CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded GPU kernels.

[jonesskill]

Links:

https://forum.z.cash/t/gpu-miner-to-be-released-optimizations/538

Daira comment:  "... Equihash is not intended to be "GPU-resistant"; only to limit the relative advantage of a GPU over a CPU..."

And this one:

https://forum.z.cash/t/zcash-gpu-mining-faster-than-cpu-mining/1300/35

Daira and Shawn comments.

[bensam1231]

Looks like mining at a pool is paying 30% more then nicehash.  whattomine.com

Its been like that since the pools got their shit sorted out, couple hours after release.  In general Nicehash pays shit for mining hash as it's dominated by bots that auto adjust the price to push it down as low as possible. Legit renters can't actually purchase hashing power without using fixed rates.

[Supercomputing]

thinking of doing a crowd funding as usual...
new current speed 133sol/sec (yeah it changes fast still highly unoptimized  

Damn that is fast.. I think I need to go back to the drawing board..

Do  you have a screenshot please?

here we go... : (the number of sol is consistent with what gets reported by suprnova)

I have 29 h/sec and 59 sol/sec, and you have 6 h/sec and 133 sol/sec... Strange...
I use i6700 and 1080 card.

Wait a minute, the calculations are off from this image. The nonce is in sequential order until a new job arrives, then it resets to zero.

Now keep in mind that the solution rate per run for Equihash parameter (n=200, k=9) is approximately 1.87905. Therefore, a million runs of the solver with a random nonce should produce 1,879,050 solutions on average. This is actually consistent with the number of runs reported in the image above. The only problem is that it is 12 Sol/s; I am not sure how the 134 Sol/s is being calculated. Also, as far as ZCash’s implementation of Equihash is concerned, H/s = Sol/s. A hash is actually a hash of your solution set which is then compared against the target difficulty.

I think that we should all be on the same page when measuring solution rate, it would create less confusion.

[rednoW]

well, nicehash has integrated silent army in nheqminer.
Just compiled on windows. It works but also huge cpu usage and the half of the hash comparing to Genoil's.
Maybe it is due to my old amd app sdk (2.9-1, was not able to download 3.0 from amd site due to download errors in the middle) or the code needs some tuning ...

[ioglnx]

I get this on current version:
0:06:04][0x00003228] miner#5 | Starting thread #5 (CPU-XENONCAT-AVX2)
[10:06:04][0x00003274] miner#6 | Starting thread #6 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x000022c0] miner#7 | Starting thread #7 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x00002570] miner#8 | Starting thread #8 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x000033b4] miner#9 | Starting thread #9 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x000032dc] miner#10 | Starting thread #10 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO

[antantti]

Looks like mining at a pool is paying 30% more then nicehash.  whattomine.com

Its been like that since the pools got their shit sorted out, couple hours after release.  In general Nicehash pays shit for mining hash as it's dominated by bots that auto adjust the price to push it down as low as possible. Legit renters can't actually purchase hashing power without using fixed rates.

I sometimes open fixed buy orders if I think mining profitability on that algo might go up. If it happens I refill, if not I just cancel that order and loose some satoshis.

There have been some periods where NH has been paying better than mining ZEC if you count your earnings in BTC.

What happens to ZEC price if BTC dives now? Yes I know so OT but that's what this thread has been all about lately.

PS. I like djm ))

[tbearhere]

well, nicehash has integrated silent army in nheqminer.
Just compiled on windows. It works but also huge cpu usage and the half of the hash comparing to Genoil's.
Maybe it is due to my old amd app sdk (2.9-1, was not able to download 3.0 from amd site due to download errors in the middle) or the code needs some tuning ...

rednoW what is that silent army  plz?    thx

[rednoW]

well, nicehash has integrated silent army in nheqminer.
Just compiled on windows. It works but also huge cpu usage and the half of the hash comparing to Genoil's.
Maybe it is due to my old amd app sdk (2.9-1, was not able to download 3.0 from amd site due to download errors in the middle) or the code needs some tuning ...

rednoW what is that silent army  plz?    thx

It is an equihash solver, but it is not a miner - so this solver must be integrated to miner.
Read more here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1666489.0

[rednoW]

I get this on current version:
0:06:04][0x00003228] miner#5 | Starting thread #5 (CPU-XENONCAT-AVX2)
[10:06:04][0x00003274] miner#6 | Starting thread #6 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x000022c0] miner#7 | Starting thread #7 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x00002570] miner#8 | Starting thread #8 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x000033b4] miner#9 | Starting thread #9 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x000032dc] miner#10 | Starting thread #10 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO

you should download windows-silentarmy branch

[ioglnx]

It is the silent army branch  
When i downloaded it this morning at 10am GMT+1 this is what i get..
0:06:04][0x00003228] miner#5 | Starting thread #5 (CPU-XENONCAT-AVX2)
[10:06:04][0x00003274] miner#6 | Starting thread #6 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x000022c0] miner#7 | Starting thread #7 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x00002570] miner#8 | Starting thread #8 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x000033b4] miner#9 | Starting thread #9 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
[10:06:04][0x000032dc] miner#10 | Starting thread #10 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO

Still with the current version i get this issue and I used the branch
https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer/tree/Windows_silentarmy

So mabye you share your working version with us?!

[rednoW]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4flkNGCHIGFanNuYUNUYkRldms

Again - it works slow! Check config for your opencl platform and cards
And I compiled it without avx ...

[tbearhere]

well, nicehash has integrated silent army in nheqminer.
Just compiled on windows. It works but also huge cpu usage and the half of the hash comparing to Genoil's.
Maybe it is due to my old amd app sdk (2.9-1, was not able to download 3.0 from amd site due to download errors in the middle) or the code needs some tuning ...

rednoW what is that silent army  plz?    thx

It is an equihash solver, but it is not a miner - so this solver must be integrated to miner.
Read more here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1666489.0

ok I see ... thx

[reb0rn21]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4flkNGCHIGFanNuYUNUYkRldms

Again - it works slow! Check config for your opencl platform and cards
And I compiled it without avx ...

works fine on tahiti AMD cards in silent army mode, but for 1070 opencl error:

[19:21:40][0x0000219c] miner#1 | Starting thread #1 (OCL_SILENTARMY) TODO
OpenCL error: -1001 at opencl.cpp:14
OpenCL error: -42 at opencl.cpp:172

ATM: this miner is fastest for rx 380 with 4GB, 2x instanes are doing over 30sol/s matching nv 1070 speed

[jonesskill]

Even Genesis Mining increase their S/s today...

[Tuner77]

Hah... From my perspective

There's your problem. Markets, and market participants don't care about 'your perspective'. It's bottom line. Anyone who has participated in NYSE big board, CBOE options/futures, PINK/OTC learns early on: you have no friends here, there are no do-overs, no handouts, no freebies. And I get it, I'm all left in my politics and happy to see collectives form in a more open crypto world -- I'll even support that ideology over the lone cash-cow producer model -- but I'm not going to cry and whine about a market participant's choices. Jeesus, that's just fucking embarrassing. No way. It's here, I have it, or it's not, I don't. Next.

[Zekku]

I'm getting 50-54 sol/s with my 2x 970 evga ssc.

Any idea what a Strix 1070/1080 are achieving?

[bitkings]

I'm getting 50-54 sol/s with my 2x 970 evga ssc.

Any idea what a Strix 1070/1080 are achieving?

1070 is doing around 32 Sol/s, 1080 is very close to what 1070 can do at the moment...

[Xdragon]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4flkNGCHIGFanNuYUNUYkRldms

Again - it works slow! Check config for your opencl platform and cards
And I compiled it without avx ...

ATM: this miner is fastest for r9 380 with 4GB, 2x instanes are doing over 30sol/s matching nv 1070 speed

this works with 1070 (-cd) but same speed about 30ss
My 380's are doing average 17 sol/s , 2 instance same/worse. 270x280x also 16-17sol/ average.

[zjy]

Getting around 11-12 sol on a 750ti with this latest build in Linux

https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer

Might be time to dust off those old 750 cards if you have any around

If you have a 4 core cpu.. you should get 19 sol/s.

Thanks for the tip, 19 sol/s per card would be a major boost and make it one of the more energy efficient cards around.

Are you running them in a 6 card rig?

19 sol per card for 750ti now ？

[reb0rn21]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4flkNGCHIGFanNuYUNUYkRldms

Again - it works slow! Check config for your opencl platform and cards
And I compiled it without avx ...

ATM: this miner is fastest for r9 380 with 4GB, 2x instanes are doing over 30sol/s matching nv 1070 speed

this works with 1070 (-cd) but same speed about 30ss
My 380's are doing average 17 sol/s , 2 instance same/worse. 270x280x also 16-17sol/ average.

you need 4gb on 380, then its doing ~30sol/s for the instances, but CPU might be weak because silent army is a bit cpu heavy