ccMiner release 1.0 (May 10th 2014) - "Did anyone say X11?" ------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************** If you find this tool useful and like to support its continued development, then consider a donation. 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X11 algo is being worked on. It will be released when we have achieved a nice nVidia advantage. We did not take a big effort on improving usability, so please set your parameters carefuly. THIS PROGRAMM IS PROVIDED "AS-IS", USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK! If you're interessted and read the source-code, please excuse that the most of our comments are in german. >>> Command Line Interface <<< This code is based on the pooler cpuminer 2.3.2 release and inherits its command line interface and options. -a, --algo=ALGO specify the algorithm to use heavy use to mine Heavycoin mjollnir use to mine Mjollnircoin fugue256 use to mine Fuguecoin groestl use to mine Groestlcoin myr-gr use to mine Myriad-Groestl jackpot use to mine Jackpotcoin quark use to mine Quarkcoin anime use to mine Animecoin nist5 use to mine TalkCoin x11 use to mine DarkCoin -d, --devices gives a comma separated list of CUDA device IDs to operate on. Device IDs start counting from 0! Alternatively give string names of your card like gtx780ti or gt640#2 (matching 2nd gt640 in the PC). -f, --diff Divide difficulty by this factor (std is 1) \n\ -v, --vote Heavycoin block vote (default: 512) -o, --url=URL URL of mining server (default: " DEF_RPC_URL ") -O, --userpass=U:P username:password pair for mining server -u, --user=USERNAME username for mining server -p, --pass=PASSWORD password for mining server --cert=FILE certificate for mining server using SSL -x, --proxy=[PROTOCOL://]HOST[:PORT] connect through a proxy -t, --threads=N number of miner threads (default: number of nVidia GPUs in your system) -r, --retries=N number of times to retry if a network call fails (default: retry indefinitely) -R, --retry-pause=N time to pause between retries, in seconds (default: 15) -T, --timeout=N network timeout, in seconds (default: 270) -s, --scantime=N upper bound on time spent scanning current work when long polling is unavailable, in seconds (default: 5) --no-longpoll disable X-Long-Polling support --no-stratum disable X-Stratum support -q, --quiet disable per-thread hashmeter output -D, --debug enable debug output -P, --protocol-dump verbose dump of protocol-level activities -B, --background run the miner in the background --benchmark run in offline benchmark mode -c, --config=FILE load a JSON-format configuration file -V, --version display version information and exit -h, --help display this help text and exit >>> Examples <<< Example for Heavycoin Mining on heavycoinpool.com with a single gpu in your system ccminer.exe -t 1 -a heavy -o stratum+tcp://stratum01.heavycoinpool.com:5333 -u <> -p <> -v 8 Example for Heavycoin Mining on hvc.1gh.com with a dual gpu in your system ccminer.exe -t 2 -a heavy -o stratum+tcp://hvcpool.1gh.com:5333 -u <> -p x -v 8 Example for Fuguecoin solo-mining with 4 gpu's in your system and a Fuguecoin-wallet running on localhost ccminer.exe -q -s 1 -t 4 -a fugue256 -o http://localhost:9089 -u <> -p <> Example for Fuguecoin pool mining on dwarfpool.com with all your GPUs ccminer.exe -q -a fugue256 -o stratum+tcp://erebor.dwarfpool.com:3340 -u YOURWALLETADDRESS.1 -p YOUREMAILADDRESS Example for Groestlcoin solo mining ccminer.exe -q -s 1 -a groestl -o http://127.0.0.1:1441 -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD For solo-mining you typically use -o 127.0.0.1:xxxx where xxxx represents the RPC portnumber specified in your wallet's .conf file and you have to pass the same username and password with -O as specified in the wallet's .conf file. The wallet must also be started with the -server option and the server flag in the wallet's .conf file set to 1 >>> Additional Notes <<< This code should be running on nVidia GPUs ranging from compute capability 3.0 up to compute capability 3.5. Support for Compute 2.0 has been dropped so we can more efficiently implement new algorithms using the latest hardware features. >>> RELEASE HISTORY <<< May 10th 2014 added X11, but without the bells & whistles (no killer Groestl, SIMD hash quite slow still) May 6th 2014 this adds the quark and animecoin algorithms. May 3rd 2014 add the MjollnirCoin hash algorithm for the upcomin MjollnirCoin relaunch. Add the -f (--diff) option to adjust the difficulty e.g. for the erebor Dwarfpool myr-gr SaffronCoin pool. Use -f 256 there. May 1st 2014 adapt the Jackpot algorithms to changes made by the coin developers. We keep our unique nVidia advantage because we have a way to break up the divergence. NOTE: Jackpot Hash now requires Compute 3.0 or later. April, 27 2014 this release adds Myriad-Groestl and Jackpot Coin. we apply an optimization to Jackpot that turns this into a Keccak-only CUDA coin ;) Jackpot is tested with solo--mining only at the moment. March, 27 2014 Heavycoin exchange rates soar, and as a result this coin gets some love: We greatly optimized the Hefty1 kernel for speed. Expect some hefty gains, especially on 750Ti's! By popular demand, we added the -d option as known from cudaminer. different compute capability builds are now provided until we figure out how to pack everything into a single executable in a Windows build. March, 24 2014 fixed Groestl pool support went back to Compute 1.x for cuda_hefty1.cu kernel by default after numerous reports of ccminer v0.2/v0.3 not working with HeavyCoin for some people. March, 23 2014 added Groestlcoin support. stratum status unknown (the only pool is currently down for fixing issues) March, 21 2014 use of shared memory in Fugue256 kernel boosts hash rates on Fermi and Maxwell devices. Kepler may suffer slightly (3-5%) Fixed Stratum for Fuguecoin. Tested on dwarfpool. March, 18 2014 initial release. >>> AUTHORS <<< Notable contributors to this application are: Christian Buchner, Christian H. (Germany): CUDA implementation and also many thanks to anyone else who contributed to the original cpuminer application (Jeff Garzik, pooler), it's original HVC-fork and the HVC-fork available at hvc.1gh.com Source code is included to satisfy GNU GPL V3 requirements. With kind regards, Christian Buchner ( Christian.Buchner@gmail.com ) Christian H. ( Chris84 )