best set up for plotting fast
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@BenBurst Hello You mention 'çlassic i5' is that a HP desk top?
I'm on a HP all in one with windows 10 and plotting is really really slow.george
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@prettyboy Hi,
I mention that i5 just to mention a processor, the idea is to plot with GPU (graphic card) instead of CPU (processor).
HP, Dell, Win7, Win10, all of this didnt change anything.Ben
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@BenBurst Oh I see, So I need to get a desktop Gaming computer e.g with Intel i5 and say a Radeon R7 360 video card..
Will it be just plug in and play when you plot?george
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@prettyboy On windows, there is a GPU plotter with a easy to use graphical interface,
you will find all informations on the forum :)
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@ccminer
I am using Uubntu 14.04 and having a few problems setting up plotting to my 5TB drive. Have tried a couple of plotters with only dead ends at errors.
How are you progressing? Any suggestions you may have would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Took me about 6 hours to plot a 2TB HDD on a intel dual core with a 970 GTX.
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@vadirthedark what erros you get?
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@ccminer
I am trying to plot a 5TB drive in Ubuntu 14.04 by following 'MDCCT Plotter/Optimizer/Miner 64bit' by Kartojal 2015 documentation. Downloaded and unzipped software. In plotter dir documentation suggests in Terminal to enter parameter '.gpuPlotGenerator listPlatforms' to obtain platforms # and id. When entered-Getting error:"Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-version.c: 224: _dl_check_map_versions: Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)' failed!'
This bothered me for many days when I uninstalled 'Using NVIDIA Binary Driver-version 352.79 from nvidia-352 (open source)' and install 'Using NVIDIA Binary Driver-version 340.98 from nvidia-340 (open source). In terminal re-ran './gpuPlotGenerator ...' and did not get any errors. I did not get a 'Platforms ID #'' as expected and required for input into 'devices.txt'.
This is my gpu: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
After no more errors I looked at getting the Platorms ID # with no success. Had problems with nothing in 'Makefile' and 'Devices.txt', etc. Now I have deleted the folders for the software and plotters. If I can find a better gpu plotter I will try again, otherwise I will look at a cpu plotter. I need some direction from those who use linux!
Thank all for any help.
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@mterrenal said in best set up for plotting fast:
Took me about 6 hours to plot a 2TB HDD on a intel dual core with a 970 GTX.
Wow, that's nearly 4x faster than it took my to play 2TB. I am using the Windows AIO Wallet/Plotter/Miner using an i7-6800k. Is there an option within this to use a GPU for pliotting instead? This rig has 4 MSI RX470's mining ETH but if it is so much faster plotting with GPU, it might be worthwhile to use 1 of them for plotting. If this is integrated into the AIO, can someone explain how to use GPU vs default CPU? If not, what is the best way to get a good, easy to use GPU plotter?
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@GabryRox The gpuplotter is available in the Burst Software section.
quick and dirty guide to plotting: run "gpuplotgenerator setup" - this will allow you to list and configure you devices for plotting. Do display, then configure. Once devices have been configured, run: gpuplotgenerator generate [buffer|direct] filename1 filename2 .......
Plotting can be with direct or buffered - buffered is faster, but direct creates fully optimized plots.
The filenameX takes the format: <accountID>_<start nonce>_<number of nonces>_<stagger>
By using multiple filenames you can plot multiple drives simultaneously. eg:
gpuplotgenerator generate direct I:\17250039689296678890_102973440_11448320_2048 k:\17250039689296678890_114421760_11448320_2048

