Post
Topic
Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Open Source XPM (Primecoin) GPU Miner & Pool xpmforall.org
by
matt6412
on 17/03/2019, 00:02:00 UTC
 Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley    Thanks for the update! going to load into my miners now and check out the speed increase!


New version xpmclient 10.3 available. Links and SHA256:

AMD/Windows: http://coinsforall.io/distr/xpmclient-opencl-10.3-win64.zip f9e28801fc5d165f9dfda223bffc90785eccb56e4c224fba8f19bba1e7a1154e
NVidia/Windows: http://coinsforall.io/distr/xpmclient-cuda-10.3-win64.zip 3bb741ea369097e84ebb914f5f937f38a2638ebb4c096e7ee21713909e0682d4
AMD/Linux: http://coinsforall.io/distr/xpmclient-opencl-10.3-linux.tar.gz cb514c8c2092b2cb0e3cf0043fa94a2c8837fd77845d2f5b2cdc45444657bdd2
NVidia/Linux: http://coinsforall.io/distr/xpmclient-cuda-10.3-linux.tar.gz 1135c6a07e75b22213ca3be3c00800f48ddc366060a1ed9899ba444f40e072ba

Quote
1. Speedup:
AMD Radeon RX Vega: +15% or more!
All NVidia GPUs: 5-10%
Other GPUs: 0-3% depends on OS, drivers, etc.

2. NVidia version uses CUDA 10.0, RTX2xxx series support added
3. Deploy script added, everybody can build xpmclient binaries using docker (look contrib directory https://github.com/eXtremal-ik7/xpmclient/tree/version/zcash/contrib)
4. Protocol changed.
Previous versions of xpmclient receives signal on every new block incoming, ask pool about work and receive answer from pool (Three ZeroMQ messages). New version protocol include work into "signal" message. For connect to old servers, use -c argument:

xpmclient -c

5. Some minor bug fixed
6. Logging added (see file miner-YYYY-MM-DD.log in miner directory)