[XPM] [ANN] Primecoin Release - First Scientific Computing Cryptocurrency - page 114.

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Quote from: donut on July 12, 2013, 10:03:24 AM

Anyone working on a GPU miner yet? Here's some help: http://www.macs-site.net/CudaPrimes.htm

Hopefully not, because:
1) Primecoin looks to be GPU-resistant, it will be very hard to implement calculating it's long integers on something that is design to deal only with vertices
2) GPU rigs are the cancer for mining, eliminating 99% of regular people who are not OK with the idea of monster cases with external GPUs all over the place, laptop users with no external cards, etc. Non-existence of GPU miner is the main reason for Primecoin's unusual popularity. People are successfully mining even on Raspberry Pi's.

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Quote from: Kujmandosz on July 12, 2013, 11:08:31 AM

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Quote from: Kujmandosz on July 12, 2013, 11:02:44 AM

How to set genproclimit (cpu) to maximum capacity?

You don't set a genproclimit and it uses full cpu capacity. You only set it if you want to throttle it.

So how can I throttle it?

'setgenerate true '

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Quote from: jlspartz on July 12, 2013, 11:04:42 AM

Quote from: Kujmandosz on July 12, 2013, 11:02:44 AM

How to set genproclimit (cpu) to maximum capacity?

You don't set a genproclimit and it uses full cpu capacity. You only set it if you want to throttle it.

So how can I throttle it?

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Quote from: Kujmandosz on July 12, 2013, 11:02:44 AM

How to set genproclimit (cpu) to maximum capacity?

Either 'setgenerate true' or 'setgenerate true -1' will cause it to use all capacity.

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Quote from: Kujmandosz on July 12, 2013, 11:02:44 AM

How to set genproclimit (cpu) to maximum capacity?

You don't set a genproclimit and it uses full cpu capacity. You only set it if you want to throttle it.

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How to set genproclimit (cpu) to maximum capacity?

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Quote from: jlspartz on July 12, 2013, 10:53:34 AM

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Quote from: jlspartz on July 12, 2013, 10:31:48 AM

Just installed the 0.1.1 client released not even an hour ago for windows. Was the 1st downloader of it on sourceforge. I'm getting 3 PPS. This is a i7 3940xm cpu. What's wrong?

just for reference: I have an i7-3720QM (mobile CPU, @2,6 GHz) and get close to 1000 PPS with Sunny King's latest Windows release (0.1.1). I don't know about architectural differences between your CPU and mine, but its at least the same family...

Looks like you can't set a genproclimit. I tried to do half cpu while working on the computer. I took the limit off and now its 780 using the full CPU.

Now get high 800s pps. 880 at 100% vs 3 at 50% - looks like a bug.

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Quote from: LlamaMaster on July 12, 2013, 10:56:40 AM

The problem is that it just keeps happening, and unless I constantly stare at that numbers I just end up wasting several hours of mining every time it does it. Is there seriously no way to fix this?

Get the new official client here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/primecoin/files/

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Quote from: maka on July 12, 2013, 10:24:30 AM

Quote from: Plazma on July 12, 2013, 10:16:17 AM

how do you know if you are on the wrong block chain, also witch files do you delete to re-download the blockchain.

If you find your "current number of blocks" stay the same for a long time, then you are in trouble. To be sure, you may check http://www2.crypto-expert.com/primecoin/index.php to see what is the correct number right now.

Just restart the software and it will automatically reconnect to the network and update the block chain(most probably the correct one...).

The problem is that it just keeps happening, and unless I constantly stare at that numbers I just end up wasting several hours of mining every time it does it. Is there seriously no way to fix this?

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Quote from: masterOfDisaster on July 12, 2013, 10:41:56 AM

Quote from: jlspartz on July 12, 2013, 10:31:48 AM

Just installed the 0.1.1 client released not even an hour ago for windows. Was the 1st downloader of it on sourceforge. I'm getting 3 PPS. This is a i7 3940xm cpu. What's wrong?

just for reference: I have an i7-3720QM (mobile CPU, @2,6 GHz) and get close to 1000 PPS with Sunny King's latest Windows release (0.1.1). I don't know about architectural differences between your CPU and mine, but its at least the same family...

Looks like you can't set a genproclimit. I tried to do half cpu while working on the computer. I took the limit off and now its 780 using the full CPU.

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Quote from: jlspartz on July 12, 2013, 10:31:48 AM

Just installed the 0.1.1 client released not even an hour ago for windows. Was the 1st downloader of it on sourceforge. I'm getting 3 PPS. This is a i7 3940xm cpu. What's wrong?

just for reference: I have an i7-3720QM (mobile CPU, @2,6 GHz) and get close to 1000 PPS with Sunny King's latest Windows release (0.1.1). I don't know about architectural differences between your CPU and mine, but its at least the same family...

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Quote from: mik3 on July 12, 2013, 10:23:27 AM

Is anyone who's tech savvy enough making a pool? You can make a shit ton of coins since everyone would hop right on.

I'm trying to make a p2pool, but at this point I'm not sure it could work with the block spacing already very below target.

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Quote from: maka on July 12, 2013, 10:01:48 AM

Quote from: cosurgi on July 12, 2013, 09:55:20 AM

Quote from: maka on July 12, 2013, 09:47:20 AM

I myself also jumped on the wrong chains three times already. Because the block generating is so fast now collisions are much more likely.

Block generation should be slower. 60 seconds is just too fast.

people are complaining not get blocks Cheesy

If it was set slower many miners would quit.

...at the moment it is quite fast. Block spacing is much less than 60 seconds, rather 10 seconds if I don't remember wrong. But as I recently updated my primecoin Windows client to 0.1.1 the history of the repeatedly entered "getmininginfo" outputs in the debug windows is gone and hence I can't create a precise calculation of the recent average time...

And I need to add something:

It's so exciting to be at the beginning of something as interesting as primecoin.
Thums up, Sunny King!
...finally we have a real improvement in the fields of crypto coins, which is NOT just another crap-to-coin

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Just installed the 0.1.1 client released not even an hour ago for windows. Was the 1st downloader of it on sourceforge. I'm getting 3 PPS. This is a i7 3940xm cpu. What's wrong?

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Quote from: donut on July 12, 2013, 10:03:24 AM

Anyone working on a GPU miner yet? Here's some help: http://www.macs-site.net/CudaPrimes.htm

Quote from: page you linked

This was a good test to learn the basics of Cuda, however, it is not really practical. Although it proved to be significantly faster than anything I could write to run on my CPU, it is limited to 64bit integers which for practical prime number finding are useless. The largest prime number known is 12,978,189 digits long (http://primes.utm.edu/largest.html) and I certainly do not have the math background to compete with that.

Granted, the primes Primecoin deals with are only around a hundred digits long, but that's still much too long for that code to work with.

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Quote from: Plazma on July 12, 2013, 10:16:17 AM

how do you know if you are on the wrong block chain, also witch files do you delete to re-download the blockchain.

If you find your "current number of blocks" stay the same for a long time, then you are in trouble. To be sure, you may check http://www2.crypto-expert.com/primecoin/index.php to see what is the correct number right now.

Just restart the software and it will automatically reconnect to the network and update the block chain(most probably the correct one...).

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Is anyone who's tech savvy enough making a pool? You can make a shit ton of coins since everyone would hop right on.

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how do you know if you are on the wrong block chain, also witch files do you delete to re-download the blockchain.

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Quote from: maka on July 12, 2013, 10:01:48 AM

Quote from: cosurgi on July 12, 2013, 09:55:20 AM

Quote from: maka on July 12, 2013, 09:47:20 AM

I myself also jumped on the wrong chains three times already. Because the block generating is so fast now collisions are much more likely.

Block generation should be slower. 60 seconds is just too fast.

people are complaining not get blocks Cheesy

If it was set slower many miners would quit.

You can only please some people, some of the time, and all people, none of the time.

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Anyone working on a GPU miner yet? Here's some help: http://www.macs-site.net/CudaPrimes.htm

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