ccminer/README.txt

ccMiner release 1.5.1-tpruvot (16 Dec 2014) - "Vertcoin Lyra2"
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>>> Introduction <<<

This is a CUDA accelerated mining application which handle :

HeavyCoin & MjollnirCoin
FugueCoin
GroestlCoin & Myriad-Groestl
JackpotCoin
QuarkCoin family & AnimeCoin
TalkCoin
DarkCoin and other X11 coins
NEOS blake (256 14-rounds)
BlakeCoin (256 8-rounds)
Keccak (Maxcoin)
Deep, Doom and Qubit
Pentablake (Blake 512 x5)
S3 (OneCoin)
Lyra2RE (new VertCoin algo)

where some of these coins have a VERY NOTABLE nVidia advantage
over competing AMD (OpenCL Only) implementations.

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
                          anime       use to mine Animecoin
                          blake       use to mine NEOS (Blake 256)
                          blakecoin   use to mine Old Blake 256
                          deep        use to mine Deepcoin
                          dmd-gr      use to mine Diamond-Groestl
                          fresh       use to mine Freshcoin
                          fugue256    use to mine Fuguecoin
                          groestl     use to mine Groestlcoin
                          heavy       use to mine Heavycoin
                          jackpot     use to mine Jackpotcoin
                          keccak      use to mine Maxcoin
                          luffa       use to mine Doomcoin
                          lyra2       use to mine Vertcoin
                          mjollnir    use to mine Mjollnircoin
                          myr-gr      use to mine Myriad-Groest
                          nist5       use to mine TalkCoin
                          penta       use to mine Joincoin / Pentablake
                          quark       use to mine Quarkcoin
                          qubit       use to mine Qubit Algo
                          s3          use to mine 1coin
                          whirl       use to mine Whirlcoin
                          x11         use to mine DarkCoin
                          x14         use to mine X14Coin
                          x15         use to mine Halcyon
                          x17         use to mine X17

  -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).

  -i, --intensity       GPU threads per call 8-31 (default: 0=auto)
                        Decimals are allowed for fine tuning
  -f, --diff            Divide difficulty by this factor (std is 1)
  -v, --vote            Heavycoin block vote (default: 512)
  -o, --url=URL         URL of mining server
  -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)
  -N, --statsavg        number of samples used to display hashrate (default: 30)
      --no-gbt          disable getblocktemplate support (height check in solo)
      --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, --api-bind        IP/Port for the miner API (default: 127.0.0.1:4068)
      --benchmark       run in offline benchmark mode
      --cputest         debug hashes from cpu algorithms
  -c, --config=FILE     load a JSON-format configuration file
      --no-color        disable colored console output
  -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 -t 1 -a heavy -o stratum+tcp://stratum01.heavycoinpool.com:5333 -u <<username.worker>> -p <<workerpassword>> -v 8


Example for Heavycoin Mining on hvc.1gh.com with a dual gpu in your system
    ccminer -t 2 -a heavy -o stratum+tcp://hvcpool.1gh.com:5333/ -u <<WALLET>> -p x -v 8


Example for Fuguecoin solo-mining with 4 gpu's in your system and a Fuguecoin-wallet running on localhost
    ccminer -q -s 1 -t 4 -a fugue256 -o http://localhost:9089/ -u <<myusername>> -p <<mypassword>>


Example for Fuguecoin pool mining on dwarfpool.com with all your GPUs
    ccminer -q -a fugue256 -o stratum+tcp://erebor.dwarfpool.com:3340/ -u YOURWALLETADDRESS.1 -p YOUREMAILADDRESS


Example for Groestlcoin solo mining
    ccminer -q -s 1 -a groestl -o http://127.0.0.1:1441/ -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD


For solo-mining you typically use -o http://127.0.0.1:xxxx where xxxx represents
the rpcport number specified in your wallet's .conf file and you have to pass the same username
and password with -O (or -u -p) as specified in the wallet config.

The wallet must also be started with the -server option and/or with the server=1 flag in the .conf file


>>> API and Monitoring <<<

With the -b parameter you can open your ccminer to your network, use -b 0.0.0.0:4068 if required.
On windows, setting 0.0.0.0 will ask firewall permissions on the first launch. Its normal.

Default API feature is only enabled for localhost queries by default, on port 4068.

You can test this api on linux with "telnet <miner-ip> 4068" and type "help" to list the commands.
Default api format is delimited text. If required a php json wrapper is present in api/ folder.

I plan to add a json format later, if requests are formatted in json too..


>>> 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 <<<

  Dec. 16th 2014  v1.5.1
                  Add lyra2RE algo for Vertcoin based on djm34/vtc code
                  Multiple shares support (2 for the moment)
                  X11 optimisations (From klaust and sp-hash)
                  HTML5 WebSocket api compatibility (see api/websocket.htm)
                  Solo mode height checks with getblocktemplate rpc calls

  Nov. 27th 2014  v1.5.0
                  Upgrade compat jansson to 2.6 (for windows)
                  Add pool mining.set_extranonce support
                  Allow intermediate intensity with decimals
                  Update prebuilt x86 openssl lib to 1.0.1i
                  Fix heavy algo on linux (broken since 1.4)
                  Some internal changes to use the C++ compiler
                  New API 1.2 with some new commands (read only)
                  Add some of sp x11/x15 optimisations (and tsiv x13)

  Nov. 15th 2014  v1.4.9
                  Support of nvml and nvapi(windows) to monitor gpus
                  Fix (again) displayed hashrate for multi gpus systems
                    Average is now made by card (30 scans of the card)
                  Final API v1.1 (new fields + histo command)
                  Add support of telnet queries "telnet 127.0.0.1 4068"
                  add histo api command to get performance debug details
                  Add a rig sample php ui using json wrapper (php)
                  Restore quark/jackpot previous speed (differently)

  Nov. 12th 2014  v1.4.8
                  Add a basic API and a sample php json wrapper
                  Add statsavg (def 20) and api-bind parameters

  Nov. 11th 2014  v1.4.7
                  Average hashrate (based on the 20 last scans)
                  Rewrite blake algo
                  Add the -i (gpu threads/intensity parameter)
                  Add some X11 optimisations based on sp_ commits
                  Fix quark reported hashrate and benchmark mode for some algos
                  Enhance json config file param (int/float/false) (-c config.json)
                  Update windows prebuilt curl to 7.38.0

  Oct. 26th 2014  v1.4.6
                  Add S3 algo reusing existing code (onecoin)
                  Small X11 (simd512) enhancement

  Oct. 20th 2014  v1.4.5
                  Add keccak algo from djm34 repo (maxcoin)
                  Curl 7.35 and OpenSSL are now included in the binary (and win tree)
                  Enhance windows terminal support (--help was broken)

  Sep. 27th 2014  v1.4.4
                  First SM 5.2 Release (GTX 970 & 980)
                  CUDA Runtime included in binary
                  Colors enabled by default

  Sep. 10th 2014  v1.4.3
                  Add algos from djm34 repo (deep, doom, qubit)
                  Goalcoin seems to be dead, not imported.
                  Create also the pentablake algo (5x Blake 512)

  Sept  6th 2014  Almost twice the speed on blake256 algos with the "midstate" cache

  Sep.  1st 2014  add X17, optimized x15 and whirl
                  add blake (256 variant)
                  color support on Windows,
                  remove some dll dependencies (pthreads, msvcp)

  Aug. 18th 2014  add X14, X15, Whirl, and Fresh algos,
                  also add colors and nvprof cmd line support

  June 15th 2014  add X13 and Diamond Groestl support.
                  Thanks to tsiv and to Bombadil for the contributions!

  June 14th 2014  released Killer Groestl quad version which I deem
                  sufficiently hard to port over to AMD. It isn't
                  the fastest option for Compute 3.5 and 5.0 cards,
                  but it is still much faster than the table based
                  versions.

  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): Initial CUDA implementation

djm34, tsiv, sp for cuda algos implementation and optimisation

Tanguy Pruvot : 750Ti tuning, blake, colors, general code cleanup/opts
                API monitoring, linux Config/Makefile and vstudio stuff...

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 )
   Tanguy Pruvot ( tpruvot@github )