Topic: [ANN] Raycoin (RAY) First Ray Tracing Proof-of-Work - Mine with RTX 2080/70 GPUs - page 2. (Read 1654 times)
November 19, 2018, 09:50:36 PM
Got a few miners on the Raycoin blockchain now! Everything appears to be working as tested. Any RTX owners here?
November 19, 2018, 01:53:02 PM
After much work I finally released the Raycoin v1.0 blockchain, check out the main post and download it and join me mining!
November 09, 2018, 10:58:43 PM
something unique, i am an amd guy so will wait for what is developing here.
November 09, 2018, 07:41:53 PM
That will make this coin quite hard to get listed on an exchange id say. I doubt anyone is running a windows server with a 2070+ in it. But that also makes it even more interesting!
EDIT: Yep, block explorers and exchanges will need to communicate with a Windows machine that has a 2060+
November 09, 2018, 06:47:23 PM
Great project, looking forward a pleasant cooperation, we want to list you coin on our exchange. A great start, search MXshine! or marketing email
We invite you to bring your project to our exchange, Altmarkets is a Cryptocurrency 6,000 members and over 100 coins listed. Focusing on lower-tier altcoins we push each coin listing with social media announcements as well as to our growing social channels.
Our BCT Announce: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/exchange-altmarkets-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-wwwaltmarketscc-4687148
Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/p4NwBdE
Request a listing with us via the above thread / announce post or visit http://www.altmarkets.cc - We aim to reply within 24 - 48 hours.
Our BCT Announce: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/exchange-altmarkets-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-wwwaltmarketscc-4687148
Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/p4NwBdE
Request a listing with us via the above thread / announce post or visit http://www.altmarkets.cc - We aim to reply within 24 - 48 hours.
Thanks I'll contact you in a few weeks when the cryptocurrency is released.
I recommend that exchanges have a Windows server with a RTX 2080/70 to run raycoind, otherwise you would be "flying blind" not being able to verify block hashes yourself and could only connect to officially trusted servers which have the necessary hardware. For hash verification the cheaper 2070 will likely be the better option as the speed should be identical, but that remains to be tested.
That will make this coin quite hard to get listed on an exchange id say. I doubt anyone is running a windows server with a 2070+ in it. But that also makes it even more interesting!
November 09, 2018, 01:28:11 PM
Great project, looking forward a pleasant cooperation, we want to list you coin on our exchange. A great start, search MXshine! or marketing email
We invite you to bring your project to our exchange, Altmarkets is a Cryptocurrency 6,000 members and over 100 coins listed. Focusing on lower-tier altcoins we push each coin listing with social media announcements as well as to our growing social channels.
Our BCT Announce: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/exchange-altmarkets-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-wwwaltmarketscc-4687148
Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/p4NwBdE
Request a listing with us via the above thread / announce post or visit http://www.altmarkets.cc - We aim to reply within 24 - 48 hours.
Our BCT Announce: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/exchange-altmarkets-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-wwwaltmarketscc-4687148
Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/p4NwBdE
Request a listing with us via the above thread / announce post or visit http://www.altmarkets.cc - We aim to reply within 24 - 48 hours.
Thanks I'll contact you in a few weeks when the cryptocurrency is released.
November 09, 2018, 01:13:54 PM
We invite you to bring your project to our exchange, Altmarkets is a Cryptocurrency 6,000 members and over 100 coins listed. Focusing on lower-tier altcoins we push each coin listing with social media announcements as well as to our growing social channels.
Our BCT Announce: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/exchange-altmarkets-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-wwwaltmarketscc-4687148
Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/p4NwBdE
Request a listing with us via the above thread / announce post or visit http://www.altmarkets.cc - We aim to reply within 24 - 48 hours.
Our BCT Announce: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/exchange-altmarkets-a-cryptocurrency-exchange-wwwaltmarketscc-4687148
Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/p4NwBdE
Request a listing with us via the above thread / announce post or visit http://www.altmarkets.cc - We aim to reply within 24 - 48 hours.
November 09, 2018, 12:01:08 PM
Parameter -gpu works. But GPU doesn't work (GPU support tensor cores and ray tracing, according to official description)
Hardware: TITAN V
Software: Win10 x64, Nvidia driver version 411.70
What the problem could be?
Hardware: TITAN V
Software: Win10 x64, Nvidia driver version 411.70
What the problem could be?
You have the old version of windows, for DXR you need the latest Windows October Update and a driver later than 416.16. October Update was actually pulled due to bugs and will be back next week.
Also, TITAN V doesn't have RT cores anyway, it probably won't run on your system without emulation (which can't be used for mining).
November 09, 2018, 11:52:53 AM
wow，maybe you are the nvidia sellers ::)what devition need? only rtx2080?
Yes only RTX 2080 Ti / 2080 / 2070.
There is already a coin that can be mined with the Nvidia RTX series, maybe a year or two more years the series 10 will no longer be used to mine coins.
November 09, 2018, 11:37:26 AM
wow，maybe you are the nvidia sellers ::)what devition need? only rtx2080?
Yes only RTX 2080 Ti / 2080 / 2070.
Could you post help section with parameters of RaycoinViewer starting?
Can I start the viewer on the PC with different GPUs both supported Ray tracing and Not supporting ?
Okay, use -gpu
Parameter -gpu works. But GPU doesn't work (GPU support tensor cores and ray tracing, according to official description)
Hardware: TITAN V
Software: Win10 x64, Nvidia driver version 411.70
What the problem could be?
November 09, 2018, 10:46:38 AM
wow，maybe you are the nvidia sellers ::)what devition need? only rtx2080?
Yes only RTX 2080 Ti / 2080 / 2070.
Could you post help section with parameters of RaycoinViewer starting?
Can I start the viewer on the PC with different GPUs both supported Ray tracing and Not supporting ?
Okay, use -gpu
November 09, 2018, 10:36:50 AM
wow，maybe you are the nvidia sellers ::)what devition need? only rtx2080?
Yes only RTX 2080 Ti / 2080 / 2070.
Could you post help section with parameters of RaycoinViewer starting?
Can I start the viewer on the PC with different GPUs both supported Ray tracing and Not supporting ?
November 09, 2018, 09:24:34 AM
wow，maybe you are the nvidia sellers ::)what devition need? only rtx2080?
Yes only RTX 2080 Ti / 2080 / 2070.
November 09, 2018, 05:56:35 AM
wow，maybe you are the nvidia sellers ::)what devition need? only rtx2080?
November 09, 2018, 04:35:48 AM
I've seen that's not mineable atm but, can i mine with 1070 too?
Unfortunately no. There is GPU emulation for DXR ray tracing called the "Fallback Layer" but it doesn't match Turing's RT cores exactly (there are a myriad of ways to construct a hierarchy and intersect rays/triangles and all sorts of edge cases), it's likely that the Fallback Layer can't reproduce some if not most hardware mining results so I didn't bother supporting it.
I'll consider supporting the emulator so that those with non-Turing GPUs can at least play with it, but it's kind of a low priority at the moment.
Really sad about this...
November 09, 2018, 02:53:30 AM
I've seen that's not mineable atm but, can i mine with 1070 too?
Unfortunately no. There is GPU emulation for DXR ray tracing called the "Fallback Layer" but it doesn't match Turing's RT cores exactly (there are a myriad of ways to construct a hierarchy and intersect rays/triangles and all sorts of edge cases), it's likely that the Fallback Layer can't reproduce some if not most hardware mining results so I didn't bother supporting it.
I'll consider supporting the emulator so that those with non-Turing GPUs can at least play with it, but it's kind of a low priority at the moment.
November 09, 2018, 02:13:28 AM
I've seen that's not mineable atm but, can i mine with 1070 too?
November 09, 2018, 12:53:40 AM
this very interesting project, its really sounds new with a different kind of POW. good luck to this project.
Thanks for displaying my images, they are enormous though.
November 09, 2018, 12:51:40 AM
Today I'm releasing a preview of Raycoin, this release is a mining sandbox and visualization of the Ray Tracing Proof-of-Work algorithm. The viewer will be used to browse successful hashes in your mining log and on the blockchain.
Raycoin will be a vanilla Bitcoin derivative with PoRT (Proof of Ray Tracing) for ASIC resistance. Integration into Bitcoin (bitcoind) is underway as of today, I'll provide more details of the Raycoin cryptocurrency later on release day. For now I'd appreciate if prospective miners download the viewer and report any bugs:
Raycoin-v0.5.zip (VirusTotal Clean)
Official Website (just a forum for now): http://ray-coin.com
Requirements:
- Latest Windows 10 October update
- Nvidia RTX 2080/70 GPU (Turing)
Screenshot of the viewer:
Description of the Ray Tracing Proof-of-Work:
Ray Tracing consumes 96% of the frame time with hashing just 2%, so this Proof-of-Work is dominated by Ray Tracing and thus ASIC-resistant. You can verify this yourself in the viewer by disabling hashing and enabling the profiler in the Engine Tuning menu.
Here you can see the labels and the hit count, the ray stops at hit #32:
The Engine Tuning menu can be used to customize the viewer appearance, here the specular and ray intensities have been cranked up so that the scene sparkles:
Raycoin will be a vanilla Bitcoin derivative with PoRT (Proof of Ray Tracing) for ASIC resistance. Integration into Bitcoin (bitcoind) is underway as of today, I'll provide more details of the Raycoin cryptocurrency later on release day. For now I'd appreciate if prospective miners download the viewer and report any bugs:
Raycoin-v0.5.zip (VirusTotal Clean)
Official Website (just a forum for now): http://ray-coin.com
Requirements:
- Latest Windows 10 October update
- Nvidia RTX 2080/70 GPU (Turing)
Screenshot of the viewer:
Description of the Ray Tracing Proof-of-Work:
- rays are cast out into a randomized field (seeded from the block) of faceted spheres which reflect the rays chaotically (like a disco ball)
- each sphere has a random label (4 bytes), when a ray hits a sphere its label is concatenated to the ray's string
- 32 such labels in each ray's string are hashed together using blake2s on the GPU
- if the hash is less than the target then a block is found, and the XY screen coordinate of the successful ray is stored in the high 20 bits of the nonce for verification
- there is one additional constraint: the ray must travel a certain depth into the field, after which the motion is deemed chaotic enough (over 99% of rays pass this test)
- rays that exit the field wrap around to the origin with a small perturbation to their orientation
Ray Tracing consumes 96% of the frame time with hashing just 2%, so this Proof-of-Work is dominated by Ray Tracing and thus ASIC-resistant. You can verify this yourself in the viewer by disabling hashing and enabling the profiler in the Engine Tuning menu.
Here you can see the labels and the hit count, the ray stops at hit #32:
The Engine Tuning menu can be used to customize the viewer appearance, here the specular and ray intensities have been cranked up so that the scene sparkles:
this very interesting project, its really sounds new with a different kind of POW. good luck to this project.
November 09, 2018, 12:47:43 AM
Any plans to support 1070s?
Will test when/if its released
Will test when/if its released
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