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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
antw081 posted 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -176 | Link [ + ]

Sweet! I'll donate towards this task.

Wolf0 edited 8 years ago Weight: -175 | Link [ + ]

I've signed up here, and am watching this thread.

Shrikez edited 8 years ago Weight: -176 | Link [ + ]

Glad to see this is finally happening. However I'd like to see more challenging numbers as for the performance and related payouts. What is also missing in my opinion is the power draw issue. 10% faster at 10% more power is still nice but would leave pretty much only the Open Source factor as important improvement (which of course would still be great). Just throwing this out there, will donate whether these issues get picked up or not.

EDIT: I think it would be very useful if AMD miners with the possibility to do that would provide Wolf0 with numbers for power draw and performance with Claymore's. As soon as I get my hands on my tools I can provide numbers for 280x (in about 10 days from now)

Dufkin posted 8 years ago Weight: -176 | Link [ + ]

Awesome. I really like the idea that we are funding both Nvidia and ATI miner so that no one gets left behind with non-open-source miner. I'll donate some as soon as the project started. I am really curious which of the two funded miners will be ready to use first and also which one will get better perfomance ;-)

AJIekceu4 edited 8 years ago Weight: -174 | Link [ + ]

Very good, ready to donate. Also it will be very good, if miner will have function for low_intencity. So no freeze or any visual lag, then videocard use for mining and user use browser or word|excel, etc... It will be good, because you can start mining and doing your daily work.

Hueristic posted 8 years ago Weight: -175 | Link [ + ]

Just finished selling all my 270's Lol.

Lloydimiller4 posted 8 years ago Weight: -175 | Link [ + ]

Wallet is ready to donate 1K XMR, I've been waiting for this for a -long- time. Glad to see it is finally getting done, and thanks Wolf0! :D

Reply to: antw081
antw081 posted 8 years ago Weight: -174 | Link [ + ]

250 XMR sent.

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

no miner here, but I get why this is important :) 50 XMR incoming.

ps: wolf0 just said on irc that he's almost finisehd with milestone #1

yay!

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

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

2000 XMR Send as i promised for AMD Miner.

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

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

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

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

1000 sent

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

50 XMR sent.