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Open source AMD miner by Wolf0

Gingeropolous posted this 8 years ago

Gingeropolous | 8 years ago

Introduction

Who - Wolf0, renowned miner developer. Worked on the original monero solo miner and the nvidia miner. Also responsible for mining software for many other algos.

What - Open source AMD miner for Monero with solo mining support.

Why - The only AMD miner is Claymore's, and its closed source and also has a fee. In order to increase the strength of the Monero network, we need as much hashpower as we can get. Furthermore, GPU solo mining may increase the number of people running full solo nodes. Finally, Wolf0 is an excellent mining software developer with a proven track record, and has found some flaws in the monero pool software and is interested in creating a new monero pool software / architecture that will both correct these flaws and provide a means to allow an individual miner to confirm that the pool is honest. Getting him on board with this project will hopefully spur further developments.

Amount: 5750 XMR.

Milestones / Payouts / Timeframe:

1 - Working OpenCL implementation. Payout: 1000 XMR. Timeframe: 2 days

2 - Host code and pool interface. Payout 2000 XMR. Timeframe: 2 weeks

3 - Performance on a 290x. 400 h/s = 500 XMR. 400-500 h/s = 750 XMR. 500-600 h/s 1000 XMR. 600-750 h/s 2000 XMR. Timeframe: 2 weeks.

4 - Solo mining support. Payout: 750 XMR. Timeframe: open-ended

Conditions for payouts:

1 - it works. Code is released open source. License to be determined, but it will NOT be GPL. Perhaps MIT or WTFPL.

2 - Software is released open source via github. Compiled binaries are released for all major platforms. Software is as user friendly as possible. Software can be customized using configuration files.

update

beta of first versions https://github.com/wolf9466/wolf-xmr-miner/releases/tag/0.1

Replies: 54
Luzer edited 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -165 | Link [ + ]

Any special version of OpenCl needed?

I was going to get this version: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/OpenCL2-Driver.aspx

Reply to: palexander
Wolf0 posted 8 years ago Weight: -165 | Link [ + ]

Done: https://github.com/wolf9466/wolf-xmr-miner/releases/tag/0.1

Reply to: palexander
Gingeropolous posted 8 years ago Weight: -165 | Link [ + ]

thats how I read the "contract" as well - payouts upon release of binaries and release of open source code. Furthermore, user friendliness is a stipulation of payout but is unfortunately not defined and apparently can have a range of interpretations. I, for one, include "instructions for compiling on a fresh Ubuntu install" in my definition of user friendliness.

palexander posted 8 years ago Replies: 2 | Weight: -165 | Link [ + ]

If my understanding is correct, binaries are released continually throughout the process of development before payouts can be made. Am I reading the initial contract incorrectly?

snakes edited 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -165 | Link [ + ]

FWIW, I can confirm running wolf's miner on Win 8.1 on two of my AMD cards: 290 (at 406 H/s) and 280x (at 333 H/s):

http://imgur.com/b4NF5Ud

Cheers,

snakes

Reply to: Gingeropolous Wolf0
Wolf0 posted 8 years ago Weight: -165 | Link [ + ]

I'd like people who know what they're doing to test before I release Windows binaries. As for dependencies, just jansson. To compile, just make.

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Gingeropolous posted 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -166 | Link [ + ]

binaries? compile instructions? list of dependencies?

Wolf0 edited 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -166 | Link [ + ]

Miner works now; the code for the stratum and general stuff is fully custom, as well. Clears 400H/s on 290X, meeting the first performance milestone, as the OpenCL has been improved.

EDIT: Here it is: https://github.com/wolf9466/wolf-xmr-miner

ArticMine posted 8 years ago Weight: -167 | Link [ + ]

Donated 718.67 XMR Open source AMD miner by Wolf0 is now at 100% funding.

link posted 8 years ago Weight: -169 | Link [ + ]

50 XMR sent.

pa edited 8 years ago Weight: -168 | Link [ + ]

1000 sent

Wolf0 edited 8 years ago Weight: -170 | Link [ + ]

Finished the first milestone. Code isn't clean and polished, but it works very well: https://github.com/wolf9466/xmr-amdocl-test

Lloydimiller4 posted 8 years ago Weight: -173 | Link [ + ]

1.5k sent, I am very happy to see this project getting done.

AJIekceu4 edited 8 years ago Weight: -173 | Link [ + ]

2000 XMR Send as i promised for AMD Miner.

Shrikez posted 8 years ago Weight: -174 | Link [ + ]

mining is a fools game in my country but here's 100 XMR for now :) tx: 211ad9ed5246e78c6c17fd69ef7a2581e6e37a04b6f7fb9d183285a9f4245a27