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Re: [ANN] [XDAG] Dagger - new cryptocurrency
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beluga
on 29/01/2018, 06:15:25 UTC
First beta-version of GPU miner is released.
Link to download https://github.com/jonano614/DaggerGpuMiner/releases
Source codes https://github.com/jonano614/DaggerGpuMiner

GPU-miner is based on OpenCL. You need to have your account address and storage folder to use it. Most of modern video cards is applicable. Current implementation is not optimized, probably hashrate can be increased in about 80% further. My AMD Radeon R9 270x makes 240 MH/s now.
Also miner supports CPU-mining. But current implementation is slower than official wallet (v845+).
Currently only Windows is supported. Version for Linux is in development. If somebody wants to make version for Mac OS - you can write me.

How to use: unpack archive to a folder. Copy storage folder to the folder with miner. Create .bat file with necessary launch parameters. Use it.

Launch parameters:
1) GPU benchmark: DaggerGpuMiner.exe -G -M
2) GPU mining: DaggerGpuMiner.exe -G -a -p
3) CPU mining: DaggerGpuMiner.exe -cpu -a -p -t N     (N - is a number of threads)

Different features and optional parametes:
1) "-h" - show help
2) you can list all available devices using parameters "-list-devices -G"
3) by default GPU mining is performed only on the first OpenCL device. You can specify several devices using parameter "-opencl-devices 0 1 3". Use your device numbers instead of "0 1 3". Also use can use parameter "-d " there is count of used devices.

Also I recommend you to place "pause" command in the end of the .bat file.

If you have question, suggestion or you want to participate in develpment you can write me here in PM or on email jonano614@gmail.com.
Further closest plans:
1) get rid of storage folder
2) rewrite logging
3) static position for hash rate
4) optimization of OpenCL kernel

PS: if everything works fine you can support author: XDAG  gKNRtSL1pUaTpzMuPMznKw49ILtP6qX3


I have listed devices and I got 3, the internal Intel, the Internal 1060 and the external (egpu) 1080, but I cannot select other than the Intel, have tried with opencl-device x / -opencl-devices x / -d x with no luck.
So if I do -d 1, or -d 2, always start mining with the device 0. Any help? :-)

My listed devices:
Listing OpenCL devices.
FORMAT: [platformID] [deviceID] deviceName
  • Intel(R) HD Graphics 530
       CL_DEVICE_TYPE: GPU
        CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE: 6816858112
        CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE: 2147483647
        CL_DEVICE_MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZE: 256
[1]
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
       CL_DEVICE_TYPE: GPU
        CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE: 11811160064
        CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE: 2952790016
        CL_DEVICE_MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZE: 1024
[1] [1] GeForce GTX 1060
        CL_DEVICE_TYPE: GPU
        CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE: 6442450944
        CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE: 1610612736
        CL_DEVICE_MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZE: 1024