Topic: [ANN] AEON [2019-09-27: Upgrade to version 0.13.0.0 ASAP HF@1146200 Oct 25] - page 224. (Read 625666 times)

An important point: node v0.12 don't work. You must use node v0.10 else the compil fails.
With node v0.10 compiling and running the pool is ok. (Type node -v to check your node version)

Hi! I'm back at home. Today i will be busy with my day job (to explain my vacation at my office colleagues  ) but shortly i could active here.

I would love this info as well, I have a Dell R410 server machine that is pretty much idle and up to date.

Can somebody give me a brief summary of what I need to do to set up a pool. I've done it a few times before (for XMR) but I'm not really up on which versions of the code to use for AEON, any patches needed, etc.

Post if you feel it is of general interest, otherwise PM.

Thanks!

I have similar deficiencies on certain comps running my 750ti's. Not absolutely positive but I believe it boils down to the architecture of the machine and/or bios. Bios update risk not worth the reward. ...I know this btw because I have swapped 3 different ti's between about 5 different machines and then played musical chairs with them and the deficiencies persisted among the mobo/processor/bios architectures and not the variations in cards or software. ....not likely your fault

Working now myagui. Turns out I have cuda5.5, and both versions work, so I guess it was just the missing dll. I'm getting much lower hashrate on that windows computer though, around 250 h/s per 750ti, compared to about 425 h/s per card on ubuntu machine. So, don't know if that's cause I need to update cuda, or just cause windows sucks, but, anyway, it's working now

Here are freshly compiled (and unofficial) AEON light-node binaries for testing on Windows:
I built these on Win-10, Boost 1.59, VStudio 2015, and look to be working fine on my Win-8 box as well.
Aeon-Win-x64-light-node-beta

Instructions starting up a light-node are here:
Pruning (aka Light Full Node) test release

And the FAQ on pruning just upthread:
Pruning FAQ

So for now, I'll be running a light-node instead of the archive one, and solo mining on the daemon as before. I'll most likely run a full node in the long term as I have the resources available, but anyhow I figured that testing light-node is more useful right now.

@SRBOOTH: thanks for the feedback 

Cheers!

The relevant file causing the problem was my cudart32_65.dll was not up to date for the 6.5 build even though I had installed cuda 7. Found this out after updating my driver. Then copy and pasted the updated cudart32_65.dll to the .bat file on another machine where the driver was not yet updated and ccminer worked fine without going through the update. Kinda good to know in the case of a driver rollback or other testing. So it looks like , at least in this case, a matching dll would would work for others who have not or do not want to fully update. This was related to the 750ti btw.

Thanks for the feedback jwinterm. I know that most up-to-date ccminer forks are built with static libraries (so separate dll's are not required), but the cryptonight base from which cryptonight-lite was made, was a much older fork and generally not maintained, so I doubt it was configured in such fancy ways (not that I know enough to really make a call either way).
This helps though, as missing (or conflicting) dll's might also be causing the issue for SRBOOTH.

The issue for SRBOOTH was outdated drivers, just confirmed over PM and so all is well for him now  
I'm not sure now, but I think I had built with cuda 7.5, which would explain why a recent driver is required. Hmm... maybe I mentioned something around the time? Old farts have crappy memory  
 
For anyone interested in trying out my most up-to-date build, here's one with some personal tweaks and both cuda 6.5 & 7.5 flavors. I cannot for the life of me recall what compute levels I had included on this build, but at minimum, it should be compute 5.0 and upwards. Might also do better at regular cryptonight mining, for whatever that's worth...
ccminer-cryptonight-lite-beta-3

Edited to add: Note that most up-to-date build and personal tweaks don't necessarily make it any faster!    This version might do better on some cards, worse on others (for all I know, might do worse on all of them, unfortunately I cannot afford the testing time right now to go back and compare, all of my GPUs are tied up).

And here's a bunch of dll's, should have everything that might possibly be necessary to run any current x86 ccminer (not x64), as well as it most definitely has some extra (needless) stuff in there... It's my go to copy/paste set from many ccminer adventures over time  
ccminer-dll-pack

Thanks for the words of support and for supporting the network.

Everyone else, please consider solo mining to your own wallet or use the --donate option when starting the daemon for easy solo mining to support the project.

When I try to launch the binary, I get a "MSCVR120.DLL is missing from your computer" error box popup, but I'm pretty sure I have all the microsoft redistributables installed, and regular ccminer works ok. It works fine when built from source on Ubuntu computer though.

I'm exchanging PMs with SRBOOTH to see if we can figure out why the ccminer binaries that I posted are not working for him.
@jwinterm, if I read correctly, you also had some trouble on Windows. In case you used the binaries that I had posted, do you recall what was the error on your end?

@smooth, awesome job on the pruning release! I've been happy solo mining, hitting at least one block per day, sometimes two. Need all the power we can have against nefarious Moooooooooo.    I'll see if I can build the pruning release and start testing that as well tonight.

Outputs are not touched, only input-side data is pruned, but as mentioned in the FAQ, this is a large portion of the total and what constitutes most of the difference in size ("bloat") between cryptonote transactions and other coins with Bitcoin-style transactions (with the remaining difference from denominations, but with the offsetting reduction from Bitcoin's "bulky scripts" so it ends up being similar overall).

There is no white paper, but writing something up about how it works and committing it to git is a good idea. I'll take that as a (good) suggestion.


Yes exactly the same. The original version of the open source pool software paid every miner on every block regardless of hash rate. You can imagine what a mess that created, not only when paying the miners, but when the miners tried to move those small payments. All of the early cryptonote coins used the same pool software (with the exception of the portion of mining on minergate which had/has their own closed-source software).


Thanks!

interesting development with the pruning! Wish i could run the darn thing. Its still not under the 2 gigs necessary for my node boxes.

i'm curious about the information dropped during the pruning process... and also, in the pruned blockchain, are the pruned outputs still available for ring signature creation? Or does a user now simply have a limited amount of data to create a transaction from? This might be more information / detail than you have time for ... was there a whitepaper etc for this approach?

also re: no ring signatures in early Aeon - sorry to go off topic, but does this phenomenon carry over to monero and other cryptonote coins?

awesome work!!

Not that I know of. Arux is on vacation in the wilderness or something so there won't be any official builds until he returns. Community members are invited the share them (with the usual warnings about trustworthiness).

Thanks I have 750 ti as well on Windows 7. I tried to run it and get :
"Unable to query number of CUDA devices! Is an nVidia driver installed?"
I mine all kinds of things so I know I should have any prerequisites unless you might be familiar with this? I scanned the thread link you gave and didn't see anything.

There is a windows compilation for ccminer, but it didn't work for me. I've only been able to get it working for my 750tis using debian. Link is available here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11897727

Is there a Windows compilation for the light version with pruning??

Is there a ccminer for cryptonight-light? ...excuse my ignorance but I have only been able to find the updated cpu miner through the threads.

I second that. Nice work.

Nice smooth job smooth, the RAM reduction is real, just imagine now AEON running with the LMDB databse... it will be perfect for smartphones and small devices indeed.