Re: [ANN] cudaMiner & ccMiner CUDA based mining applications [Windows/Linux/MacOSX]
Minor update + Win binary: https://github.com/tsiv/ccminer-cryptonight/releases
No longer wasting CPU cycles on busy waiting, some checks on the initial memory allocations before getting to work and per device launch settings.
Seems like we have a lot of Win 8 users with problems, but apparently it works for some. It is a mystery, my money is still on hitting TDR. If that's the case http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2665946 will provide a workaround. It's not pretty but increasing the timeout from the default 2 seconds to something like 5 seconds shouldn't hurt anyone. The real fix would be breaking up the kernel into smaller pieces that are run in sequence as opposed to one huge kernel that does the whole hash in one go and takes near forever (well, over 2 seconds) to do it. Looking into that, should be relatively easy. A compute 2.0/2.1 version shouldn't be too hard either but I'm not sure if they're going to perform too well and worse than bad is... very bad?
No longer wasting CPU cycles on busy waiting, some checks on the initial memory allocations before getting to work and per device launch settings.
Seems like we have a lot of Win 8 users with problems, but apparently it works for some. It is a mystery, my money is still on hitting TDR. If that's the case http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2665946 will provide a workaround. It's not pretty but increasing the timeout from the default 2 seconds to something like 5 seconds shouldn't hurt anyone. The real fix would be breaking up the kernel into smaller pieces that are run in sequence as opposed to one huge kernel that does the whole hash in one go and takes near forever (well, over 2 seconds) to do it. Looking into that, should be relatively easy. A compute 2.0/2.1 version shouldn't be too hard either but I'm not sure if they're going to perform too well and worse than bad is... very bad?