Topic: Algorithmically placed FPGA miner: 255MH/s/chip, supports all known boards - page 14. (Read 119429 times)
September 14, 2012, 07:19:35 AM
Can I ask for a small favor? Can anybody send me an urjtag ver. 2027 on email? Thanks in advance.
September 06, 2012, 09:25:32 PM
Hrm im suffering from a strange issue
java.io.IOException: you forgot to upload the bitstream to the FPGA
java.io.IOException: you forgot to upload the bitstream to the FPGA
You need to power-cycle the board while disconnected from USB. In other words, unplug both the power and USB at the same time, then plug them back in.
This is a "feature" of the ztex USB chip/code. Stuff like this is the reason why I am so adamant about not throwing any more of my time down the black hole of debugging other peoples' proprietary USB interfaces.
September 05, 2012, 08:30:58 AM
Hrm im suffering from a strange issue ... One day (even before 1.10) I got this message and I can't get around it.
Its not the board (been runing ztex at 240+/1.4 fine). Won't run TML again no matter what.
Code:
java -Xbootclasspath/a:ZtexBTCMiner-120221.jar -jar tml-1.10.jar ztex:0 host
_________________________________________________________________________
Tricone Mining Logic, host software v1.10
IF YOU EXPERIENCE HIGH ERROR RATES: try running just one ring at a
time (e.g. use 'ztex:0:0.0' on command line instead of 'ztex:0').
If each ring works error free on its own, but you get errors when
running all three, it means your power supply is sagging.
adding work source host
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Here is a list of the devices that Ztex's Java code claims it can see:
0: bus=002 device=14 (`014') ID=221a:100
Manufacturer="ZTEX" Product="btcminer for ZTEX FPGA Modules" SerialNumber="04A346E225"
productID=10.13.1.1 fwVer=0 ifVer=1
If your board is not on the list, please contact him and tell him to fix his code.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0 ] found new board ztex:0
[ztex:0 ] found new chip
[ztex:0 ] programming FPGA with bitstream kreisel
starting long poll thread
[ztex:0 ] done programming FPGA
H:0 X:0 E:0 T:10s | H:0 E:0 A:0 R:0 T:10s
java.io.IOException: you forgot to upload the bitstream to the FPGA
at com.triconemining.board.Ztex$ZtexChip.write(Ztex.java:206)
at com.triconemining.board.Ztex$ZtexChip.scan(Ztex.java:191)
at com.triconemining.board.MiningChip.read(MiningChip.java:52)
at com.triconemining.miner.ChipWrapper.checkMagicNumber(ChipWrapper.java:294)
at com.triconemining.miner.ChipWrapper.(ChipWrapper.java:54)
at com.triconemining.miner.BoardWrapper.getChip(BoardWrapper.java:49)
at com.triconemining.miner.BoardWrapper.run_(BoardWrapper.java:101)
at com.triconemining.miner.BoardWrapper.run(BoardWrapper.java:73)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Its not the board (been runing ztex at 240+/1.4 fine). Won't run TML again no matter what.
September 05, 2012, 06:22:01 AM
I have chrisp's code, so if somebody gives me remote access to a linux box with an Enterpoint board attached to it, I will integrate his code and make it part of the next release.
Is Windows ok, too?Maybe as a last resort. I got an offer of access to an Ubuntu machine, so it looks like I'm set for now.
September 05, 2012, 04:19:58 AM
TML-1.10 has been released.
This includes a new bitstream, kreisel, which is a major performance improvement over all previous bitstreams. I will post exact numbers after letting my mine run overnight.
Please also post how to force urjtag to work. I'm trying few days now and no luck to download SVN 2027 or apply patch to it. I know, dowload linux or Cygwin and compile yourself, well I cannot. I can comunicate with Amontec JTAGkey and thats all what achieved so far. No luck with xilinx platform cable USB This includes a new bitstream, kreisel, which is a major performance improvement over all previous bitstreams. I will post exact numbers after letting my mine run overnight.
I have Lancelot, that is compatible with Icarus. As I can see no one have confirmed that your bitstream is working with it. I belive it's that complicated urjtag thing. You're loosing alot of hashpower becuse of that.
September 05, 2012, 03:23:53 AM
I have chrisp's code, so if somebody gives me remote access to a linux box with an Enterpoint board attached to it, I will integrate his code and make it part of the next release.
Is Windows ok, too? September 05, 2012, 12:10:44 AM
TML-1.10 has been released.
This includes a new bitstream, kreisel, which is a major performance improvement over all previous bitstreams. I will post exact numbers after letting my mine run overnight.
This includes a new bitstream, kreisel, which is a major performance improvement over all previous bitstreams. I will post exact numbers after letting my mine run overnight.
September 03, 2012, 11:06:18 PM
I have chrisp's code, so if somebody gives me remote access to a linux box with an Enterpoint board attached to it, I will integrate his code and make it part of the next release.
For secure communications, you can always get my current PGP key from namecoin:
namecoind name_scan p/eldentyrell 1
For secure communications, you can always get my current PGP key from namecoin:
namecoind name_scan p/eldentyrell 1
September 03, 2012, 06:49:30 PM
Also, any news on compatibility with Enterpoint-Hardware? Last post sounded promising, but now it got silent.
At least it's no longer that urgent because 200+ MH/s bitstreams are now available... But I would like to try TML nonetheless.
At least it's no longer that urgent because 200+ MH/s bitstreams are now available... But I would like to try TML nonetheless.
September 02, 2012, 08:03:10 PM
Hello
I would like to start a relationship with your organization and mine, to start moving forward with making the ModMiner Quad able to mine with your bitstream. Ive got some very talented programmers on my team, that could help you out - and develop some cool stuff and make a whole new (and large) group of customers able to mine with your tricone bitstream. A collaberation between the two of us could benefit both of our projects, I will contact you via email, hopefully we can get together with you and my team and put together a game plan.
Thanks Eldentyrell
-Tom
Any word on this collaboration?
August 23, 2012, 08:44:26 PM
Anything new on enterpoint boards? I can give you a remote connection to a board to test with if you need one.
August 23, 2012, 11:29:19 AM
Hey,
Just got myself 10 mins to try this out, seems to be working fine except I don't see much of a difference in actual share count per period when compared to same voltage/cooling and ztex firmware.
Just got myself 10 mins to try this out, seems to be working fine except I don't see much of a difference in actual share count per period when compared to same voltage/cooling and ztex firmware.
Well, the latest batch of bitstreams (J series) is a tad slower than H series.
ET: Any new bitstreams to try out yet?
August 20, 2012, 06:39:29 AM
Hey,
Just got myself 10 mins to try this out, seems to be working fine except I don't see much of a difference in actual share count per period when compared to same voltage/cooling and ztex firmware.
Still, there is one small issue with the pool URL parser that I'd like to note (has probably been mentioned before as it is obvious, but I couldn't find anything), and that's the usage of @ in the username (deepbit at least does this), so "http://[email protected]:[email protected]:8332" will not be a valid pool url (at least on tml-1.5) because it parses "mail.com:password@pit..." as server address.
Just got myself 10 mins to try this out, seems to be working fine except I don't see much of a difference in actual share count per period when compared to same voltage/cooling and ztex firmware.
Still, there is one small issue with the pool URL parser that I'd like to note (has probably been mentioned before as it is obvious, but I couldn't find anything), and that's the usage of @ in the username (deepbit at least does this), so "http://[email protected]:[email protected]:8332" will not be a valid pool url (at least on tml-1.5) because it parses "mail.com:password@pit..." as server address.
August 14, 2012, 10:24:05 PM
Has Chrisp contacted you yet? or you him? The best bitstream now is getting 200 mh/s chip so a nice 55 mh/s boost could make some good btc for my 100 chips.
Yes, he has contacted me and has given me his code. Unfortunately this is just about the worst possible time in terms of me having free time to integrate it -- I have zero availability until a week from today.
In return for his code I'm sending him 25% of the commissions earned from enterpoint board users. This is a standing offer for anybody else out there thinking of implementing support for any other boards' proprietary interfaces. But your code has to be good -- the offer doesn't apply to steaming piles. It must be written in Java, no exceptions. If you need to use any third-party libraries you must check with me first (before you spend a lot of time on this). JNI is very strongly discouraged; using a java.io.Process to talk to some native-code utility (like urjtag) is strongly preferred.
Hello
I would like to start a relationship with your organization and mine, to start moving forward with making the ModMiner Quad able to mine with your bitstream. Ive got some very talented programmers on my team, that could help you out - and develop some cool stuff and make a whole new (and large) group of customers able to mine with your tricone bitstream. A collaberation between the two of us could benefit both of our projects, I will contact you via email, hopefully we can get together with you and my team and put together a game plan.
Thanks Eldentyrell
-Tom
August 14, 2012, 01:10:19 AM
TML-1.05 is out. Two new bitstreams "jensen" and "jaskowski". Upgrading is very strongly encouraged. More details when I am no longer under the gun.
August 14, 2012, 01:09:36 AM
Has Chrisp contacted you yet? or you him? The best bitstream now is getting 200 mh/s chip so a nice 55 mh/s boost could make some good btc for my 100 chips.
Yes, he has contacted me and has given me his code. Unfortunately this is just about the worst possible time in terms of me having free time to integrate it -- I have zero availability until a week from today.
In return for his code I'm sending him 25% of the commissions earned from enterpoint board users. This is a standing offer for anybody else out there thinking of implementing support for any other boards' proprietary interfaces. But your code has to be good -- the offer doesn't apply to steaming piles. It must be written in Java, no exceptions. If you need to use any third-party libraries you must check with me first (before you spend a lot of time on this). JNI is very strongly discouraged; using a java.io.Process to talk to some native-code utility (like urjtag) is strongly preferred.
August 13, 2012, 08:30:00 PM
If ChrisP releases his USB driver code and somebody gives me SSH access to a Linux machine with an Enterpoint board attached to it I can take over the debugging/troubleshooting from here on out. Apparently he has gotten the board-specific communication path from the host to the chip working reliably, and that's the only part I am stubborn about not doing. There are also quite a lot of tricks for working around this DCM weirdness, but the ones we haven't tried yet require rebuilding the bitstream (I can do that).
Has Chrisp contacted you yet? or you him? The best bitstream now is getting 200 mh/s chip so a nice 55 mh/s boost could make some good btc for my 100 chips.
August 12, 2012, 09:22:52 PM
If you're running a "g-series" bitstream (i.e. its name starts with the letter "g"), please try moving up to one of the h-series.
If this causes problems for you, or results in noticeably reduced performance, please contact me.
Thanks.
If this causes problems for you, or results in noticeably reduced performance, please contact me.
Thanks.
August 10, 2012, 10:14:13 PM
TML-1.04 is released. No new bitstreams but a major improvement in efficiency in the code that fetches new work. You should now see actual hashrates much closer to the expected hashrate.
10.Aug.2012 Release v1.04
add monitors for time spent on various network tasks
performance/efficiency improvements in getwork
add check_dcm_lock, freeze_dcm, reset_dcm_if_lock_lost
fix leaf-clock-mux settings for rph
10.Aug.2012 Release v1.04
add monitors for time spent on various network tasks
performance/efficiency improvements in getwork
add check_dcm_lock, freeze_dcm, reset_dcm_if_lock_lost
fix leaf-clock-mux settings for rph
August 10, 2012, 05:52:46 PM
If ChrisP releases his USB driver code and somebody gives me SSH access to a Linux machine with an Enterpoint board attached to it I can take over the debugging/troubleshooting from here on out. Apparently he has gotten the board-specific communication path from the host to the chip working reliably, and that's the only part I am stubborn about not doing. There are also quite a lot of tricks for working around this DCM weirdness, but the ones we haven't tried yet require rebuilding the bitstream (I can do that).
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