Archive for the ‘Mining Software’ Category

Updated ccMiner 1.8-dev fork by tpruvot With SM 6.0 and CUDA 8.0

28, May 2016

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Here comes another interesting update of ccMiner from tpruvot with a new Windows binary of the latest ccMiner 1.8-dev (source) that comes with Compute 6 (SM 6.0) and CUDA 8.0 support in time for the availability of the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 GPUs. The release below includes two versions of ccMiner, one is 32-bit binary for Windows that is compiled with CUDA 8.0 and with support for Compute 2.0 or newer Nvidia GPUs, and another that is 64-bit Windows binary compiled with CUDA 8.0 for Compute 5.0 or newer Nvidia GPUs. In order to use the new ccMiner with CUDA 8.0 you will have to use video drivers 362 or newer that do come with support for CUDA 8.0, so if you have not updated yet you might want to do so now. We have not done any tests to see if the new CUDA 8.0 will bring better performance or not as we still don’t have access to the new Nvidia Pascal GPUs, but as soon manage to get our hands on the new hardware we are going to be doing some testing of GTX 1080 and 1070 with ccMiner.

– To download the latest ccMiner version 1.8-dev by tpruvot for GTX 1080 and 1070 for Windows OS…

New Ethminer 0.9.41-genoil-1.1 pre-release Windows Binary

25, May 2016

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Genoil is working on a new release of his ethminer 0.9.41 fork version 1.1 pre-release (source) and here is a Windows binary of the latest version that you can try. Genoil’s fork of ethminer is targeted at Nvidia CUDA miners, but it also works on AMD OpenCL for mining of Ethereum (ETH). The latest pre-release version 1.1 is intended for testing as it brings some nice new features, but it might contain some bugs at the moment. You are welcome to download and try the compiled binary of the latest 1.1 pre-release version and test how the no need for DAG files functionality is working. Of course the miner still needs DAG data, but it is no longer stored on your hard drive in the form of large files taking up space, the data is generated when the miner is stared on the fly and it loaded into the GPUs. There is also CUDA Compute 2.0 support brought back for older Nvidia GPUs, though on these older video cards the performance might not be that great for mining Ethereum anyway (you still need 2GB of video memory). Again, this is a pre-release version 1.1 with the idea for people to try and report how the new features work and if they find any bugs, so you are welcome to try it, but be careful as there might be some bugs and it may not be 100% stable.

– To download and try the latest Ethminer 0.9.41-genoil-1.1 pre-release for Windows OS…

New Ethminer 0.9.41-genoil-1.0.8 Windows Binary

12, May 2016

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Genoil has updated his ethminer 0.9.41 fork to version 1.0.8 (source) and here is a Windows binary of the latest version that you can try. Genoil’s fork of ethminer is targeted at Nvidia CUDA miners, but it also works on AMD OpenCL for mining of Ethereum (ETH). The new version 1.0.8 has some minor bug fixes and improvements, but probably the most important new feature is the much improved output you get that is more user friendly with a single line of text reporting your current status. You are welcome to download and try the compiled binary of the latest 1.0.8 version and make sure you are also taking advantage of the recently introduced Stratum failover feature as well. Check the example BAT file for more information on how to use the new Stratum failover mode and do check out the new shorter log output with hashrate and accepted and rejected shares by the pools as well as fails.

– To download and try the latest Ethminer 0.9.41-genoil-1.0.8 for Windows OS…


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