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Re: EWBF's Cuda Equihash Miner 0.6
by
shrewdacumen
on 22/11/2018, 16:50:34 UTC
EWBF Cuda Equihash Miner v0.6

Greetings!
It is based on my last Zcash miner and almost completely repeats it.
Now closer to the topic:
*  Parameter "solver" is disabled.
*  Solver for equihash 200,9 has been deleted.
*  Solvers for Equihash 192,7, 144,5, 96,5 and 210,9 has been added
*  Added timestamps in the output to the screen and to the log file.
*  Argument --algo is added, allow you to select Equihash variant allowed values 144_5, 192_7, 96_5, 210_9, zhash, aion. This parameter is mandatory.
*  Argument --pers is added, allow you to set personalization string (8 charachters) for equihash algorithm. This parameter is optional. Equihash by default uses the string "ZcashPoW", many other coins also use this string, but not all, some coins use their own string, and these are all differences, so for some coins, you need to set the --pers option to the required string, for example, Zero coin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3310714  uses the string "ZERO_PoW" and for mining this coin you need to pass arguments --algo 192_7 --pers ZERO_PoW ....
Fee is presented and by default 2%, argument --fee is presented too.

v0.6
* Fixed situation where the api socket did not close during the exit..
* Increased time-outs during stratum authorization and subscription.
* 144_5, 192_7, 96_5 now faster.
* 144_5 now uses less vram, ~1.63GB (This should be useful for 2GB cards).

v0.5
* 96_5 fixed the problem with cropped performance on fast (1080ti, Titan) gpu.
* 144_5 Speed up by 3-15% depends on the hardware.
* 210_9 Speed up by 2%.
* 210_9 Fixed "low difficulty shares" problem, on Aion pools.
* 210_9 can now be used via --algo 210_9, I recommend using --algo aion for Aion mining, this will help you avoid problems with the wrong personalization string.
* Added option --intensity, this option will not increase performance, only slightly reduce the gpu usage, if you set it to 1. Works like --cuda_devices argument,
   for example: --intensity 64 64 1 64 64 will apply the intensity 1 to the device with id 2.
 Special features (These features are added for specific projects,do not use these parameters on conventional pools):
* Added option --pers auto, Allow the pool to manage the personalization string. (Profit switching). (http://zergpool.com)
* Added option --algo 144_5_EXCC_D For ExchangeCoin.

Known issues (mostly will be fixed)
*  Equihash 96_5 Can be slower in cuda 8 versions.
*  Performance counters may display an incorrect speed during reconnection.

Expected performance:

96_5 uses ~1.6GB vram
 1050ti   ~7.8 KS/s  
 1060    ~14 KS/s
 1070    ~20 KS/s
 1080    ~25 KS/s
 1080ti    ~37 KS/s

192_7 uses ~2.5GB vram
 1050ti    ~8 S/s
 1060    ~15 S/s
 1070    ~22 S/s
 1080    ~24 S/s
 1080ti    ~35 S/s

144_5 uses ~1.63GB vram
 1050ti   ~18 S/s  
 1060    ~30 S/s
 1070    ~45 S/s
 1080    ~50 S/s
 1080ti    ~75 S/s

210_9(aion) uses 1.2G vram
 1050ti   ~75 S/s
 1060    ~130 S/s
 1070    ~190 S/s
 1080    ~210 S/s
 1080ti  ~320 S/s

Please note, that this is initial release, and it can be baggy or incompatible with many coins or pools.
Miner compiled with cuda 9.1 and cuda 8.0 for x64 linux and windows. Support devices with compute capability 5.0 and higher.

Windiws    https://mega.nz/#F!fsAlmZQS!CwVgFfBDduQI-CbwVkUEpQ
Linux        https://mega.nz/#F!3xYlSJDK!kG4kVLg1arbBuq1dd8u9aA

Linux        https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jUhXYysli_x6MH_wQ9lY07c68Ze7WM8g
Windiws   https://drive.google.com/open?id=1anfDRDVc_Fs_NceuZNuDK8HWZgcCdM3A

Usage examples (batch files):
Basic Example:
Code:
miner --algo 144_5 --server SERVER_ADDR --port PORT --user USER --pass PASSWORD

Failover pools up to 8 pools:
Code:
miner --algo 144_5 --server SERV1 --port PORT1 --user USER1 --pass PASS1 --server SERV2 --port PORT2 --user USER2 --pass PASS2



No miner for MacOS with External GPU connected?
I test other miners on macOS EGPU setting: it is stabler and better in hash-rate than on other OS.  Please develop the miner on macOS with EGPU.
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Re: lolMiner-144 0.38 Preview, Equihash 144.5 for AMD & Nvidia, Linux & Windows
by
shrewdacumen
on 04/10/2018, 09:08:51 UTC
I installed this with joy today since it's been long waited solution for AMD cards.
I have both cards Nvidia, AMD installed on my rig.

It worked well with some limitation, compared with the performance on nVidia cards 'Ewbf-Zhash' gives.
When I set Platform = "Auto", only my 2 nVidia cards (GTX 1080) worked, not another 4 cards which are AMD cards. RX580.

Thus I had to switch from:
"DEFAULTS" : {
      "PLATFORM"         : "AUTO",
      "DEVICES"         : "AUTO"    
   },

to

"DEFAULTS" : {
      "PLATFORM"         : "1",
      "DEVICES"         : "AUTO"    
   },

and then I could manage to mine on 4 AMD cards, RX 580.

This looks a kind of bug.

And comparing the performance 'Ewbf-Zhash' gives,
It is way too far from being good.
1060 gives 29 sol/s for BTCZ.
1080 53 Sol/s as the followings:

11:45:46 -----------+--------------+
| GPU | Power usage |  Efficiency  |
+-----+-------------+--------------+
|  0  |    119W     |  0.24 Sol/W  |
|  1  |    186W     |  0.27 Sol/W  |
+-----+-------------+--------------+
11:46:16 Temp: GPU0: 75C GPU1: 73C
11:46:16 GPU0: 29 Sol/s GPU1: 53 Sol/s
11:46:16 Total speed: 82 Sol/s
11:46:16 -----------+--------------+
| GPU | Power usage |  Efficiency  |
+-----+-------------+--------------+
|  0  |    117W     |  0.25 Sol/W  |
|  1  |    185W     |  0.29 Sol/W  |
+-----+-------------+--------------+
11:46:46 Temp: GPU0: 75C GPU1: 73C
11:46:46 GPU0: 30 Sol/s GPU1: 53 Sol/s
11:46:46 Total speed: 83 Sol/s
11:46:46 -----------+--------------+
| GPU | Power usage |  Efficiency  |
+-----+-------------+--------------+
|  0  |    103W     |  0.29 Sol/W  |
|  1  |    184W     |  0.29 Sol/W  |
+-----+-------------+--------------+


however, each 4 RX580 registers
only 7 - 10 sol/s as the followings:

Average speed (5s): 8.79824 sol/s | 7.9984 sol/s | 9.79804 sol/s | 8.79824 sol/s Total: 35.3929 sol/s
Average speed (5s): 8.39832 sol/s | 8.9982 sol/s | 5.9988 sol/s | 11.5977 sol/s Total: 34.993 sol/s
Average speed (5s): 7.39852 sol/s | 11.1978 sol/s | 9.39812 sol/s | 8.79824 sol/s Total: 36.7926 sol/s
Average speed (5s): 7.19856 sol/s | 9.59808 sol/s | 9.19816 sol/s | 10.3979 sol/s Total: 36.3927 sol/s
Average speed (5s): 8.39832 sol/s | 8.9982 sol/s | 9.19816 sol/s | 8.9982 sol/s Total: 35.5929 sol/s
Average speed (5s): 9.79804 sol/s | 9.59808 sol/s | 10.9978 sol/s | 7.79844 sol/s Total: 38.1924 sol/s
Average speed (5s): 10.5979 sol/s | 8.79824 sol/s | 9.19816 sol/s | 10.9978 sol/s Total: 39.5921 sol/s
Average speed (5s): 8.59828 sol/s | 7.19856 sol/s | 8.19836 sol/s | 9.19816 sol/s Total: 33.1934 sol/s

total hash rate of 4 x RX580 cards which lolMiner registers amounts to less than that of GTX 1080 which Ewbf-Zhash does.

However, in future it will, I think, improve greatly.
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Re: ALLMINE INC - FPGA Cryptominer
by
shrewdacumen
on 07/09/2018, 18:57:28 UTC
I'm interested in buying 1 unit of this FPGA Cryptominer card and found all buying options ran dry now, seeing  https://fpga.land/.

How can I buy it from you? (This is from South Korea.)  Is it still valid unit now or better, newer unit on the way soon?
(I have no cryptocurrencies yet.)


Thanks in advance.