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Re: [ANN] Bminer: a fast Equihash miner for CUDA GPUs
by
cpmcgrat
on 05/12/2017, 22:16:31 UTC
Bminer is a highly optimized Equihash miner that runs on modern NVIDIA GPUs (Maxwell and Pascal, i.e. GPUs that have compute capability 5.0 or above). Bminer is the fastest publicly available Equihash miners today. It features a completely restructured algorithm to maximize the stream processor occupancy and the instruction pipeline efficiency. It realizes the full potentials of Pascal GPU cards.

Bminer also comes with REST APIs to facilitate production deployments (e.g., mining farms).

Similar to other miners, Bminer contains 2% devfee.

Features

Fast

  • 735-745 Sol/s on GTX 1080Ti
  • 450-460 Sol/s on GTX 1070
  • 315-325 Sol/s on GTX 1060
  • On stock settings

Secure and reliable

  • SSL support
  • Automatic reconnects to recover from transient network failures
  • Automatic restarts if GPUs hang

Operation friendly

  • Comes with REST APIs to facilitate production deployments


Quickstart

To mine Zcash on Windows on nanopool:

  • Download and extract Bminer into a folder (e.g. C:\bminer)
  • Edit mine.bat and change the address to the desired Zcash address that Bminer mines towards.
  • Open command line prompt and run mine.bat.
  • Enjoy mining  Smiley

Please see https://www.bminer.me for advanced usages, APIs and updates.

Downloads

Windows x64:

https://www.bminercontent.com/releases/bminer-v2.0.0-24861a7-amd64.zip

SHA256 Checksum: aa76348d8dc7ca931945c5de2e8bd130ded3eb2bbd615b70c8be4e05f9abbfe2




Just verified the claims here. I'm getting 500 h/s compared to 480 h/s with EWBF 0.3.4b. However, the code appears to be very early-stage in its development. At the same clock rate where EWBF is stable (6x 1070 - +99CPU +520MEM), this script crashed consistently after 1-2 hours.

Also, it would be very nice to see round trip time (RTT) on the submitted shares. It is difficult to tell if the program was hanging or not before submitting a share.