CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded GPU kernels.

[sp_]

for some reason - the stratum is forcing a change in the diff level ... even though the diff has been set to 0.04 ...
extranonce changes maybe? ...
edit - found the issue ... the stratum proxy can allow the worker passwords to be forwarded rather than its own ( which is why d=0.04 wasnt working ) ...
no that the miner password is being forwarded to the pool - the diff level is 0.04 ...
lets see if it stays that way now ...
edit - nup ... its westhash forcing it to change diff ...
working on it to see if there is a way of doing it ...
#crysx

Wich setting are you using? the -g switch?

I have made a new switch '-e' that will turn of the extranounce subscription. Nicehash/westhash doesn't seem to like it because it keeps disconnecting/restart the miner connection, and then you get more rejects.

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[chrysophylax]

for some reason - the stratum is forcing a change in the diff level ... even though the diff has been set to 0.04 ...
extranonce changes maybe? ...
edit - found the issue ... the stratum proxy can allow the worker passwords to be forwarded rather than its own ( which is why d=0.04 wasnt working ) ...
no that the miner password is being forwarded to the pool - the diff level is 0.04 ...
lets see if it stays that way now ...
edit - nup ... its westhash forcing it to change diff ...
working on it to see if there is a way of doing it ...
#crysx

Wich setting are you using? the -g switch?

I have made a new switch '-e' that will turn of the extranounce subscription. Nicehash/westhash doesn't seem to like it because it keeps disconnecting/restart the miner connection, and then you get more rejects.

no - no -g ...

my command ( in script ) under linux ...

./ccminer -o stratum+tcp://donate.granitecoinx.com:7919/ -u chrysophylax.cm002 -p d=0.04 -a quark -r 3 -R 10 ...

originally this ...

./ccminer -o stratum+tcp://donate.granitecoinx.com:7919/ -O chrysophylax.cm002:x -a quark -r 3 -R 10 ...

ive changed the miner to this now ...

./ccminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.westhash.com:3345/ -u 1CTiNJyoUmbdMRACtteRWXhGqtSETYd6Vd -p d=0.04 -a quark -r 3 -R 10 ...

to check whether mining directly will force the diff change ... and it doesnt ...

seems westhash does its own thing ... currently at 0.08 difficulty ...

changing it back to the donation link now ...

#crysx

[sp_]

I was wondering the same. We're mining the coin at block ~1,620,000. What is that coin??
MUE @ 660,000
SRC  @ 865,000
DIME @ 820,000
QRK @ 1,960,000
BTQ @ 1,143,000
BITCRY @ 93,500
There are few less known quark coins, some dead, but none @ 1,620,000

are you sure?

- Dimecoin
- Molecule
- Atom
- SecondsCoin
- Union Coin
- SecureCoin
- Frozen
- RVDCoin
- Cthulhu
- Particle
- ZurCoin
- C-Notes
 - Photon
 - Bull Coin
- FairQuark (really?)
- MiniCoin
- PlatinumCoin
- RandomQuark
- BitQuark
- QuarkBar
- Probe - See more at: http://www.quarkcoins.com/quark-clones.html#sthash.8FZWdBhD.dpuf

[bathrobehero]

On the gigabyte oc 750ti(win32) -g 5 -i 21.8 is showing +250-500Khash in the miner, but on the pool -1Mhash or more because of the rejects/fees.

I'm not sure about the legitimicy of the speed increase. The hashrate reports doesn't factor in the overall time it took to produce the hashes.

What I mean is the hashrate reports with the -g parameter are happening individually:


I think with the -g parameter a different hashrate calculation method is needed that calculates the true hashrate, based on the actual time it took to produce it from all the threads. The best approach might be a small moving average that reports the hashrate like every 5 seconds or so and not based on when a thread is finished because some threads are faster than others.

[sp_]

yes. I messure only the total hash and divide on all the cards. 250-500 increase in the total hash, but the individual hashrates fluctate more.
Note that I have also removed some bugs in the hashrate calculation on github. Release 49(exe) is giving wrong values with the -g parameter.

[arpika]

Maybe I discovered some type of error...
After pool has solved some blocks very quickly ccminer hashrate drops radically and one of my cards stops (in this case #1)
Although one card stopped accepted hasrate is the same by ccminer. Pool hasrate drops so one card has really stopped.
Default speed, no -g, linux, 6*750ti.

http://s5.postimg.org/6dsaphgh3/ccm.jpg

I think this is only about quark algo.

[tbearhere]

New world record for quark on the 750ti

yaamp.com:4033 quark block 1621936
GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 6992
GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 9895
GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 8825
GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 6487


-g 5 -i 22 standard clocks.

@ sp
Do you have that compiled for windows 8.1
And if I don't use the -g -i  ect and just oc will I get about the same results ?
Thx
ps It's time to donate again. 

[sp_]

New world record for quark on the 750ti
yaamp.com:4033 quark block 1621936
GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 6992
GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 9895
GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 8825
GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 6487
-g 5 -i 22 standard clocks.

@ sp
Do you have that compiled for windows 8.1
And if I don't use the -g -i  ect and just oc will I get about the same results ?
Thx
ps It's time to donate again. 

Yes. I need some more beers:)

Works in solomining. Low rates on the multipools because of a stratum/nounce bug

[tbearhere]

New world record for quark on the 750ti
yaamp.com:4033 quark block 1621936
GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 6992
GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 9895
GPU #0: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 8825
GPU #1: GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 6487
-g 5 -i 22 standard clocks.

@ sp
Do you have that compiled for windows 8.1
And if I don't use the -g -i  ect and just oc will I get about the same results ?
Thx
ps It's time to donate again.  

Yes. I need some more beers:)

Works in solomining. Low rates on the multipools because of a stratum/nounce bug

Do you have that compiled for windows 8.1? I mean the r49 with those updates.

[hashbrown9000]

@SP_, what are your stable o/c settings for the gigabyte 750ti cards?  I use +200 on gpu and -150 on mem. it gets me about +1MH/s in Quark. but the rig uses about 15 watts more total versus stock clocks.

[Grout]

Yes. I need some more beers:)

Works in solomining. Low rates on the multipools because of a stratum/nounce bug

One beer coming your way, hope it won't get too shaken up during transit :-)
Transaction ID: bd4c54bf3079039d6c02737b9c2cc3c5e79dc88160b696a9563279036d3cd5e3

[tbearhere]

@sp On release 49 before your lastest changes I'm getting about 1 mh/s more on my 750ti rig about 6.2mh/s per card  oc.
I need a windows compiled r49 7z zip file with your last minute fixes and hashrates please.
Thx
Here are a some beers. 
.05 BTC TrxID: 8c80858b6e9fe953cfa6fc68eaeaa8574bb5253805291be39cf100370a40d68c

[bensam1231]

Ouch! yaamp hitting quark with 8% fee.

This is not going to be popular but I have to say I like that. I think that serves people right for being lazy. I mean that fee at least incentivizes miners to do their research about what to mine instead of pretty much ruinning the prices of coins they don't even know existed. There are 4 quark coins being mined by yaamp and the combined daily volume of those coins are below 2 BTC and they are all going down:

Miners don't care about coins, they care about what is most profitable. When a new algo hits GPU miners (if it was only a CPU miner before) it will take a dive till the market reaches equilibrium with other mineable algos, like x11. The same goes for ASICs. When Scrypt hit ASICs it did the same exact thing. I don't think people who make algos realize how much influence they have on market values. It's all based around efficiency and hash per unit (like a 970).


Curiously are there any plans for improved support for Cryptonote? The algo is still quite healthy as is the market and the last update was from TSIV quite some time ago.

[bathrobehero]

Miners don't care about coins

That's true since you don't need anything other than pointing your hardware at a multipool but if miners did care they would earn much, much more money than they currently do.

[flipclip]

hmm, running ubuntu 14.04 i never had a no cuda devices installed error.  as long as the path is exported each time before the miner is run, the miner works on any user including root.

Maybe it was due to an upgrade of versions caused the problem then.

[flipclip]

Miners don't care about coins

That's true since you don't need anything other than pointing your hardware at a multipool but if miners did care they would earn much, much more money than they currently do.

Yeah but caring would require much, much more effort 

[chrysophylax]

Ouch! yaamp hitting quark with 8% fee.

This is not going to be popular but I have to say I like that. I think that serves people right for being lazy. I mean that fee at least incentivizes miners to do their research about what to mine instead of pretty much ruinning the prices of coins they don't even know existed. There are 4 quark coins being mined by yaamp and the combined daily volume of those coins are below 2 BTC and they are all going down:

Miners don't care about coins, they care about what is most profitable. When a new algo hits GPU miners (if it was only a CPU miner before) it will take a dive till the market reaches equilibrium with other mineable algos, like x11. The same goes for ASICs. When Scrypt hit ASICs it did the same exact thing. I don't think people who make algos realize how much influence they have on market values. It's all based around efficiency and hash per unit (like a 970).


Curiously are there any plans for improved support for Cryptonote? The algo is still quite healthy as is the market and the last update was from TSIV quite some time ago.

that is unfair statement to blanket 'miners' with the same tarred brush ... yes i did take that as a negative statement - even though your point is a valid one ...

not ALL miners do this ... we originally built the farm to mine nothing but litecoin - then feathercoin ...

the farm STILL only mines a few coins on a regular basis ( with the occasional multi ) ... granitecoin is permanent - feathercoin occasional - and a few other coins that have a small but regular flow - like blackcoin and spreadcoin ...

BUT - unfortunately you are spot on with regards to the majority of miners who are in it for the short term profit ...

im happy ( and proud in a way ) to say - we are not ... the technology and long term is what we are in it for - even though so called 'profits' are not easy to come by ...

this farm and all that comes with it ( from hardware and cabling to software and networking ) is mostly from our ( ie - my ... as im the main financier ) pockets ...

but again - its not just about the short term profits for us ...

#crysx

[chrysophylax]

Miners don't care about coins

That's true since you don't need anything other than pointing your hardware at a multipool but if miners did care they would earn much, much more money than they currently do.

+1 ...

#crysx

[chrysophylax]

Miners don't care about coins

That's true since you don't need anything other than pointing your hardware at a multipool but if miners did care they would earn much, much more money than they currently do.

Yeah but caring would require much, much more effort 

once again ...

i personally can vouch for that ...

its why in a few weeks im personally taking a full time interest in it ...

#crysx

[bensam1231]

Miners don't care about coins

That's true since you don't need anything other than pointing your hardware at a multipool but if miners did care they would earn much, much more money than they currently do.

This used to be true, I'm not so sure about anymore. There is no aggregate place to go to to learn about new coins and talk about them. Bitcointalk is huge and easy to lose random shit in it unless you spend tons of time searching through it to find new coins that are promising. There used to be big pool sites, like suchpool and dedicatedpool where you could essentially find big promising coins that are 'hyped' and mine them. Now they've been reduced to almost nothing or simply closed.

The day and age of big mining seems to pretty much be over unless BTC increases in a couple hundred. PoS has also helped give miners the final push out the door.

That being said 'holding' on coins has done nothing except lose me money. Everytime a coin starts to drop, occasionally it'll get a bounce, but any major dump is usually the end for it as confidence is lost and people move on to 'more promising' coins. I think I only had one coin where holding actually was beneficial, Gorillacoin.

This is generally why things have broken down into multipools and cloudmining aggregates. Becaues you essentially have two jobs here. Finding coins that are profitable to mine and providing a mining service. Both take a decent chunk of time. If you're already spending time finding niche coins to mine, you don't need hardware as you can purchase hashrate on something like Nicehash and since you can purchase on Nicehash, how much money you're losing by not mining isn't applicable as there is a direct correlation to the amount of good coins that are currently being mined. You're essentially not gaining anything extra by mining yourself unless mining power isn't available (like NIST5 for instance).

You could make a full time job JUST out of watching the market, especially if you're holding a few different coins, let alone finding new ones. I personally have a lot invested in one small coin and that itself still takes a decent chunk of time.

once again ...

i personally can vouch for that ...

its why in a few weeks im personally taking a full time interest in it ...

#crysx

You'll need it. Fending for scraps and riding on the coat tails of a roller coaster each and every day. I guess if you live in a third world country or one where wages aren't very high, mining is still promising compared to working for Foxcon or Apple, but not in the US. You need more then pennies to make something worth your time.

Mining itself isn't where the money is, the money is in finding coins and purchasing hashpower, and even more so in just playing the market.