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HiveNet - Distributed Cloud Computing
November 13, 2014, 07:04:15 PM
Hmm, RKBox equivalent to the "New Rbox"? also just git'ed cgminer last night into a ubuntu system, setting that up for the box, gonna see if that works.
Depends on what you mean by equivalent? But yes these two particular devices use the same version of software/drivers.

Equivalent as in the same chipset, firmware, etc

But if the mucking around with the RKbox that ckolivas did was enough for the software to work nicely with the "New Rbox" that guy deserves a beer or 20
Should work with both. The Rocketbox was 8 blades, the new Rbox is a single blade as Dogie said. I'm still trying to further tweak the driver, but it's at the diminishing returns stage. A blade seems to drop out very easily though, and it usually re-hotplugs but not always.

ckolovas,

     Any idea why I can't get my r-boxes to run at full speed with cg?

Cg does not see my miners on my other box either.

Thanks.
-ck
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November 13, 2014, 07:01:41 PM
Hmm, RKBox equivalent to the "New Rbox"? also just git'ed cgminer last night into a ubuntu system, setting that up for the box, gonna see if that works.
Depends on what you mean by equivalent? But yes these two particular devices use the same version of software/drivers.

Equivalent as in the same chipset, firmware, etc

But if the mucking around with the RKbox that ckolivas did was enough for the software to work nicely with the "New Rbox" that guy deserves a beer or 20
Should work with both. The Rocketbox was 4 blades, the new Rbox is a single blade as Dogie said. I'm still trying to further tweak the driver, but it's at the diminishing returns stage. A blade seems to drop out very easily though, and it usually re-hotplugs but not always.
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November 13, 2014, 06:55:16 PM
Hmm, RKBox equivalent to the "New Rbox"? also just git'ed cgminer last night into a ubuntu system, setting that up for the box, gonna see if that works.
Depends on what you mean by equivalent? But yes these two particular devices use the same version of software/drivers.

Equivalent as in the same chipset, firmware, etc

But if the mucking around with the RKbox that ckolivas did was enough for the software to work nicely with the "New Rbox" that guy deserves a beer or 20

New Rbox (pics) is a single blade from an RK / R3 box (pics).
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November 13, 2014, 06:24:21 PM
Hmm, RKBox equivalent to the "New Rbox"? also just git'ed cgminer last night into a ubuntu system, setting that up for the box, gonna see if that works.
Depends on what you mean by equivalent? But yes these two particular devices use the same version of software/drivers.

Equivalent as in the same chipset, firmware, etc

But if the mucking around with the RKbox that ckolivas did was enough for the software to work nicely with the "New Rbox" that guy deserves a beer or 20
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November 13, 2014, 06:16:29 PM
Hmm, RKBox equivalent to the "New Rbox"? also just git'ed cgminer last night into a ubuntu system, setting that up for the box, gonna see if that works.
Depends on what you mean by equivalent? But yes these two particular devices use the same version of software/drivers.
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November 13, 2014, 05:57:19 PM
Hmm, RKBox equivalent to the "New Rbox"? also just git'ed cgminer last night into a ubuntu system, setting that up for the box, gonna see if that works.
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November 13, 2014, 04:33:28 PM
I recently had remote access to an RKbox and committed some improvements to the cgminer git master branch. It appears to be performing better and more stable now, along with less rejects/dupes, much less HW errors and a little less CPU usage. Note the displayed hashrate appears lower but that's because the dodgy driver counts rejects in its hashrate which there are quite a few in the form of duplicates, but the updated driver hashrate is higher as confirmed at the pool end. I also found the sweet spot to be a frequency of 330.

Thank you. Running for a couple of hours now, seems to work better indeed.
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November 13, 2014, 08:52:12 AM
I recently had remote access to an RKbox and committed some improvements to the cgminer git master branch. It appears to be performing better and more stable now, along with less rejects/dupes, much less HW errors and a little less CPU usage. Note the displayed hashrate appears lower but that's because the dodgy driver counts rejects in its hashrate which there are quite a few in the form of duplicates, but the updated driver hashrate is higher as confirmed at the pool end. I also found the sweet spot to be a frequency of 330.

Sweet spot of 330? Very nice work. Thank you!

I just wish I could get CG to work on my setup. I install the drivers and when I launch it does not recognize my miners on one box. On the other it runs at reduced speed.

 Sad
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November 13, 2014, 08:04:41 AM
I recently had remote access to an RKbox and committed some improvements to the cgminer git master branch. It appears to be performing better and more stable now, along with less rejects/dupes, much less HW errors and a little less CPU usage. Note the displayed hashrate appears lower but that's because the dodgy driver counts rejects in its hashrate which there are quite a few in the form of duplicates, but the updated driver hashrate is higher as confirmed at the pool end. I also found the sweet spot to be a frequency of 330.

Sweet spot of 330? Very nice work. Thank you!
-ck
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Ruu \o/
November 13, 2014, 05:10:05 AM
I recently had remote access to an RKbox and committed some improvements to the cgminer git master branch. It appears to be performing better and more stable now, along with less rejects/dupes, much less HW errors and a little less CPU usage. Note the displayed hashrate appears lower but that's because the dodgy driver counts rejects in its hashrate which there are quite a few in the form of duplicates, but the updated driver hashrate is higher as confirmed at the pool end. I also found the sweet spot to be a frequency of 330.
legendary
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November 12, 2014, 08:46:08 PM
I use the download from the official Rockminer website. Its the only one that identifies as RMU. Open the folder and highlight/ edit the start file.
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November 12, 2014, 08:36:21 PM
I just noticed something, im using Icarus drivers (0: LIR...), you are using the Rockminer drivers (0: RMU..), that MAY be my problem..
only problem is i cant get RMU drivers to kick in and run the device.
legendary
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November 12, 2014, 06:14:00 PM
ck has a pretty thorough debug breakdown but you need to dig in the cgminer thread for the details on how to run it.
I will admit once again though that a bad USB cable was the cause of very high error rate when I got my first one. Since then I have noticed that none of my units like long USB cables plugged into them.
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November 12, 2014, 05:35:08 PM


It May be the version of software or something as simple as a bad USB cable, I've been through that as well.

well, without ripping appart the miner and redoing the sinks (i'll do that once i get enough parts together) i can't work out why I'm getting 50% hardware, even in BFGminer its the same.

you're getting 9.39% even with the bad hardware.

the question i have is: is there any way of debugging this thing? or is bfgminer the only way to see every chipset stats?
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November 12, 2014, 01:48:50 PM
Is there a Sep. financial report/update coming soon? Thanks

We will combine September and October report together by considerring Oct has passed two third.

Any updates??

basically no updates or information for september or october.

Maybe an update on RM's involvment with AMhash? what revenue is the company pulling in from this endeavour? Is RM personally self mining? whats the hashrate or why not?
Are RM just taking a back seat until AMgen4?



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September 13th, 2014 - Update and Dividends of August can be visited at : http://blog.rockminer.com/t/7/

July 28th, 2014 - Financial report of ROCKMINER will be opened on 29th July.


ROCKMINER TEAM

June 26th, 2014 - the ROCKMINER (ROCK) Fund Will be open for trading on HavelockInvestments.com starting Friday at 9:00 A.M GMT

Thank you,

Rockminer
Havelock Investments
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November 12, 2014, 01:40:55 PM
Is there a Sep. financial report/update coming soon? Thanks

We will combine September and October report together by considerring Oct has passed two third.

Any updates??
legendary
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ASIC Wannabe
November 09, 2014, 03:48:27 PM
Anyone know how many "blades" can run on Rockminers Rockminerweb?
I've got a new style R-Box running alongside my RK-Box via Rockminerweb v0.9.3 and was wondering if I could just keep adding more R-Box miners??

at least 8 (I can run 2 rkboxes on both an RPi and on a cubie a10), i imagine more can be handled as its effectively cgminer and thus shouldnt be capped in the software.   Bigger issue is how powerful the CPU of your interface (RPi or cubieboard?) is. A cubie would likely handle more units than an RPi due to more powerful core
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November 09, 2014, 12:12:28 PM
Anyone know how many "blades" can run on Rockminers Rockminerweb?
I've got a new style R-Box running alongside my RK-Box via Rockminerweb v0.9.3 and was wondering if I could just keep adding more R-Box miners??
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November 06, 2014, 01:58:11 AM
Would it really be profitable to use the rockminer's T1? Consuming 1000 watts per unit, and add on that you need your own PSU, lets say with about $0.095 per kwh, It would consume $0.095 per hour, right? And makes about $0.21 (current market value) USD if turned from BTC.... I can make a $0.115 profit from using the miner. to find out days, let's multiply these factors by 24 (to find out 24 hours in a day)
$0.21*24 = $5.04 produced
$0.095*24 = $2.28 cost for power
and the total profit (produced - cost for power)
$0.115*24 = $2.765
Now the price of a rocketminer (going to use zoomhash for this if you would like to check) is about $350, plus a power supply unit, (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182188) would be $130, plus or minus $15 depending on the unit. So,
350 + 130 = $480.
To figure out how many hours you'd have to mine let's divide the hourly profit from the total price of hardware.
$480 / $0.115 = 4173.91304 hours.
So, 4173.913 hours to make an ROI at current market price. to find days,
4173.913/24 = 173.913042 days, or 174 days to make your Return of investment (how much you paid to begin with)

... Is this even viable.. making $2.765 dollars a day per miner...?

Then the question arises.. If it's so profitable to mine, why don't companies that make the ASICS use it themselves?

Anyone willing to answer, share thoughts or comments is truly welcome because I was looking into purchasing 3 Rockminer T1's.. But after the math...

Also - what about heat? How much heat is produced per unit? Even with fans, heat has to go somewhere.. That somewhere being the room the miners are in. So about how much is produced if anyone has had or has one I'd appreciate it.

*NOTE: THIS IS NOT IN ANYWAY 100% ACCURATE, PRICE OF BTC CHANGES CONSTANTLY AND IS SOMETIMES NOT PREDICTABLE.
**NOTE: I used Coinwarz.com to find out this information at an OVERCLOCKED miner which has a hash of 900gh/s MAX.. but the hourly mined would be $0.19, and the profit would be about $0.95 (US AVERAGE FOR SOUTHEAST RESIDENCE) if you had it at the stable clock of 800gh/s.
***NOTE: Price of powering the units may change according to your location.

I have 10 of these units, so:

10,000 watts @ $0.10 kWh leaves you with roughly 0.06 to 0.08 BTC per day after paying electricity (real world earnings not based on statistics). Regarding heat you can calculate the BTU's off the watts. Personally I use an insulated two car garage with industrial window fans pulling some 10,000 CFM of air in/out.

That's ~2.2 BTC a month profit if the difficulty never changes. When mining Bitcoins you should expect roughly a 25% return on you initial investment. I guess the question should be, is ~25% "so profitable"? I'm cool with it. Cool



legendary
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November 04, 2014, 04:39:15 AM


+1 i know mining industry is quite rough now, but the basics remain the customers when your BP implies selling them HW.

last pages here are quite depressing. hence +1 also on this:

ROCKMINERS Research & Development Theory

" LET THE MINERS FIGURE IT OUT"


Truth. They won't even give the documentation to the software writers.

come on rockxie you can do better.
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