Avalon ASIC users thread - page 133.

NiteShdw

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Quote from: area on July 06, 2013, 02:49:53 AM

Quote from: el_rlee on July 06, 2013, 02:42:16 AM

Quote from: area on July 06, 2013, 02:21:58 AM

With such a high hashrate over Stratum, what's a normal accepted / rejected ratio for a pool? I seem to be running below 90% which seems bad...

I don't know - but I am on the other end of the world and slush's pool is working fine for me...

Switching from eustratum on OzCoin to 'regular' stratum seems to have much better numbers coming out now. Which is odd, because eustratum should definitely be closer.

On Ozcoin, I was getting really bad efficiency ratings until I switched from the default to the US URL. Now I'm getting 99.5% on average. Network latency will kill you at these hash rates.

GenTarkin

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where did you get the watercooling? is there a setup released for avy yet?

area

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Quote from: el_rlee on July 06, 2013, 02:42:16 AM

Quote from: area on July 06, 2013, 02:21:58 AM

With such a high hashrate over Stratum, what's a normal accepted / rejected ratio for a pool? I seem to be running below 90% which seems bad...

I don't know - but I am on the other end of the world and slush's pool is working fine for me...

Switching from eustratum on OzCoin to 'regular' stratum seems to have much better numbers coming out now. Which is odd, because eustratum should definitely be closer.

el_rlee

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Increased the water temperatur and frequency a bit... HW error now 1.3%

Still the frequency doesn't move by itself.

Quote from: area on July 06, 2013, 02:21:58 AM

With such a high hashrate over Stratum, what's a normal accepted / rejected ratio for a pool? I seem to be running below 90% which seems bad...

I don't know - but I am on the other end of the world and slush's pool is working fine for me...

area

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With such a high hashrate over Stratum, what's a normal accepted / rejected ratio for a pool? I seem to be running below 90% which seems bad...

el_rlee

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Quote from: irritant on July 06, 2013, 01:45:46 AM

Quote from: el_rlee on July 06, 2013, 01:32:25 AM

Quote from: GenTarkin on July 06, 2013, 01:31:22 AM

give it a little more time, I notice it climbs up slowly...

Gave it over night, same result at similar HW error rate

maybe it is waiting for fan readings?
and because you don't have them, it doesn't work?
is it possible you attach the fans, to see if that helps?

nope, invader was so nice to make that clear in the code here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2655790

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Sodium hypochlorite, acetone, ethanol

Quote from: el_rlee on July 06, 2013, 01:32:25 AM

Quote from: GenTarkin on July 06, 2013, 01:31:22 AM

give it a little more time, I notice it climbs up slowly...

Gave it over night, same result at similar HW error rate

maybe it is waiting for fan readings?
and because you don't have them, it doesn't work?
is it possible you attach the fans, to see if that helps?

GenTarkin

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Quote from: el_rlee on July 06, 2013, 01:32:25 AM

Quote from: GenTarkin on July 06, 2013, 01:31:22 AM

give it a little more time, I notice it climbs up slowly...

Gave it over night, same result at similar HW error rate

you gave it overnight yet only 25k diff 1 share equivilant...that dont add up =P

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Quote from: GenTarkin on July 06, 2013, 01:31:22 AM

give it a little more time, I notice it climbs up slowly...

Gave it over night, same result at similar HW error rate

GenTarkin

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give it a little more time, I notice it climbs up slowly...

el_rlee

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I just don't get the --avalon-auto function working

I don't know what I am doing wrong. According to my calculations this should be ~1.2% HW errors, so why the frequency doesn't go up? Does the controller wait for a certain temperature to be reached?
This is a water cooled unit.

Settings:

I also tried "--avalon -auto", which doesn't work at all

bitdude

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So, suddenly, in the middle of the night, my Avalon stopped working (latest ckolivas' firmware, default clock, default settings). In the morning I found out I can not connect to its IP, it was not hashing on the pool, and I had to turn it off and on again to restart it. Is there anything I can do to get information what actually happened?

Are there any logs that are kept over the reboot? Or can this be set so?

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Quote from: -ck on July 05, 2013, 10:47:37 PM

Can I just take a step back now and point out to people there is absolutely no way I could have developed the avalon code to this level of maturity and features if I didn't have one myself. Avalon themselves offered me only one module to develop on, or to deliver me one quickly if I purchased one at a slight discount, and this was only at Xiangfu's insistence, who was their developer and understands how important developer access to hardware is. I'm certainly not happy that I actually had to pay for it since I never intended to be one of their customers effectively doing the software for their hardware for free, so I was torn about whether I should or not, but ultimately knowing it would pay itself off anyway I gave in.

Great firmware. Keep up the good work. Here's my 1 btc donation.

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Quote from: -ck on July 05, 2013, 10:47:37 PM

Quote from: mdbssm on July 05, 2013, 09:19:50 PM

A huge thank you for your dev work on cgminer and the customizations for the avalon. The July 3 firmware is rock solid, running for 4+ hrs on my units without restarts. The auto-overclocking is just way cool too.

1 BTC donation sent your way.

Keep up the great work!

Thanks

Can I just take a step back now and point out to people there is absolutely no way I could have developed the avalon code to this level of maturity and features if I didn't have one myself. Avalon themselves offered me only one module to develop on, or to deliver me one quickly if I purchased one at a slight discount, and this was only at Xiangfu's insistence, who was their developer and understands how important developer access to hardware is. I'm certainly not happy that I actually had to pay for it since I never intended to be one of their customers effectively doing the software for their hardware for free, so I was torn about whether I should or not, but ultimately knowing it would pay itself off anyway I gave in.

I agree entirely with your position. A company interested in optimizing the product to drive future sales would do exactly what you suggested and more.

One quick feature request. Is it possible to display the calculated HW error rate in the status page, say 5min avg and running avg?

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: mdbssm on July 05, 2013, 09:19:50 PM

A huge thank you for your dev work on cgminer and the customizations for the avalon. The July 3 firmware is rock solid, running for 4+ hrs on my units without restarts. The auto-overclocking is just way cool too.

1 BTC donation sent your way.

Keep up the great work!

Thanks

Can I just take a step back now and point out to people there is absolutely no way I could have developed the avalon code to this level of maturity and features if I didn't have one myself. Avalon themselves offered me only one module to develop on, or to deliver me one quickly if I purchased one at a slight discount, and this was only at Xiangfu's insistence, who was their developer and understands how important developer access to hardware is. I'm certainly not happy that I actually had to pay for it since I never intended to be one of their customers effectively doing the software for their hardware for free, so I was torn about whether I should or not, but ultimately knowing it would pay itself off anyway I gave in.

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Quote from: psjw4450 on July 05, 2013, 09:56:06 PM

Whats an acceptable HW error %? Im getting roughly 1.5%.

anything under 2%

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finally got it. man, my eyesight must be getting bad. made the mistake of trying to match up hole shapes.

but now finally in optimum configuration. temps are much lower after externalizing the psu's. allowed me to go into full --avalon -auto.

-ck

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Ruu \o/

Quote from: cypherdoc on July 05, 2013, 01:00:02 PM

con,

is a vardiff of 236 getting too high?

Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as "too high". The higher the diff, the less communication you will have with the pool. The disadvantage is progressively greater variance in how much you get paid till the ultimate variance when your difficulty is as high as solo mining. OOC did the analysis and for variance to not look more than 1% and still reap the benefit of lower communications, you need to have a diff where you submit about 20-24 shares per minute. That works out to about a diff of 56 for one avalon.

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Real world efficiency report:

Batch 2 Avalon, Delivered ~22 Jun 2013
Stock Enermax "Chiyan Gold Magic 750W" (Iffy translation)
http://www.enermax.cn/Products_Pages.asp?ID=198&SortID=1

All Japanese 105C Capacitors
62A +12V (Single Rail)
87Plus Ready - Efficiency "Up to 93%"

Unless I'm mistaken, this is the same platform as the Corsair TX750M but with derated +3.3V and +5V (20A vs. 30A)

I've been running ckolivas-releases firmware, mainly at a clock of 325MHz but moving up to ~350 recently; my AC supply is ~119volts at the wall under load.

Anyway, net/net for that time period is:

227KWh for 29.43BTC, or ~28MJ/BTC. My electric cost for this will be $13.3, so this is profitable for BTC > $0.45, or at $70/BTC it is profitable to a difficulty of ~3Billion.

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edit: I paid ~ 76BTC for this Avalon, so it is almost halfway to recovering its cost.

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Whats an acceptable HW error %? Im getting roughly 1.5%.

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