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turbokrist preview - The first-ever GPU Accelerated Krist miner

Started by apemanzilla, 09 January 2016 - 05:43 PM
apemanzilla #1
Posted 09 January 2016 - 06:43 PM
Edit: Turbokrist has been released!

I've been working on a GPU accelerated miner for Krist, and it's coming along quite well…



These speeds are from running it on an EVGA GTX 760 with little optimization.
Edited on 15 February 2016 - 09:22 PM
Creator #2
Posted 09 January 2016 - 06:53 PM
Mind sharing the code? :P/>
apemanzilla #3
Posted 09 January 2016 - 06:59 PM
Mind sharing the code? :P/>

Not sharing it at all yet. Still under heavy development.
Lignum #4
Posted 09 January 2016 - 09:30 PM


It works very well with SLI too :)/>! Though this is quite expensive to run… a single GPU takes up around 85% TDP. For the GTX 760 Ti this is 144.5W, double that amount to 289W since there's two GPUs. It'd cost me 1.12€/month to run for 1 hour every day (assuming electricity costs 13ct/kWh).
apemanzilla #5
Posted 09 January 2016 - 09:54 PM


It works very well with SLI too :)/>! Though this is quite expensive to run… a single GPU takes up around 85% TDP. For the GTX 760 Ti this is 144.5W, double that amount to 289W since there's two GPUs. It'd cost me 1.12€/month to run for 1 hour every day (assuming electricity costs 13ct/kWh).

It doesn't actually care about SLI at all - it will use each device individually. If you had two graphics cards installed, but no SLI, it would still work fine. In fact, having it use SLI instead of each device individually would probably decrease performance, if anything.
minizbot2012 #6
Posted 10 January 2016 - 03:18 AM
I could test it on a 970 for ya if you wanted.
apemanzilla #7
Posted 10 January 2016 - 03:49 AM
I could test it on a 970 for ya if you wanted.

Not likely to happen until release. Sorry!
minizbot2012 #8
Posted 10 January 2016 - 04:01 AM
I could test it on a 970 for ya if you wanted.

Not likely to happen until release. Sorry!

Worth a shot :(/>

When do you plan to release?
apemanzilla #9
Posted 10 January 2016 - 04:42 AM
I could test it on a 970 for ya if you wanted.

Not likely to happen until release. Sorry!

Worth a shot :(/>

When do you plan to release?

Once I finish ironing out bugs.
Quartz101 #10
Posted 11 January 2016 - 11:10 AM
I could test it on a 970 for ya if you wanted.

Not likely to happen until release. Sorry!

Worth a shot :(/>

When do you plan to release?

Once I finish ironing out bugs.

When will that be?
apemanzilla #11
Posted 11 January 2016 - 12:43 PM
That will be once I'm satisfied with how it runs and it no longer crashes the GPU driver.
apemanzilla #12
Posted 14 January 2016 - 10:48 PM
Brand new R9 390 has broken 1 GH/s!

Waitdev_ #13
Posted 15 January 2016 - 02:16 AM
i wonder how this would perform on a macbook air
Anavrins #14
Posted 15 January 2016 - 03:58 AM
I wonder how this would perform on my dead GPU *cries*
apemanzilla #15
Posted 15 January 2016 - 03:38 PM
i wonder how this would perform on a macbook air

Not too well, but I'd say it would work at least as well, if not better, than a CPU-based miner. I've reached 3 MH/s on the integrated graphics of an Intel Atom in my laptop :P/>

I wonder how this would perform on my dead GPU *cries*

Approximately 0 hashes per second I would guess… :(/>
Creator #16
Posted 15 January 2016 - 03:58 PM
I wonder how this would perform on my dead GPU *cries*

How did it break? Overheating?

Is there no way to repair it? (As to reach 1 hash/s)
Anavrins #17
Posted 15 January 2016 - 06:22 PM
It stopped working last summer, not doing anything intensive, 10 minutes after bootup, this happens https://dl.dropboxus...828/ripgpu.jpeg
It's an ATI Radeon HD 6990M 2GB on an old Alienware m17xR3 (yes I know)
I still have the GPU laying around in case somebody can prove to me there's no way to recover it :P/>
apemanzilla #18
Posted 15 January 2016 - 07:33 PM
It stopped working last summer, not doing anything intensive, 10 minutes after bootup, this happens https://dl.dropboxus...828/ripgpu.jpeg
It's an ATI Radeon HD 6990M 2GB on an old Alienware m17xR3 (yes I know)
I still have the GPU laying around in case somebody can prove to me there's no way to recover it :P/>

Bake it in the oven for a bit. No, I'm not kidding.
Edited on 15 January 2016 - 06:33 PM
Creator #19
Posted 15 January 2016 - 09:42 PM
It stopped working last summer, not doing anything intensive, 10 minutes after bootup, this happens https://dl.dropboxus...828/ripgpu.jpeg
It's an ATI Radeon HD 6990M 2GB on an old Alienware m17xR3 (yes I know)
I still have the GPU laying around in case somebody can prove to me there's no way to recover it :P/>

Bake it in the oven for a bit. No, I'm not kidding.

You have got nothing to lose by following a hoax!

Also, the dropbox picture is very sad. :(/>
apemanzilla #20
Posted 15 January 2016 - 11:51 PM
It stopped working last summer, not doing anything intensive, 10 minutes after bootup, this happens https://dl.dropboxus...828/ripgpu.jpeg
It's an ATI Radeon HD 6990M 2GB on an old Alienware m17xR3 (yes I know)
I still have the GPU laying around in case somebody can prove to me there's no way to recover it :P/>

Bake it in the oven for a bit. No, I'm not kidding.

You have got nothing to lose by following a hoax!

Also, the dropbox picture is very sad. :(/>

Baking a GPU is a well-known last ditch attempt. If you do it properly, it can reflow the solder just enough to restore connections that may have been broken with time.
Bomb Bloke #21
Posted 16 January 2016 - 01:09 AM
I'll back that. A cracked solder join is fixed by simply heating it to the point where it'll reflow (and yes, Anavrins, you've got the symptoms of such a crack). An oven is commonly used for this by folks who don't have a heatgun.
Waitdev_ #22
Posted 16 January 2016 - 04:13 AM
what if you used cpu & gpu if you're not using them both already?
justync7 #23
Posted 16 January 2016 - 04:24 AM
what if you used cpu & gpu if you're not using them both already?
As in Dual Mining?
Lookie Here: https://github.com/apemanzilla/MultiMiner
I would assume once ape is done working with his java miner he will surely come back to this project and make it work.
Anavrins #24
Posted 16 January 2016 - 05:03 AM
I'll back that. A cracked solder join is fixed by simply heating it to the point where it'll reflow (and yes, Anavrins, you've got the symptoms of such a crack). An oven is commonly used for this by folks who don't have a heatgun.
If this actually works, you guys are lifesavers, I did not know of that method until now :P/>
I understand it's a pretty ghetto method and might not work as intended, but at this point it's my best bet, knowing they don't do these for my laptop anymore.
Edited on 16 January 2016 - 04:05 AM
apemanzilla #25
Posted 16 January 2016 - 05:06 AM
what if you used cpu & gpu if you're not using them both already?

GPUs reach speeds in excess of 1 GH/s (1000 MH/s). CPUs reach speeds of under 50 MH/s, and that's being generous. It wouldn't help very much and would just cost you extra in power - I'll be sticking with GPU for now.

what if you used cpu & gpu if you're not using them both already?
As in Dual Mining?
Lookie Here: https://github.com/a...illa/MultiMiner
I would assume once ape is done working with his java miner he will surely come back to this project and make it work.

Once I'm done with the JavaCL miner I may work on the GPU portion of that project again.

I'll back that. A cracked solder join is fixed by simply heating it to the point where it'll reflow (and yes, Anavrins, you've got the symptoms of such a crack). An oven is commonly used for this by folks who don't have a heatgun.
If this actually works, you guys are lifesavers, I did not know of that method until now :P/>

Keep in mind that this does void your warranty, so only do this if there's nothing else to do.
Edited on 16 January 2016 - 04:07 AM
Anavrins #26
Posted 16 January 2016 - 05:45 AM
Keep in mind that this does void your warranty, so only do this if there's nothing else to do.
Expected as much, but I don't have warranty on it anymore, so it's all good :P/>
sci4me #27
Posted 16 January 2016 - 07:57 PM
Just gonna point out that this isn't actually the FIRST one… there has been at least 1 GPU miner before this one.
apemanzilla #28
Posted 16 January 2016 - 08:12 PM
Just gonna point out that this isn't actually the FIRST one… there has been at least 1 GPU miner before this one.

I doubt that. When I first created this GPU miner, I was getting 5+ blocks per minute and literally killing the Krist database by submitting so many blocks. I have heard dozens of people say they have/are making GPU miners but I have never seen any evidence of one except for this one.

And either way, this will be the first public one once I release it.
Edited on 16 January 2016 - 07:13 PM
3d6 #29
Posted 17 January 2016 - 01:17 AM
There has definitely never been a working implementation until now. Difficulty is at an all-time high, and ape is the only one mining.
Lemmmy #30
Posted 17 January 2016 - 01:17 AM
Spoiler

This looks like something similar to a vram corruption, you know.

3d6 #31
Posted 17 January 2016 - 01:22 AM
Spoiler

This looks like something similar to a vram corruption, you know.

Something is unquestionably wrong with your kristwallet installation.
___ #32
Posted 15 February 2016 - 05:54 PM
Are you done yet???
apemanzilla #33
Posted 15 February 2016 - 06:23 PM
Are you done yet???

Maybe.
___ #34
Posted 15 February 2016 - 07:04 PM

Can I have a copy, I want to test it on my GTX 970 SLI
apemanzilla #35
Posted 15 February 2016 - 07:04 PM

Can I have a copy, I want to test it on my GTX 970 SLI

Patience. It will be released soon. Ish.
___ #36
Posted 15 February 2016 - 07:06 PM

Can I have a copy, I want to test it on my GTX 970 SLI

Patience. It will be released soon. Ish.

Thanks, could you PM me when you do release it? I don't want to miss it. My desktop is %17.5 more powerful than a Titan X so I would just like to test it… Overclocking all the way!
Creator #37
Posted 15 February 2016 - 07:09 PM
I want to try it on my integrated Intel GPU too.
___ #38
Posted 15 February 2016 - 07:15 PM
I want to try it on my integrated Intel GPU too.

I have an old Nforce MB laying around… That will be fun…
apemanzilla #39
Posted 15 February 2016 - 07:15 PM

Can I have a copy, I want to test it on my GTX 970 SLI

Patience. It will be released soon. Ish.

Thanks, could you PM me when you do release it? I don't want to miss it. My desktop is %17.5 more powerful than a Titan X so I would just like to test it… Overclocking all the way!

There will be a forum post when it's released.

Also, AMD is far superior to Nvidia for Krist mining. I'm hitting 1.3 GH/s on an R9 390.
___ #40
Posted 15 February 2016 - 07:24 PM

Can I have a copy, I want to test it on my GTX 970 SLI

Patience. It will be released soon. Ish.

Thanks, could you PM me when you do release it? I don't want to miss it. My desktop is %17.5 more powerful than a Titan X so I would just like to test it… Overclocking all the way!

There will be a forum post when it's released.

Also, AMD is far superior to Nvidia for Krist mining. I'm hitting 1.3 GH/s on an R9 390.

I would have R9 390 Crossfire but I don't because my PSU is an 850w, I want like 350w of headroom for overclocking and upgrades.
apemanzilla #41
Posted 15 February 2016 - 10:22 PM
Turbokrist is now public!