Topic: Thread about GPU-mining and Litecoin - page 2. (Read 33227 times)

IMO Litecoin loses its point unless its CPU only

The original purpose of Litecoin is to be a CPU coin where anybody with their computer can mine litecoins. What has happened with Bitcoin is that GPU mining on bitcoin was a lot more efficient, so a lot of people starting mining bitcoins with GPUs. This pumped up the difficulty and made CPU mining unprofitable and therefore pointless. I don't want this to happen to Litecoin and I think most people agree with me on this.

Recently, there has been some rumors that mtrlt has modified his GPU miner to work with Litecoin. And he claims to have been able to create a GPU miner that outperforms CPU miner by a lot. Of course, all this could be FUD thrown at Litecoin by Solidcoin supporters. But I have talked to mtrlt about this and he seems genuine. So I'd like to get to the bottom of this.

Here's what I'd like to accomplish:
1) Figure out if GPU mining litecoins is indeed more efficient. And if so how much better is it.
2) Do we want to switch to a new hashing algorithm that is more GPU-hostile.
3) If we do want to switch, there are a ton of other questions. Can we modify scrypt params or do we need something totally different. How far away do we do the algorithm switch? How do we get miners/pools/clients ready for the switch so that there's no downtime?

Everyone, please refrain from SolidCoin bashing in this thread. And SolidCoin supporters, please refrain from posting unless you have something constructive to say. Thanks.

What's your opencl runtime/SDK version?

I'm getting this:
Using Windows 7, with 2x 5850. I find it strange that it detects only 1 device, but in reality, there are 2.

I still don't know what is in the code.

Some one has to reverse engineer it to know what it has, it may be sending some information or anything to those who need.

It works on my Win 7 , 64 bit with out any problems, but in the beginning, it gave some errors, now working at  
~226kH/s on a 5870 running at 850/1200 clk.

This is my screen. I still don't know why other cant mine.
Also its very strange that most hero members who against it not saying anything about testing or working or not working.....

The kernel build uses code that is specific for 58xx or 69xx GPUs... only people who own those may mine, it crashes or mines stales for everyone else.

This is my screen. I still don't know why other cant mine.

7220844fab32072fc4279436f330bb76     reaperv13_demo.zip

I did download from there, though: http://solidcoin.info/reaper.html. I don't have the file I downloaded on this very computer, I'll post md5sum of the file I grabbed tomorrow, if someone wants to compare with their own hash.

7220844fab32072fc4279436f330bb76  litecoin-reaperv13_demo.zip
7bc0ee636b3b83484fc3b9348863bd22  litecoin-reaperv13_demo\litecoin-reaper.cl
0f6e06a7cd747d317f7c8b441e0cd946  litecoin-reaperv13_demo\litecoin.conf
5757f08f18556c6cf1beabb51579cfa1  litecoin-reaperv13_demo\curl.dll
53cf7caa93ca6d827061d67719a99c34  litecoin-reaperv13_demo\litecoin-reaperv13.Cayman.bin
3cd768d7dd0874b8ea6639aa0ac03a5f  litecoin-reaperv13_demo\litecoin-reaperv13.Cypress.bin
544f3050ffe55e6b423695331e581bbd  litecoin-reaperv13_demo\reaper.conf
3a86a0088cc1e05a54c5d2708ecb2f9d  litecoin-reaperv13_demo\pthread.dll
f010428b110180e138d15e8ba1839c59  litecoin-reaperv13_demo\reaperDEMO.exe

No idea. Its not connecting connecting sneakily another pool in my system.
It seems your download is affected with some virus or trojan or any other malwares.

u have to put it in litecoin.conf & just run reaperdemo.exe without any arguments.
Litecoin.conf for
host mine.pool-x.eu
port 9332
user urpoolname with worker like xxx.1
pass ur password for pool