further improved phatk_dia kernel for Phoenix + SDK 2.6 - 2012-01-13 - page 8.

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To all happy new kernel users, there is one thing you should know ... there have been NO donations since 2011-07-31, which makes me a bit sad.

It's my free time that I put in here (it were many hours till now) and the motivation is not only to get a "Thank you!". Remember, you guys generate more BTC with the kernel mods. It doesn't matter if it's my mod, Phateus mod or any others mod ... just be a little thankful and you keep a free and fast kernel + a motivated kernel mixer Diapolo Wink

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No offense to all the great people who already donated a few bitcents or even more, who helped me testing this, who helped me fix bugs or who added great ideas into this work!

Regards,
Diapolo

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Quote from: Beta-coiner1 on August 07, 2011, 12:55:18 PM

Quote from: bcforum on August 06, 2011, 08:39:19 PM

Quote from: Diapolo on August 04, 2011, 02:32:46 PM

New version was just released, it should be the fastest for 69XX cards:
Download version 2011-08-04 (pre-release): http://www.mediafire.com/?upwwud7kfyx7788

This is the preferred switch for Phoenix in order to achieve comparable performance:

Code:

-k phatk AGGRESSION=12 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false VECTORS VECTORS2 WORKSIZE=256

or

Code:

-k phatk AGGRESSION=12 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false VECTORS VECTORS2 WORKSIZE=128

Please test this version with SDK 2.4 / SDK 2.5! SDK 2.1 performance seems worse, but at least it should work. Report any errors and problems here and let me know what you think.
Have a look at your cards temperatures, I got a report, that they may be lower, which would be great

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Regards,
Dia

I get 0.8MH/s faster with phoenix-r112, but temps do appear to be 3C-4C lower.

6970 Lightning (940,1375) x2
Ubuntu 10.10
SDK 2.4
Cat 11.3

I can confirm the temps difference,which I thought was strange.Using Catalyst 11.6B/SDK 2.5 on a 6950 @867/1250 using V 4 W64 F3 temps are 3 C lower using GUI miner.Hash rate has also increased 3 Mh's using those settings as well as invalids are definitely much lower vs. Phataeus.

I have to ask to understand you ... you say that my current pre-release version generates 3°C less heat for your card and invalid share rate is lower in comparison to the latest Phateus phatk?

Dia

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Quote from: bcforum on August 06, 2011, 08:39:19 PM

Quote from: Diapolo on August 04, 2011, 02:32:46 PM

New version was just released, it should be the fastest for 69XX cards:
Download version 2011-08-04 (pre-release): http://www.mediafire.com/?upwwud7kfyx7788

This is the preferred switch for Phoenix in order to achieve comparable performance:

Code:

-k phatk AGGRESSION=12 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false VECTORS VECTORS2 WORKSIZE=256

or

Code:

-k phatk AGGRESSION=12 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false VECTORS VECTORS2 WORKSIZE=128

Please test this version with SDK 2.4 / SDK 2.5! SDK 2.1 performance seems worse, but at least it should work. Report any errors and problems here and let me know what you think.
Have a look at your cards temperatures, I got a report, that they may be lower, which would be great

.

Regards,
Dia

I get 0.8MH/s faster with phoenix-r112, but temps do appear to be 3C-4C lower.

6970 Lightning (940,1375) x2
Ubuntu 10.10
SDK 2.4
Cat 11.3

I can confirm the temps difference,which I thought was strange.Using Catalyst 11.6B/SDK 2.5 on a 6950 @867/1250 using V 4 W64 F3 temps are 3 C lower using GUI miner.Hash rate has also increased 3 Mh's using those settings as well as invalids are definitely much lower vs. Phataeus.

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Updated 1st post kernel performance data with SDK 2.5 and KernelAnalyzer 1.9 Cal 11.7 profile.

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Quote from: jedi95 on August 07, 2011, 01:37:46 AM

The latest version (2011-08-04) has a major problem that I can see.

The assumption that there won't be more than 1 valid nonce per kernel execution is very wrong. At aggression 14 for example each kernel execution tests 2^30 nonces. The chance that there will be more than 1 valid nonce in any given kernel execution in this case is going to be about 2.5% (if I did the math right) This effectively causes a net loss in performance compared to the previous version at high aggression. At lower aggression values (10 and below) this is less of a problem since the performance loss in these cases will be much less than 1%.

You have to compare the loss of valid nonces to the higher efficiency because of the removed control flow in the kernel (all current GPUs dislike if/else and so on). I thought this tradeoff would be well worth it, but you could prove me wrong. I was thinking about a better way of writing the positive nonces into output, but that didn't work.

Any good ideas for that part of the kernel will be a big plus!

Dia

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The latest version (2011-08-04) has a major problem that I can see.

The assumption that there won't be more than 1 valid nonce per kernel execution is very wrong. At aggression 14 for example each kernel execution tests 2^30 nonces. The chance that there will be more than 1 valid nonce in any given kernel execution in this case is going to be about 2.5% (if I did the math right) This effectively causes a net loss in performance compared to the previous version at high aggression. At lower aggression values (10 and below) this is less of a problem since the performance loss in these cases will be much less than 1%.

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Quote from: joulesbeef on August 06, 2011, 03:31:26 PM

just to be clear though.. vectors vectors2 doesnt hurt anything.. it is just extraneous?
I preferred to leave it as it was lest typing and deleting when testing the versions.

But if their is 2 vectors like "vectors vectors2" , which will be taken in to acc. 1st one or last one in command line?
coz vectors2 & vectors both give different performances.

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Quote from: Diapolo on August 04, 2011, 02:32:46 PM

New version was just released, it should be the fastest for 69XX cards:
Download version 2011-08-04 (pre-release): http://www.mediafire.com/?upwwud7kfyx7788

This is the preferred switch for Phoenix in order to achieve comparable performance:

Code:

-k phatk AGGRESSION=12 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false VECTORS VECTORS2 WORKSIZE=256

or

Code:

-k phatk AGGRESSION=12 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false VECTORS VECTORS2 WORKSIZE=128

Please test this version with SDK 2.4 / SDK 2.5! SDK 2.1 performance seems worse, but at least it should work. Report any errors and problems here and let me know what you think.
Have a look at your cards temperatures, I got a report, that they may be lower, which would be great

.

Regards,
Dia

I get 0.8MH/s faster with phoenix-r112, but temps do appear to be 3C-4C lower.

6970 Lightning (940,1375) x2
Ubuntu 10.10
SDK 2.4
Cat 11.3

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Quote from: joulesbeef on August 06, 2011, 03:31:26 PM

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Phoenix 1.5 has the bfipatcher.py included, so I never included it in any kernel package

strange must not have been in my guiminer's version of phoenix 1.5 which does seem different.

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You are right, sorry for that! Just VECTORS2 is the way to go. I edited the first post

just to be clear though.. vectors vectors2 doesnt hurt anything.. it is just extraneous?

I preferred to leave it as it was lest typing and deleting when testing the versions.

Yeah, it doesn't hurt, it's just ignored.

Dia

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moOo

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Phoenix 1.5 has the bfipatcher.py included, so I never included it in any kernel package

strange must not have been in my guiminer's version of phoenix 1.5 which does seem different.

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You are right, sorry for that! Just VECTORS2 is the way to go. I edited the first post

just to be clear though.. vectors vectors2 doesnt hurt anything.. it is just extraneous?

I preferred to leave it as it was lest typing and deleting when testing the versions.

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Quote from: ovidiusoft on August 06, 2011, 05:57:41 AM

It says otherwise in the first post Tongue

You are right, sorry for that! Just VECTORS2 is the way to go. I edited the first post.

Dia

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It says otherwise in the first post Tongue

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Quote from: ssateneth on August 06, 2011, 05:49:54 AM

Quote from: ovidiusoft on August 06, 2011, 02:06:37 AM

I am happy to report these results for my 5830 running on SDK 2.4, fglrx-driver 1:11-6-2 (Debian unstable ~3 weeks snapshot), phoenix 1.50 and options "VECTORS VECTORS2 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=14 WORKSIZE=256":

blah blah blah

You don't need VECTORS VECTORS2. Just VECTORS2

Correct

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Quote from: ovidiusoft on August 06, 2011, 02:06:37 AM

I am happy to report these results for my 5830 running on SDK 2.4, fglrx-driver 1:11-6-2 (Debian unstable ~3 weeks snapshot), phoenix 1.50 and options "VECTORS VECTORS2 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=14 WORKSIZE=256":

blah blah blah

You don't need VECTORS VECTORS2. Just VECTORS2

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I am happy to report these results for my 5830 running on SDK 2.4, fglrx-driver 1:11-6-2 (Debian unstable ~3 weeks snapshot), phoenix 1.50 and options "VECTORS VECTORS2 BFI_INT FASTLOOP=false AGGRESSION=14 WORKSIZE=256":

* 07-11 @ 1040 Mhz - 334 Mhash
* 08-04 @ 1040 Mhz - 335,7 Mhash

* 07-11 @ 1050 Mhz - 337,3 Mhash
* 08-04 @ 1050 Mhz - 338,9 Mhash

07-17 was untested because of lots of hardware errors. The even more happy news for me is that 08-14 brought the number of hardware erors at about the same level as 07-11 (~0.2% of the accepted shares).

Thank you again for your work and I'm looking forward to having this kernel ported to cgminer!

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Quote from: Okama on August 05, 2011, 05:04:42 AM

Catalyst 11.6, SDK 2.4 here. Jumped from ~428 to ~435 with 5870, 950/300 clocks.

My friend got from ~416 to 425 with 920/300 clocks, also 5870 with Catalyst 11.5, SDK 2.1.

Keep up the good work, Dia!!

No problem mate, that's 10 BTC each card :-D.

Dia

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Catalyst 11.6, SDK 2.4 here. Jumped from ~428 to ~435 with 5870, 950/300 clocks.

My friend got from ~416 to 425 with 920/300 clocks, also 5870 with Catalyst 11.5, SDK 2.1.

Keep up the good work, Dia!!

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Quote from: dishwara on August 05, 2011, 12:36:35 AM

04-08-2011 version reduces hash speed on 5870.
I used vectors 4 & got only 444, while 2.1 phateus gives 447.

The current phatk should be faster for 58XX, sorry, but I said it _IS_ faster for 69XX Wink

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04-08-2011 version reduces hash speed on 5870.
I used vectors 4 & got only 444, while 2.1 phateus gives 447.

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Quote from: Coaster on August 04, 2011, 07:42:04 PM

the 8-4 prerelease for some reason lowered the hashrate on only 1 of 2 of my cards.. (the second card went from an average 426 to 389) same OC settings while card #1 remained around 426 (6970's)

Are you sure the VECTORS2 switch IS set!?

Dia

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