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July 21, 2012, 05:30:11 AM |
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Are you running the cards all on the same rig? LTC mining is GPU memory bandwidth intensive, if all 4 cards are running at only 1x or 4x or even 8x you'll probably be bottlenecked.
Try using only one GPU in running at 16x.
I have my 5770 on an x1 and it's mining ~200kh/s just fine. So memory bandwidth has nothing to do with it, at least over the southbridge... Someone should really post a chart that plots performance in kh/s with the speed of the memory for the GPU. I'm really wondering if it's linear or not. This implementation of scrypt is small enough to be done in the L2 cache, so I have always been wondering how the GPU implementation required megabytes. I wish someone would break down the algorithm for us or something, but I guess it's in the source code. N=1024,p=1,r=1 -> 128KiB i.e. each thread requires 128K or RAM e.g. in a GPU with 128 parallel processes running at the same time that 128KiB each becomes 16MB shouldn't an asic be easy to make then? I mean arm cortex a9s can carry up to 1m level 2 cache... they're slow but they're also cheap and energy efficient. I think they only use about 500mW per cpu
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July 21, 2012, 05:46:05 AM |
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lets say they are "easy" to make......it will cost millions for production to start.
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July 21, 2012, 05:48:23 AM Last edit: July 21, 2012, 06:05:42 AM by tacotime |
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lets say they are "easy" to make......it will cost millions for production to start.
I answered my own question in the android miner thread. even running the optimized neon code from pooler an a9 isn't power competitive. still, settings for scrypt using 32-128mb would have been better I think -- gpus have faster ram than most any other consumer or industry device. edit: okay, sorry to be OT but if you wanted to make it CPU mining only, why wouldn't you just set the memory requirement to be 1 gigabyte per thread? Most computers right now have 4-16GB of RAM --> 4-16 threads, which would be terrible on a GPU with only 1-2GB of RAM. You could make the blockchain halving occur every 18 months and then with the blockchain halving increase the amount of RAM required by 2 eg (1GB -> 2GB). In accordance with Moore's law, that would keep the quantity of RAM being used on target for a CPU and most likely always above that provided for by a GPU. So why didn't artforz do this in the first place?
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July 21, 2012, 06:49:29 AM |
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lets say they are "easy" to make......it will cost millions for production to start.
I answered my own question in the android miner thread. even running the optimized neon code from pooler an a9 isn't power competitive. still, settings for scrypt using 32-128mb would have been better I think -- gpus have faster ram than most any other consumer or industry device. edit: okay, sorry to be OT but if you wanted to make it CPU mining only, why wouldn't you just set the memory requirement to be 1 gigabyte per thread? Most computers right now have 4-16GB of RAM --> 4-16 threads, which would be terrible on a GPU with only 1-2GB of RAM. You could make the blockchain halving occur every 18 months and then with the blockchain halving increase the amount of RAM required by 2 eg (1GB -> 2GB). In accordance with Moore's law, that would keep the quantity of RAM being used on target for a CPU and most likely always above that provided for by a GPU. So why didn't artforz do this in the first place? well if u start another chain that does make mining only feasible for cpus im sure you will have many interested parties wanting to help the project
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July 21, 2012, 06:56:02 AM |
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well if u start another chain that does make mining only feasible for cpus im sure you will have many interested parties wanting to help the project That is a technical impossibility.
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July 21, 2012, 07:15:33 AM |
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well if u start another chain that does make mining only feasible for cpus im sure you will have many interested parties wanting to help the project That is a technical impossibility. And of course you are the "know it all". So please elaborate...
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July 21, 2012, 07:23:52 AM |
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well if u start another chain that does make mining only feasible for cpus im sure you will have many interested parties wanting to help the project That is a technical impossibility. And of course you are the "know it all". So please elaborate... I was under the impression Luke Jr didn't like Alt chains
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July 21, 2012, 07:35:09 AM Last edit: July 21, 2012, 08:32:27 AM by ckolivas |
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GIT TREE UP FOR THE BRAVE! (This is not remotely a final release candidate) https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/tree/newscryptBe aware that bad parameters will almost routinely crash your GPUs and there is no easy way to know what will and won't work. --lookup-gap <arg> Set GPU lookup gap for scrypt mining, comma separated --thread-concurrency <arg> Set GPU thread concurrency for scrypt mining, comma separated --scrypt Use the scrypt algorithm for mining (litecoin only) For the 7970s I used the following: --scrypt --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 8192 -g 4 -I 13 Don't go above intensity 13. Blow yourselves away and be prepared for many reboots.... edit: No there is no windows binary as yet...
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Tachikoma
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July 21, 2012, 08:25:42 AM |
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I have been playing around with it on my 6800. The good news: No crashes just yet! The bad news, I can't get it to hash matching my reaper config as much as I can. ./cgminer --scrypt --url lc.ozco.in:9332 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 6144 --userpass Something.other:orsomething
[2012-07-21 10:21:57] Started cgminer 2.5.0 [2012-07-21 10:21:58] Probing for an alive pool [2012-07-21 10:21:58] Long-polling activated for http://lc.ozco.in:9332/LP [2012-07-21 10:21:58] Pool 0 http://lc.ozco.in:9332 alive [2012-07-21 10:21:58] Disabling extra threads due to dynamic mode. [2012-07-21 10:21:58] Tune dynamic intensity with --gpu-dyninterval [2012-07-21 10:21:58] Rejected 097da80a.83f4e600 GPU 0 (target-miss) [2012-07-21 10:21:58] Rejected 3cb45b47.b230be19 GPU 0 (target-miss) [2012-07-21 10:21:59] Pool 0 communication failure, caching submissions [2012-07-21 10:21:59] Pool 0 communication resumed, submitting work [2012-07-21 10:21:59] Rejected 44a60e0c.b480ab39 GPU 0 (target-miss) [2012-07-21 10:21:59] Pool 0 communication failure, caching submissions [2012-07-21 10:21:59] Pool 0 communication resumed, submitting work [2012-07-21 10:21:59] Rejected 4283d0ef.0d61d08c GPU 0 (target-miss) [2012-07-21 10:21:59] Pool 0 communication failure, caching submissionsSegmentation fault (core dumped)
If anybody can get it to work on a 6800 please let me know your settings. ckolivas: Can I somehow get some debug information for you, or is that not necessary at this point.
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July 21, 2012, 08:30:20 AM |
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Don't go over intensity 13. Other than that, you're all on your own to experiment. It is slightly different to raper[sic] so it will need different parameters.
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July 21, 2012, 08:41:48 AM Last edit: July 21, 2012, 09:27:07 AM by Tachikoma |
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Forgetting about reaper settings actually helped and it boots properly now. Problem now is all my shares are rejected, I will try to mess around with them till I get some accepted shares EditGot working settings on my 6800: ./cgminer --scrypt -I 11 -g 1 --url lc.ozco.in:9332 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 2048 --userpass Someone.something:orother
- Setting the thread-concurrency higher will segfault the app.
- Setting intensity higher then 11 will result in more invalid shares then valid once
- Setting lookup-gap of 1 will segfault the app
- Setting lookup-gap over 2 will slow down the mhash
At these settings I'm mining at 145Mhash, which is 55Mhash slower then reaper for me at the moment. Waiting to hear other members experiences.
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July 21, 2012, 10:38:31 AM |
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Uploading a win32 build, give me a few. I think we should make a thread for bug reports/best settings/etc and leave this thread for the discussion only, so its not clogged with the bug reports that are about to flow in. Edit: win32: http://www.mediafire.com/?8mztfftmwcl0bqcIncludes the required .dll files.
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July 21, 2012, 10:44:11 AM |
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By the way I think I can improve marginally on the kernel with time, but for the moment, it is what it is...
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Tittiez
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July 21, 2012, 10:49:59 AM Last edit: July 21, 2012, 11:01:31 AM by Tittiez |
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Well have my bug report, it seems setting the concurrency too high gives a: Error: clSetKernelArg of all params failed.
I can't go any higher then 3200 for the concurrency. My 5770 pulls 130kh/s My 6850 pulls 170kh/s (The above is also without overclocks) cgminer --scrypt -o x -u x -p x --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 3200 -I 13 -g 4
Its a start! Edit: With some small overclocks: Seeing cgminer mine scrypt, its like a dream.
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July 21, 2012, 11:02:34 AM |
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I'm not taking any "bug reports", only what works. Try lower threads for higher concurrencies and vice versa and so on. All combinations that worked on raper consider irrelevant on this code.
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Tittiez
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July 21, 2012, 11:05:06 AM |
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I'm not taking any "bug reports", only what works. Try lower threads for higher concurrencies and vice versa and so on. All combinations that worked on raper consider irrelevant on this code.
Nice to know, I will try that.
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July 21, 2012, 12:18:31 PM |
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thx for releasing ckolivas
played around a little max i could get was
420 total kh/s on a 5830 and 5850 in a pc
where as reaper gets 563 kh/s total
i will play around with it later thx again for releasing it
thx for compiling a windows build Tittiez
--thread-concurrency 8192 -I 13 -g 1 were my settings if i set - g any higher it would slow to 16kh/s and i also tried 6144 and 3200 for concurrency
hope this helps others
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July 21, 2012, 12:29:01 PM Last edit: July 21, 2012, 12:47:41 PM by abbeytim |
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excuse the solidcoin icon too thats from way back one question do you have share threads 18 default i know thats what i have in reaper im not a programer so was just wondering
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abbeytim
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July 21, 2012, 12:51:28 PM |
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heres reaper for comparison
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