[ANN] beeeeer.org - Primecoin mining pool!

[mhps]

The probablity of finding an n+1 chain is about 10 times smaller than finding an n chain. So giving all chains the same weight you are inviting shorter chains -- people will mod the miner to find and submit tons of shorter chains. That is why ypool changed its policy at http://community.ypool.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=63 to give more weight to the longer chains. Then payout is calculated according to weighted chains (share) counts.

But I think ypool is over doing it. Now it's really the 9 chains that really count. It feels a little like soloing.

[theprofileth]

Would be cool if your pool calculated the weight of the shares based on the actual difficulty of each one precisely. You could wait until after a block to do the calculations if you don't want to have to worry about demanding processing, plus you got like 2999 blocks before it needs to be calculated anyways lol

[xolokram]

i'm aware of that. i think - like mhps - ypool's ratio is too aggressive. after we'll find the first block we'll have ~53 hours before confirmations are through and the first payout (which i guess will be quite uninteresting since it will be hard for someone to reach the 3 XPMs) will be executed. we can figure out a ratio until then.

atm i dont recommend to use the jhPrimeminer, there's a problem with the share submission code too, i will check the code. please use my miner instead.

- xolokram

[ig0tik3d]

how about 64 bit client version ... seems it will be more fast or i am wrong?

[super3]

This seems really great. If this turns out alright I could help with the website stuff.

[manawenuz]

i cannot mine using your miner unfortunately 
i'm trying your miner on my core i5-2450M sandybridge , i've compiled it exactly like hp10 with only difference that i made it using make -f make.unix primeminer , it built successfully , but doesn't work , here's how i execute it :
primeminer -pooluser=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -poolpassword=0 -poolip=beeeeer.org -genproclimit=4
here's what i get :
http://pastebin.com/QybCxJ99

what should i do ?
PS : i did the same on my fedora machine and it's working just fine !!
PPS : i forgot to tell you that my computer is running ubuntu 13.10 beta AMD 64

[manawenuz]

is there a way to get performance metrics ?

[mhps]

is there a way to get performance metrics ?

http://www.beeeeer.org/user/<your address> will tell how many chains you have found. You can time it can get chains/hour.

[xolokram]

Hello

@ig0tik3d:
yup, good idea. i will look into that as i have to configure/install mingw for 64bit and build all the libs again.
i'm currently not on a windows machine, please be patient.

@super3:
ok. atm i think the minimal website is sufficient (form-follows-function )
thx anyway, we'll come back to the offer, when everything works.

@manawenuz:
looks like an uncommon error, let's debug, can you change the following line of makefile.unix:
DEBUGFLAGS=
into
DEBUGFLAGS=-g
and (install gdb (`sudo apt-get install gdb`) and) run
gdb --args primeminer -pooluser=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -poolpassword=0 -poolip=beeeeer.org -genproclimit=1
there will be a prompt, type in "run", wait for it to crash, then type in "bt", and PM me the console output of gdb

+

the miner should give you an output like this every minute:
2001-01-01 05:11:16 primemeter   6275420 prime/h 149684368 test/h  720 5-chains/h 1.643551 chain/d
5-chains/hour and chains/day and the old prime/hour (calculate primes/s) should give you a hint about your performance

@all:

gentlemen, we've found a block: http://www.beeeeer.org/block/151881 with ~33k shares
payout will be executed in ~50 hours. i think i will execute it manually to monitor the whole process
everything has to start small, right? gj

- xolokram

ps. pool restart incoming (minor code changes/bugfixes)

[ig0tik3d]

jhPrimeminer should work too, but mumus version has a bug in the 'getwork'-protocol (refering v7.1, see attachment for fix)

what port i need set to connect to pool with jhPrimeminer?

[xolokram]

PORT 9912
now with 100% support for the blind (and deaf)

BUT i have to fix something with the share submission code @pool first to work with jhprimeminer properly
otherwise your shares will end in nirvana, sorry *fixed*

[xeroc]

hey there .. your miner is great .. expecting 0.7XPM from first block ..

I have a short feature request:
could you make the miner read the config stuff from a file instead of prameters?

Thanks

[xolokram]

hi

thank you. I will write down the feature request in the todo-list on OP.
FYI there's still the payout barrier of 3 XPMs you'll have to reach.

good news:
I fixed the share submission part of the pool to accept work from the jhPrimeminer. Don't get confused, when jhPrimeminer tells you, that the server rejected the share (just check you personal stats on the pool info page and you'll see details about your submitted shares). Be aware, that mumus edition (why is it called mumus?) of jhPrimeminer v7.x still has a bug in the 'getwork' protocol, you'll need to fix the bug in the source code first (see OP for more information or wait until somebody will fix this for you). All other versions not based on mumus v7.x ---should--- work properly.

reminder: i'm not your personal tech support for jhPrimeminer (Quirlorimbo is your tech support - lol, he'll hate me for this!)

- xolokram

[xeroc]

have an other question

Can I mine on the same address using different machines? or will there be a collision?

[Quirlorimbo]

you can mine with different machines on the same address! no problem, i do it as well.