Topic: [ANN] sgminer v5 - optimized X11/X13/NeoScrypt/Lyra2RE/etc. kernel-switch miner - page 126. (Read 877846 times)

say I want to do some precalculation on blake256 for lyra2RE, where do I put that ?
midstate ?

ps: such a nightmare modifying sgminer  
(how something which should take 5min (time it took on ccminer) will end up been done in 5hours...)

It might be better if kernel was only released in binary form (*.bin), and not the source. The binaries could also be signed so if there is a leak, you could tell who has leaked..

Binary distribution would also eliminate the problem with different Catalyst versions. For example current neoscrypt kernel only compiles properly on Catalyst 14.6, anything newer or older generates HW errors or very slow speed. Then again all scrypt kernels compile best on 13.12, compiling on 14.x works but gives perhaps 30% lower hashrate..

The compiled binaries can be moved around with no problem. I have used the 14.6 neoscrypt binary with 13.12, and it works fine with full speed. Recompiling it under 13.12 halves the hashrate..

Still the biggest problem is, some users have 200 gpus and some have only a few. If you are selling a kernel, the price should be different! It should be "per GPU" price, but it is impossible to control. If the price is fixed, some big rig owner can easily pay a few BTC to get the kernel, and then ruin the profits for all "hobby" miners.

I like to optimize these just for my own fun. And obviously it's good if you get some profit from your work. But at the moment it seems the best way to profit, is just keep the kernel to yourself and enjoy the increased hashrate.. Any wider distribution will just lower my own profit.

I've seen the exact same thing in the sat hacking days... (they ended about a decade ago)  And participated in it, and had my own VB code ripped off and sold without so much as a thank you.

The motto then was "I want my free TV no matter how much it costs", and people would pay $100 a month to beat a $75 a month bill.  Fun times, I made 2 years worth of payments on my jeep from that, and consider myself very lucky to have gotten that much out of it.

Ahh, different name, different time, different life, same arguments..  lol

Ugh, don't make me do stuff!

You know the funny thing about your whole BS campaign against miners Wolf is after your kernel leaked, x11 difficulty has barely moved. Which means one of three things. Everyone is operating on Maxwell (I find this hard to believe), people didn't find it... OR more then likely it was already well distributed before it leaked.

Remember my threads where I was asking what was happening in the last two months that made difficulty jump so much? Then I surmised that it was because people were using GPUs as space heaters. I'm pretty sure your kernel has been in circulation for quite some time already either through your own hands or from back room trading behind the scenes. Either way I'm earning now what I did before people turned their GPUs on 'for heat' with x11, which just happened to coincide with when you started distributing your kernel.

So you basically shot yourself in your feet by trying to keep everything low key, which just made more people try and sell it behind your back... And apparently all the big miners got it because it hasn't changed a darn thing now that it's public. I suppose they could have their own super secret kernel maker too? -_-

Too bad you didn't just go public with it (besides bragging) and make a miner for it... but I suppose people would just cheat that as well (and apparently also resell it for cheaper to other people). There are also people that would be willing to NOT pay 3 BTC, but donate hashing power as well... But you know, keep thinking what you want.

Oh and people still pay Claymores fee.


Aye, not talking about higher hashrate then what we're getting right now. Same hashrate as publicly available miner, with the optimizations he put in place in this one.

Post a link, I'll figure it out, I'm good like that.

But finding that in the morass that is crypto, is damn near impossible.

Maybe - I haven't tried all settings - if you want to try something new, try it out. You'll want to change your settings, though; I basically implemented a lookup gap of 2.

Seems there is new algo on the road!

Here is the thing. If you publish this only few people who start using this amongst first ones would benefit from this and only for half a day until everyone else accepts new miner. The same thing would be with FTC if we stayed with first miner we had without any optimization. Diff has the main role here. I suggest to you to use it without any publishing so at lest someone who works hard on some development have some kind of profit, if we can talk about profit at all those days. Wolf0 did amazing work last few months, did he had anything from it. I believe that answer is NO. So keep it for yourself and for those who want those performance they should understand that if they want more they should start learning how to do it not expecting to benefit once more from someones else hard work.

For you guys with Hawaii cards, or guys who just want to try something new, here: https://github.com/wolf9466/neo-sgminer5-hawaii

Should help you get this (270X, 290X, and 290X, in that order; nsfw): https://ottrbutt.com/miner/neoscryptwolf-11212014.png

Program it into a miner and have the miner auto donate 1%..  Easy enough.  Level playing field AND you get coin.

Haha, I'm not that important. Anyway, for some strange reason, if you see a 0.01 share accepted, I'm pretty sure it counts it as 0.01. So the accept count will go up, just INSANELY slowly.

bensam is the power troll (been doing this on all threads...)
however, he should look at lyra2 miner, it is a low power algo

Well, you can lower your voltages and clocks, to get same hashrate with less watts. Less clock necessarily doesn't mean less watts, but less voltage almost definetily does..

But yes, running higher hashrate means higher watts also. I haven't measured it because power consumption is not an issue for me, but the GPUs seem to run a bit hotter.

Trim it down and increase power efficiency instead for the same hashrate people are already getting. I'm guessing with the above optimizations it also increases  power usage?

It does work - just counts differently.

JuanHungLo

use the device command.  For instance if you want to disable GPU 1 you use the command:

"device": "0,2,3",

how can i do it in conf file?

Press "g" then "disable" then pick gpu