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    ASICs and BOINC

    Remember when I thought of using ASICs for BOINC, like with Bitcoins and other crypto currency?
    Instead of ASICS coming to BOINC(projects), crypto currency mining has come to BOINC -even bringing their infernal ASICs with them.

    The well-known cruncher Ste\/e is crunching at the speed of up to 944 million credits a day on Bitcoin Utopia at the moment!
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    ASICs and BOINC

    The well known cruncher SteVe used to be an AMD User named PoorBoy (mentioned in the last post on the first page of this enormous POST) He used to have a web site with his prized hot rod he built but it seems I have the old bookmark, its just not resolving anymore!





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    Me thinks Poorboy has run into quite some money somewhere along his road to SETI.USA:
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    Speaking of Bitcoin Utopia: I just can't get WUs credited that run on either AMD CPUs or WUs on Linux boxes (the combination can be guessed)
    The problems seem to be connectivity to a US server, but why can my Intel i7 CPU running Windows 8.1 have no problems?


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    I don't think anyone of us (AMD Users) can figure that problem out for you. Message boards and Question & Answers will do you the most good at this point!

    Meanwhile I completed the App_config file myself and it worked, oh ok it worked the second time after some small adjustments!
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    I cannot get an app_info.xml file to work for me on a twin nVidia GTX460 GPU machine for Bitcoin Utopia. I get a msg that the app_info is incorrect. Without it all CUDA tasks go Computation error at 3 seconds.

    Why are these darned xml files so tricky? Why don't the projects have a list of them available that work!

    This whole BOINC game is getting tedious.

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    should be saved as an app_config.xml in the project's sub- folder, not an app_info. app_info is 'old style'

    http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Clien..._configuration
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    Richard haselgrove summarised it better:
    "app_info has to be used if you want to use an application (program) different from the one supplied automatically by the project.
    app_config can be used to modify a limited number of the parameters for running a task - and yes, it can be used in conjunction with app_info, though it can be used with the stock application too. Think of it perhaps as 'app_info lite'.
    A big advantage of app_config is that you can change it, and then 'Read config files' while BOINC is running. The changes take effect immediately. Because app_info is the 'heavy' version, you have to shut down BOINC and re-start it for changes to take effect."

    Whilst the project could set these ( previous posts ) as default settings, they would not suit the general populus, so they leave it for us to tweak.
    And the fact that we can, or choose not to, is a great feature.
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    <app_config>
    <app>
    <name>lineA-cudaminer</name>
    <gpu_versions>
    <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
    <gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage>
    <cpu_usage>0.1</cpu_usage>
    </gpu_versions>
    </app>

    <app>
    <name>cpuminer-bu-20140211</name>
    <cpu_versions>
    <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
    <cpu_usage>1.0</cpu_usage>
    </cpu_versions>
    </app>

    Wont wor'k for CUDA, cpu tasks run fine. This is with Bitcoin Utopia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vaughan View Post
    <app_config>
    <app>
    <name>lineA-cudaminer</name>
    <gpu_versions>
    <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
    <gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage>
    <cpu_usage>0.1</cpu_usage>
    </gpu_versions>
    </app>

    <app>
    <name>cpuminer-bu-20140211</name>
    <cpu_versions>
    <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
    <cpu_usage>1.0</cpu_usage>
    </cpu_versions>
    </app>

    Wont wor'k for CUDA, cpu tasks run fine. This is with Bitcoin Utopia.
    <app_config>
    <app>
    <name>lineA-cudaminer</name>
    <gpu_versions>
    <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
    <gpu_usage>0.5</gpu_usage>
    <cpu_usage>0.1</cpu_usage>
    </gpu_versions>
    </app>

    <app>
    <name>cpuminer-bu-20140211</name>
    <cpu_versions>
    <max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
    <cpu_usage>1.0</cpu_usage>
    </cpu_versions>
    </app>
    </app_config>

    333 MHs Block Erupter USB Miners are sold 2nd hand for 8 Euro's over here,
    2 GHs USB Antminers go for 25 Euro.
    5 GHs Red Fury USB Miners go for 50 Euro.
    You could use them as a sort of co-processor, running the rest of your projects just like before.
    Perhaps we should ask MiHost how he's doing it?
    Last edited by Dirk Broer; 07-12-2014 at 08:42 AM.


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