Testing Ccminer For Decred

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  1. Reynold

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    Ok, I've been running cgminer for a while, but have been looking for a cuda compatible miner to work with my Nvidia card.

    Found this:
    http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/decred-cuda-miner/

    So far I've been getting ~422 mh/s as compared to the ~375 mh/s using cgminer.

    I'm sure I have more tweaking to do, but my bat file looks like this:
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    ccminer.exe -a decred --cert "C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Dcrd\rpc.cert" -o https://127.0.0.1:9109 -u YourUserName -p YourPassword -o http://dcr.suprnova.cc:9110 -u YourUserName.YourWorkerName -p YourPoolPassword 
    
    Thoughts?
     
  2. kendie

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  3. Reynold

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    In this command, I'm hitting 2 pools. My local pool, and suprnova. You'll need to enter your own info.

    Or are you saying that ccminer does not work on your system? I'm running Windows.
     
  4. kendie

    kendie New Member

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    not work running windows 10~:(
     
  5. mikegi

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    Try ./ccminer --algo=blake --url=https://localhost:9109 ....

    At the moment, with my card, GTX770, ccminer reports a lower hash rate than cgminer-decred.

    ccminer about 560 MH/s
    cgminer just under 2000 MH/s
     
  6. Reynold

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    Switched back to cgminer, will test ccminer again when it matures a bit. So far, it's a good start, but seems to not want to accept my config files and won't work with CGWatcher. Parameters such as intensity don't seem to make a difference.
     
  7. sambiohazard

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    Try the x86 binaries, also i doubt your figures are correct. A 970 is giving me 1.265GH/s in ccminer so your 770 seems to be working quite right on ccminer. recheck your cgminer numbers, i dont think that is possible.
     
  8. sambiohazard

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    i dont think ccminer works with cgwatcher, also most parameters are preset for best performance on each card, i know of --cpu-priority & -i for intensity settings. although intensity is set to 26 for SM5.2 cards which is already quite high. I dont think it can go any higher. This miner seems quite optimized for decred. Also i am sure we are not going to see any monitering s/w any time soon for ccminer. This tpruvot miner comes with a web API although.
     
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  9. Reynold

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    I see, so ccminer is very optimized. It did keep my GPU temp stable, but I was actually trying to lower the intensity because my desktop was getting sluggish.

    If CGWatcher is not compatible, I may look for the web interface that works with ccminer. I guess, it does what it's supposed to do very well then.
     
  10. mikegi

    mikegi New Member

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    The GTX 770 hasn't found a block solo yet... both cgminer has at least had shares accepted on a pool.

    With cgminer, I noticed that setting --vectors to 4 increased the (reported) hashrate.

    Anyway, I'll point it at a pool with different miners and see what happens. I have used ccminer with X11 and groestl and have been happy with the results after seeing such a difference in numbers think it is worthwhile to test CUDA and OpenCL implementations.


    Regarding cgwatcher... I haven't used it, but at least cgminer and bfgminer use the same API. ccminer's API is different.
     
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