 seconds to process all the plots, setting it to 1048576 it takes at least 53 seconds and the CPU utilization is not 100%, so bigger is not better in this case for some reason.

bigger is always better.

[PummelHummel]

has any one figured it out whether 5400 vs 7200rpm is better, or does matter at all?

[DrTrouble]

has any one figured it out whether 5400 vs 7200rpm is better, or does matter at all?

As long as you are getting all your shares in on time it shouldn't really matter.  It is obvious that plotting will be a bit slower.  Personally, if I already had the drives I would use either 5400 or 7200.  But if I was buying them, I would pay the little bit extra for 7200rpm as they will be better to resell later on...

[tex81]

has any one figured it out whether 5400 vs 7200rpm is better, or does matter at all?

Reading speed is not related to RPM (on a different models of HDD)

[fivebells]

Maybe a lower-speed drive would benefit more from optimization?  (Seeks would take longer?)

[Pilotseye]

Just ordered 3x 3TB USB 3.0 drives, please give me an idea what would be the most efficient way
to plot them with R9 290X GPU and i7-4700MQ CPU with 8GB RAM, in regards to plot size and stagger.

Thanks 

[xizmax]

Just ordered 3x 3TB USB 3.0 drives, please give me an idea what would be the most efficient way
to plot them with R9 290X GPU and i7-4700MQ CPU with 8GB RAM, in regards to plot size and stagger.

Thanks 

Quit making my 200gb plot on a pentium E5200 feel inadequate

On another note, is blago's new miner tested?

[ArnMan]

New update Miner-BURST-1.141014

* rewrote the sorting code
+ added output messages of checks
+ added rainbow and fun
+ added debug parameter
! during the tests was not found differences in deadlines
! better use "CacheSize" => your max stagger

limits:
1000 files in 1 path (folder)
max paths = 24
Sender's array of best deadlines = 2400000

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9so0bo71wg6nf3k/miner-burst-1.141014.zip?dl=0

Does this support Pool 1? the dev's first pool?

[crowetic]

If I have 40 TB storage for burst mining which of the following is better (of course in terms of pool mining not solo) ?

I plot all the available space to same account

 or

I divide the space between 2 accounts (20 TB each).

Since I want to test some pools & may be want to open one myself in near future I want to keep 2 different accounts so that I don't need to change the reward assignment for the whole available space every now & then while testing. The question is, does it impact the possibility of getting a block while using the same resources (40 TB) but divided between 2 different burst account or it just generates the same number of coins giving the same equation of possibility ?

Throw all your power at us. mine.burstcoin.info

Any updates on payments yet as I have now close to 15k burst waiting to be paid on?

What are you talking about? lol.

[crazyearner]

If I have 40 TB storage for burst mining which of the following is better (of course in terms of pool mining not solo) ?

I plot all the available space to same account

 or

I divide the space between 2 accounts (20 TB each).

Since I want to test some pools & may be want to open one myself in near future I want to keep 2 different accounts so that I don't need to change the reward assignment for the whole available space every now & then while testing. The question is, does it impact the possibility of getting a block while using the same resources (40 TB) but divided between 2 different burst account or it just generates the same number of coins giving the same equation of possibility ?

Throw all your power at us. mine.burstcoin.info

Any updates on payments yet as I have now close to 15k burst waiting to be paid on?

What are you talking about? lol.

my bad am getting pool owners mixed up lol tohught you owned multi pool had long day lol.

[Irontiga]

@burstcoin are we updating to nxt 1.3.0? It makes use of a database and stores stuff about shareholders...which I think is handy!

[DrTrouble]

Just ordered 3x 3TB USB 3.0 drives, please give me an idea what would be the most efficient way
to plot them with R9 290X GPU and i7-4700MQ CPU with 8GB RAM, in regards to plot size and stagger.

Thanks 

Quit making my 200gb plot on a pentium E5200 feel inadequate

On another note, is blago's new miner tested?

One site that I found myself and have not seen anywhere else is this Plot Composer - http://plot.burstcoin.ru/  .  When I first started mining and was having a hell of a time figuring out plots/staggers and such, this site saved me big time!  I used it to figure out which plots I was going to use across my nearly 30TB of distributed HDDs (I used 256GB plots).  Note: I did not use the java plotter, I used the GPU plotter.  But this Plot Composer told me how the plots should all be lined up.  I have asked the dev to place it on the first OP but no word back so far.

I just looked in to it and realized Uray created it...I should have known!!  Thanks again, Uray!

[burstcoin]

@burstcoin are we updating to nxt 1.3.0? It makes use of a database and stores stuff about shareholders...which I think is handy!

This has just become new top priority. The database stuff fixes a major scalability issue that needed to be addressed at some point, and since this breaks compatibility with a lot of stuff I've done with the client, it doesn't make sense to keep adding stuff the current way to just have to change it over later.

[Irontiga]

What is the formula to change basetarget to network size?

[kamronk]

From what I'm gathering, you still need a decent graphics card to mine? Or how does your cpu/gpu come into play here?

Also, is there a pool that works best with ubuntu?