Cairnsmore1 - Quad XC6SLX150 Board

[LazyOtto]

Glasswalker, in doing a review of the cairnsmoreworker.py with dynamic clocking support I have only one question.

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Nevermind, I see that idea doesn't work. I'll just increase the required number of shares per speed step during warmup. As you've already provided.
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Would it perhaps be more appropriate, or at least more conservative, to only reset the "recentinvalid" count upon a speed decrease rather than also on every speed increase? Might preclude a potential 'runaway' situation.

e.g., "if speedstep < 0:" in the below

Of course, please let me know if I overlooked something which moots this idea.

Code:

    if critical:
      speedstep = -10
      self.initialramp = False
    elif warning:
      speedstep = -1
      self.initialramp = False
    elif not self.recentinvalid and self.recentshares >= threshold:
      speedstep = 1
    else: speedstep = 0    

    if speedstep: self._set_speed(self.speed + speedstep)

    if speedstep:
      self.recentinvalid = 0
      self.recentshares = 0

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[steamboat]

Ebereon, quick question for you

How many CM1's do you have per instance of mpbm, per netbook? I seem to be getting some instability issues with cards or pairs of chips dropping if i run more than 15.

[ebereon]

Ebereon, quick question for you

How many CM1's do you have per instance of mpbm, per netbook? I seem to be getting some instability issues with cards or pairs of chips dropping if i run more than 15.

I have no instability issues and I use USB-Hubs from EasyLine (2,99€; 4P), MS-TECH (16,99€; 7P) and LogiLink (14,99€; 10P).

But as I run Windows I can only connect 30 boards to one netbook (Atom N2600) and 20 Boards to the other (Atom 450). The system process uses up to 50% only for handling interupts. 40 boards running 1.5 controller (using up/down) with makomk bitstreams 200-220Mhz, 10 boards glasswalker combination. And here is my problem now, the 10 boards with glasswalkers bitstreams increases the cpu load by 10% (interupts), as glasswalkers controller need all 4 COMs from one board.
... I need to switch to linux now...

When a board/fpga droped out I trashed the damn "enterpoint USB cable" and used a new one. That way my boards running rock stable > 20 days. Every problem I had until today was faulty USB cables.

Eb

[steamboat]

Ebereon, quick question for you

How many CM1's do you have per instance of mpbm, per netbook? I seem to be getting some instability issues with cards or pairs of chips dropping if i run more than 15.

I have no instability issues and I use USB-Hubs from EasyLine (2,99€; 4P), MS-TECH (16,99€; 7P) and LogiLink (14,99€; 10P).

But as I run Windows I can only connect 30 boards to one netbook (Atom N2600) and 20 Boards to the other (Atom 450). The system process uses up to 50% only for handling interupts. 40 boards running 1.5 controller (using up/down) with makomk bitstreams 200-220Mhz, 10 boards glasswalker combination. And here is my problem now, the 10 boards with glasswalkers bitstreams increases the cpu load by 10% (interupts), as glasswalkers controller need all 4 COMs from one board.
... I need to switch to linux now...

When a board/fpga droped out I trashed the damn "enterpoint USB cable" and used a new one. That way my boards running rock stable > 20 days. Every problem I had until today was faulty USB cables.

Eb

hrm. that may be my issue then. I was very surprised when I connected the new set and all of them were recognized with the enterpoint usb cables, though i noticed cards dropping randomly when I started mpbm. I will do more testing today and let you know what happens.

EDIT: I switched out the cables to the offending boards and all seems to be running smoothly.

[norulezapply]

I wonder if anyone was able to set up CM1 board mining with Raspberry Pi already? If yes, how many boards is one RPi able to handle?

I'm running two with my Pi. No problems here. Can probably handle a lot more

[toxicocean]

I'm mining with a Raspberry Pi too, only 1 board though, but I guess it can handle a few more at least.

[LazyOtto]

Looks like I'll have to buy a jtag cable.

Does anyone have experience with this one:
http://www.amazon.com/SainSmart-Download-Programmer-Xilinx-Platform/dp/B0057OC5VQ/ref=pd_cp_pc_0

I can report that the SainSmart device works with Xilinx Impact.

My problem board is now fully flashed and hashing again.

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NOTE: Install stand-alone "LabTools" rather than the WebPack in order for Impact to be able to program/flash the Spartan 6 / 150 FPGAs. Otherwise you'll get a rather unhelpful message about a corrupt file when the problem is really that the free WebPack version isn't licensed to operate on the 'big' FPGA's.

[Cranky4u]

Anyone know if the usual suspects, mokokam, is producing a +220MHs bitstream? I am all 220MHs with <0.5% error rates

[LazyOtto]

Anyone know if the usual suspects, mokokam, is producing a +220MHs bitstream? I am all 220MHs with <0.5% error rates

Merely FYI, running over 200 will void your warrantee.
(Search posts in this thread or the "Cairnsmore1 Manual - Issue 1.0")

To your question though, so far as I know the only thing currently in the works is Glasswalker's "sea of hashers" approach. That is a complete ground up re-design and I don't think it is reasonable to be expecting it to arrive any time soon.

[Keninishna]

anyone using the latest dynamic glasswalker bitstream in mpbm notice that after a few days the hasrate of most of the chips drops to about 180 mh/s each?

[kano]

anyone using the latest dynamic glasswalker bitstream in mpbm notice that after a few days the hasrate of most of the chips drops to about 180 mh/s each?

Send me one and I'll let you know if cgminer does it also
(after I write the code)

[Lethos]

anyone using the latest dynamic glasswalker bitstream in mpbm notice that after a few days the hasrate of most of the chips drops to about 180 mh/s each?

Send me one and I'll let you know if cgminer does it also
(after I write the code)

I haven't noticed that. Longest I went before I needed to restarted it, unrelated to mining, was 3 days and they were all averaging the same rate they were after their first few hours and stayed there. Did you get more invalids enough to trigger it to dethrottle?

[Keninishna]

anyone using the latest dynamic glasswalker bitstream in mpbm notice that after a few days the hasrate of most of the chips drops to about 180 mh/s each?

Send me one and I'll let you know if cgminer does it also
(after I write the code)

I haven't noticed that. Longest I went before I needed to restarted it, unrelated to mining, was 3 days and they were all averaging the same rate they were after their first few hours and stayed there. Did you get more invalids enough to trigger it to dethrottle?

They had been running for over 4 days without a restart. Maybe the invalids were catching up but they were all within 1% range.

[Lethos]

anyone using the latest dynamic glasswalker bitstream in mpbm notice that after a few days the hasrate of most of the chips drops to about 180 mh/s each?

Send me one and I'll let you know if cgminer does it also
(after I write the code)

I haven't noticed that. Longest I went before I needed to restarted it, unrelated to mining, was 3 days and they were all averaging the same rate they were after their first few hours and stayed there. Did you get more invalids enough to trigger it to dethrottle?

They had been running for over 4 days without a restart. Maybe the invalids were catching up but they were all within 1% range.

Depends on your settings, I've tweaked mine a lot since I got it, I forget what the defaults are now.

Mine considers it to be an overload condition if it goes over 1%, which rarely happens (0.01% to 0.6% is typical for mine).
It has a critical at 4%, not sure what that does, but I assume it drops it down to it's min speed straight away, I guess.

However if you leave it long enough if it's invaliding a lot it will dethrottle to a slower speed. Your invalids might be anywhere from 10-20% for a while, at this new slower speed, however give it a few hours, with getting 0 invalids, which will slowly bring down your average so if you didn't notice when it had it's problem, you might be none the wiser.
There is a debug log, but it depends if you want to sift through it to find out when it happened to see if you can explain why it occurred.

[makomk]

Anyone know if the usual suspects, mokokam, is producing a +220MHs bitstream? I am all 220MHs with <0.5% error rates

I'm actually testing one out now that has a higher maximum cap. Thoroughly voids your warranty of course, as LazyOtto pointed out.

[Cranky4u]

Anyone know if the usual suspects, mokokam, is producing a +220MHs bitstream? I am all 220MHs with <0.5% error rates

I'm actually testing one out now that has a higher maximum cap. Thoroughly voids your warranty of course, as LazyOtto pointed out.

Given that the CM1 will not be profitable to run shortly after ASIC release, well not profitable in Australia due to high power costs of $0.22 kW/hr, I will not be needing the warranty after ~Q1 2013. So I say "burn baby burn"....happy mining

[LazyOtto]

So I say "burn baby burn"....happy mining

<lol>

A noble, and rational, attitude.

I wish you the best of luck.

And please do post the results you get.

[steamboat]

I'm running the dynamic hashvoodoo release capped at 200 on mpbm and a laptop and i've been noticing my rig doesn't like more than 17 boards connected at once. It always drops 2 random boards a few hours after I reset them. Each time one of them drops I swap out the usb cable for a new one. It's possible they aren't getting enough power, but I have them connected to a 1000 watt power supply on a 1500va/1000 watt UPS that hasn't given any warnings, and the rig only draws 950 from the wall, so i should have ~250 watts to spare. I'm going to split the rig up and see what happens over the weekend.

[Isokivi]

So I say "burn baby burn"....happy mining

<lol>

A noble, and rational, attitude.

I wish you the best of luck.

And please do post the results you get.

Once the difficulty "gets there" Im also looking to give my cairnsmores a viking burial.

[yohan]

I'm running the dynamic hashvoodoo release capped at 200 on mpbm and a laptop and i've been noticing my rig doesn't like more than 17 boards connected at once. It always drops 2 random boards a few hours after I reset them. Each time one of them drops I swap out the usb cable for a new one. It's possible they aren't getting enough power, but I have them connected to a 1000 watt power supply on a 1500va/1000 watt UPS that hasn't given any warnings, and the rig only draws 950 from the wall, so i should have ~250 watts to spare. I'm going to split the rig up and see what happens over the weekend.

You have to be a little careful on what an individual ATX PSU will do. The additive of individual rails is often more than the overall rating but conversely that doesn't mean you can get the entire 1000 watts out of the 12V rails.

In some power supplies the 12V is also split and individual sections have a limit and it is possible to exceed the limit on one section whilst under capacity either overall or even in other sections.

There is another aspect which probably isn't a big factor in modern ATX supplies but I will mention to be complete and that is where the 5V or 3.3V is underloaded and causes an issue. In older supplies there was often a primary regulation based on usually 5V loading. Low or no load on the 5V typically lowered what I will call the excitation of the power supply and basically it drops too low to provide enough energy to 12V circuits. Some of you may have noticed that we put a small loading on our PDB for 5V and 3.3V to avoid this issue.