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Re: Improved scrypt miner for nvidia GPUs
by
ashpooler
on 18/12/2013, 08:35:39 UTC
I "implemented" your code into cpuminer on an EC2 yesterday and can confirm the 220kh/s. Very nice!  Smiley
Thanks for your work on this and for sharing.  Very Cool.

Although it seems to slow down over time but IIRC you mentioned that in the readme. After a restart of the miner it's running normal again.

Now if only cryptocurrencies all around wouldn't be crashing like no tomorrow right now...  Wink
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Re: Official Avalon mining rig clones thread from bitmine.ch (BATCH 1 & 2 SOLD OUT!)
by
ashpooler
on 12/06/2013, 07:51:24 UTC
[..]because they needed the original documents with the attorney's postille[...]
Yah, MtSux is slowly(?) getting worse than paypal when it comes to extending your limits / becoming trusted.

Quote from: giorgiomassa
Anyway, this won't affect the delivery of batch 2 as there's still time to get the chips and respect the promised delivery terms.  Smiley
Thank you, all I wanted to hear. Wink
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Re: USB ASIC ERUPTER - Setup & Config. BCG Miner, cgminer, Hubs "Oh Pi"!
by
ashpooler
on 11/06/2013, 06:38:09 UTC
don't mean to re-ask a question, but im holding 330 mh/s in my cgminer window, but when I check my pool stats page (coinotron.com) my reported hash rate is much lower at times and also much higher, ive seen it anywhere from 100kh to 500 kh/s

just wondering if that normal and reason behind it. thks


A pool can only calculate your hashrate through your actually submitted shares/time.
So it could vary quite a bit at times... should be normal as long as your payout is what you'd expect (or accepted shares).
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Re: USB ASIC ERUPTER - Setup & Config. BCG Miner, cgminer, Hubs "Oh Pi"!
by
ashpooler
on 10/06/2013, 14:22:38 UTC
Well hopefully the new version of cgminer (3.2.1) that has a significant bugfix for these devices will allow people to move to it instead of sticking to the old version.
Compiled it on my Pi and it looks like as if it does perform much better with lesser HW errors still on diff 1 (check my previous post). Also, no need for additional options just like with 3.2.0. Thanks ckolivas and kano for the fast cgminer updates. Here's an addition to my previous post to get my test build to 3.2.1. Stop cgminer and do this:

Code:
cd ~/src/cgminer
make clean
git pull
./autogen.sh
CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure --enable-bflsc --enable-icarus --enable-bitforce --enable-modminer --enable-ztex
make


What does this do?
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CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native"
CFLAGS is used to pass arguments to the compiler. In this case "-O2" for optimization (enables various optimization flags) of the generated code, "-Wall" enables various warning flags and "-march=" selects for which processor architecture you'd like to compile, "native" determines the processor type of the compiling machine.

You can find most flags explained i.e. here.
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Re: USB ASIC ERUPTER - Setup & Config. BCG Miner, cgminer, Hubs "Oh Pi"!
by
ashpooler
on 07/06/2013, 14:14:58 UTC
Oh yes, it's easy to take the lid off, pull off a jumper and plug your USB cable in where the Avalon's own FPGA controller plugs into it. I've run one off a PC for a while.
Heh, interesting (obviously I never had an Avalon in my hands or did a lot of research about 'em), very good to know. Thanks for sharing ckolivas. Smiley
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Re: USB ASIC ERUPTER - Setup & Config. BCG Miner, cgminer, Hubs "Oh Pi"!
by
ashpooler
on 07/06/2013, 10:28:54 UTC
You can also add --enable-avalon Smiley
If you plug the avalon into the USB port of whatever you are mining with
Would be interesting to see if an RPi could handle mining on an avalon Cheesy
LOL well the avalon itself is only a tplink 703 router and it averages ~20% CPU running an avalon, so the rpi should certainly be up to the task.
LUL... yeah, I saw the option but is it even possible to "circumvent" the hacked up tplink board they use (are the Avalon blades connected via USB)? But I too think a RPi should be more than sufficient, although Avalon added more RAM and stuff to the tplink board. I believe I even read that Bitmine.ch is planning to replace the tplink board with a RPi in their clones at a later time.
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Re: USB ASIC ERUPTER - Setup & Config. BCG Miner, cgminer, Hubs "Oh Pi"!
by
ashpooler
on 07/06/2013, 09:53:59 UTC
Well hopefully the new version of cgminer (3.2.1) that has a significant bugfix for these devices will allow people to move to it instead of sticking to the old version.
Compiled it on my Pi and it looks like as if it does perform much better with lesser HW errors still on diff 1 (check my previous post). Also, no need for additional options just like with 3.2.0. Thanks ckolivas and kano for the fast cgminer updates. Here's an addition to my previous post to get my test build to 3.2.1. Stop cgminer and do this:

Code:
cd ~/src/cgminer
make clean
git pull
./autogen.sh
CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native" ./configure --enable-bflsc --enable-icarus --enable-bitforce --enable-modminer --enable-ztex
make

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Re: [GB] USB ASIC miner - closed atm
by
ashpooler
on 07/06/2013, 09:29:19 UTC


genau den hub habe ich, und damit läuft das . ich habe aber ein normales pc-Netztteil mit 15 A Leistung, was den raspberry und den hub mit Strom versorgt
Der hub an sich funzt schon, hab die netzteile von BIGtec dran weil grad nichts anderes hier, die sind nicht durchgehend gleichwertig... und damit ungenügend. An einem kann ich 3 betreiben, annem anderen 5 .. naja, demnächst kommen die an eine pc-psu
Man, bei diesem China-Ramsch hätte ich Angst das es mit die Bude abfackelt, besonders wenn ich nochn stärkeres Netzteil dranhänge. Wink
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Re: USB ASIC ERUPTER - Setup & Config. BCG Miner, cgminer, Hubs "Oh Pi"!
by
ashpooler
on 06/06/2013, 21:02:13 UTC
Well for what it's worth, here are my results of building and testing cgminer 3.2.0 on a Raspberry Pi running MinePeon-2013-05-25 (all in all pretty straightforward). Please consider, as a test, I did all this as root which might not be the best choice if you want to "update" your Minepeon system with it later on.

Imagine I'm logged in through ssh, I did a system upgrade beforehand.
Code:
pacman -Syu

Then I got the sources from the repo and built cgminer (btw, you need at least "--enable-icarus" for the USB Block Erupter to be supported). It suggests a little different compile flags in the README, you might consider using those.
Code:
cd ~ ; mkdir src ; cd src
git clone https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer.git
cd cgminer
CFLAGS="-g -W -Wall" ./autogen.sh --enable-bflsc --enable-icarus --enable-bitforce --enable-modminer --enable-ztex
make

This should compile cgminer without errors obviously. Don't forget to stop any mining tool that might be running.
Code:
systemctl stop cgminer
systemctl stop bfgminer

Optional but lets start cgminer in a screen window, always nice.
Code:
screen

Then I just ran cgminer without any special options.
Code:
cd ~/src/cgminer
./cgminer -o http://: -u -p (or to set difficulty if supported by pool i.e. "d=2")

It threw some "comms error" msgs but after a sec all miners showed up and started hashing.  Cool

Here are my stats with a diff of 1 at start and 2 hours later (2 Lancelots and 5 USB Erupter). I still have to investigate the exceptionally high HW errors on 2 of the USB Erupters (But I got them too using the "build-in" versions of cgminer and bfgminer when I started hashing with these babys).

http://i.imgur.com/1e4HylS.png

http://i.imgur.com/R95uwGC.png

(seems cgminer sometimes reports wrong speeds like on BLT 1 in the 2nd pic, but that is sporadic and it is correct again after a short while, well here at least)

So all in all cgminer performs pretty nicely on my Pi. Thanks to the devs for all the effort they put into it!

Here's my setup: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195037.msg2388932#msg2388932
USB Hub I'm using (5V/3.5A): http://www.amazon.de/DeLock-Externer-USB-A-Buchse-Netzteil/dp/B002YCIPD6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8
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Re: [GB] USB ASIC miner - closed atm
by
ashpooler
on 06/06/2013, 19:34:40 UTC
IIRC the pictures on ebay were stolen from here. Sad

Was für einen HUB könnt Ihr für den Raspberry Pi empfehlen?
Er muß 6 USB Miner und auch den Pi versorgen können (möchte nur 1 Netzteil verwenden).
der wäre schön und hat gute Bewertungen (5 A), nur das Porto ist etwas hoch...
(bestellen wir mehrere gemeinsam?)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2417216,00.asp
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B9KOCYA
(oder gibt es eine Möglichkeit auch bei Amazon.COM in EU ohne Versandkosten zu bestellen?)
Hm, die sind auch nett. Genauso wie die Anker Teile bei dem 42 Miner Setup (so neat btw <3).
Weißt Du ob die mit dem Pi und z.B. Minepeon gut laufen?

EDIT: Damn, Pi's mögen zumindest keine Anker scheinbar.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220905
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Re: [GB] USB ASIC miner - closed atm
by
ashpooler
on 06/06/2013, 15:43:06 UTC
Was für einen HUB könnt Ihr für den Raspberry Pi empfehlen?
Habe diesen hier... hat wenigstens ein 3.5A Netzteil und versorgt 5 USB ASICs, 1 Lancelot (fällt nicht ins Gewicht) und einen USB Ventilator aber nicht den Pi (weil Ports voll) ganz gut. Er steht mit auf dieser Liste: http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals#Working_USB_Hubs

Weiss nicht ob dir das hilft. Wink
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Re: [GB] USB ASIC miner - closed atm
by
ashpooler
on 06/06/2013, 14:22:52 UTC
3.2.0  kennt aber den -S befehl nicht..... wer eine Idee ?
Habs noch nicht selbst getestet mit 3.2.0 aber werde es vermutlich heute abend auf einem Raspberry Pi.

Hier ist der Post von kano bzgl. Änderungen in 3.2.0:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220450.msg2324764#msg2324764

Laut diesem sind keine seriellen Treiber für Win mehr nötig (deinstallieren!) sondern läuft über zadig und ansonsten sollte cgminer 3.2.0 alle Devices selbst erkennen (kein -S mehr).

EDIT: Sorry, immer hilfreich wenn man den ganzen thread liest... 3.2.0 scheint wohl doch noch ein paar kleine Probleme zu haben. Werds trotzdem mal (zwar unter Linux) testen.
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Re: [GB] USB ASIC miner - closed atm
by
ashpooler
on 06/06/2013, 12:06:50 UTC
Got my 5 Erupter yesterday. Cheesy

Here's my setup. In hindsight I do like the Anker USB3.0 hub setup (the 50 ASICs one Cool) quite a bit and maybe I should have gone that way... Wouldn't be so cluttered but oh well.
2 Lancelot and 5 USB cattle brander happily hashing away at ~2,5Gh/s:

http://i.imgur.com/zW8sVpk.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ghNVMdd.jpg

Thanks a bunch to yxt for organizing this group-buy. Has been a real pleasure, kudos!  Smiley

Btw, is this the reason group-buys won't be necessary in the future you were talking about by any chance?
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Re: Avalon mining rig CLONES available for preoder (85+ GH/s), BATCH 1 SOLD OUT!
by
ashpooler
on 05/06/2013, 09:57:47 UTC
Why should I excuse your tone?  Huh I've not been verbally abusive in my comment to you.  Angry
No, you just have been patronizing me at what point I should have asked my questions.

Quote from: one4many
There is a chance that you loose your money with every business ... with this one, it is especially high ...
Makes you think doesn't it, coming from the guy who even took a visit to bitmine.ch's facilities to prove exactly that it is not and with their full refund gurantee how can there be any risk at all? Or did I miss something?

I just wondered how they plan on fulfilling 100+ more orders without an additional 40k+ of ASICs and hence my question (still unanswered and I wonder why nobody else of the batch #2 customers has asked this yet).

Quote from: one4many
So ..... go and rub your dick on something else to calm down.
BUMP! (the sound of your nickname dropping into my ignore list)
But yes, I have been quite the douche yesterday and would like to apologize for spewing nastiness (did I really make a "dick" reference? Oh lord...).
Especially to one4many and bitmine.ch, of course I appreciate the trip you made and the report. Normally I don't fly off the handle so easily but I was a liiittle stressed out yesterday and pretty on edge to put it this way.

All I can say is, my apologies again to all (which I guess you won't see since I made your ignore list).
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Re: Avalon mining rig CLONES available for preoder (85+ GH/s), BATCH 1 SOLD OUT!
by
ashpooler
on 04/06/2013, 13:50:42 UTC
I am in the same timezone as them and posted my questions the first time shortly after the preorder start.
Also, when I schedule the start of a preorder, especially for a high profile and sensitive item like this, I would factor in some time for customer questions and feedback.

You should have posted your questions 2 days before, when they announced that there is a 2nd batch coming.  Wink
And what difference please would that have made in your opinion? Did they loose their fingers or online access since then? What if I just saw this thread, had only a "few minutes" until batch #2 might be sold out and wanted to get in? Just because I preordered and intend to follow through (read: pay for it) I still do have some questions which would ease my mind and simply would like to get answered when I spend $7000 out front on a product.

And jeeez, get off your high horse, just because you rubbed dicks with the 2 guys doesn't mean you can command or propose when a customer can or should have asked questions about a product. Are you even a customer with them?

Sorry for my tone but I'm getting a little pissed now defending why, when or what I ask... to which I still haven't gotten an answer to.
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Re: Avalon mining rig CLONES available for preoder (85+ GH/s), BATCH 1 SOLD OUT!
by
ashpooler
on 04/06/2013, 09:29:06 UTC
I am in the same timezone as them and posted my questions the first time shortly after the preorder start.
Also, when I schedule the start of a preorder, especially for a high profile and sensitive item like this, I would factor in some time for customer questions and feedback.

Start was at 8 PM, I doubt they went to bed that early. Wink

In fact they should be right in their office hours right now and none of 'em is even online...
An answer to the question about EUR payments would be really nice because I need to wire the funds very soon now.

give them a break. After making a turnover of around 700.000 $ in a couple of hours, they probably opened a bottle of champagne (or Appenzeller) or two, and at this time just slowly start to creep out of their beds with heads like ballons.
Yeah, more like this I could imagine. Wink
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Re: Avalon mining rig CLONES available for preoder (85+ GH/s), BATCH 1 SOLD OUT!
by
ashpooler
on 04/06/2013, 07:12:47 UTC
Purchasing Batch#2 when Batch#1 hasn't shipped yet and paying with a Bank Transfer, to a Swiss bank account without escrow makes me laugh and cry at the same time.
Lol, don't say something like that, feeling raped more and more. Wink

Well, I guess starting a new batch of preorders and going offline/silent shortly after with open questions from customers might be an answer in itself...

Let me post them again...

You brought in 100,000 sFR and bought 10k Avalon ASICs which would cover preorder batch #1. So, did you bring in more money to order more ICs (at least 40k ASICs by my calcs) to cover batch #2 (which suddenly has over 3x more stock than the 1st)? Without touching preorder money so you can refund customers?

Second, can we pay the wiretransfer in EUR?

Don't get me wrong, I believe in you (*bites tongue*) and plan on wiring the money today in any case but would feel much more confident if there where more transparency and you would answer these questions.
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Re: Avalon mining rig CLONES available for preoder (85+ GH/s), BATCH 1 SOLD OUT!
by
ashpooler
on 03/06/2013, 19:07:31 UTC
Don't know if I should feel lucky or raped but I preordered one. HAH Cool

Hmmm, can you elaborate on "All sales are final"? I read this exact same wording "somewhere"...
Didn't you say you'd guarantee a refund whenever a customer requests one?

Hi there, yes it's refundable but we had to put that sentence in order to try to avoid (or at least reduce) the speculators that buy the units only to resell them on ebay, it means that you won't be able to change shipping or billing address once the order is placed.
Hey!
I see, thanks for clarifying that.
Just one more question if I may. Did you order more Avalon ASIC IC's because with 10k you can only cover preorder batch #1 if I count correctly.
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Re: Avalon mining rig CLONES available for preoder (85+ GH/s), BATCH 1 SOLD OUT!
by
ashpooler
on 03/06/2013, 18:52:38 UTC
Don't know if I should feel lucky or raped but I preordered one. HAH Cool

Hmmm, can you elaborate on "All sales are final"? I read this exact same wording "somewhere"...
Didn't you say you'd guarantee a refund whenever a customer requests one?

And would it be possible to pay the wiretransfer in EUR?
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Re: USB ASIC miner - closed
by
ashpooler
on 21/05/2013, 19:22:27 UTC
Lieferadresse grade per Mail geschickt!

And lolyum @ dinogenes