Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!
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@haitch Cool....Exactly the temporary solution I was looking for to see how viable this is.
Thanks! I appreciate it.
p.s. I have some questions about your mixed drive, Frankenstore setup.....I have roughly 15TB of 1-3TB each lying around (7 drives). Plus, I sold off part of one of my 2 ETH mining rigs and purchased 40TB of HDD...Any suggestions for getting all this space working together and then somehow sent to my PC, I assume with some form of raid card that uses the PCI express slot on my MOBO? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again,
Feltersnatch
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@Feltersnatch The Frankenstein setup uses an HP Server with a SAS RAID card with an external connector. That goes to a 16 drive chassis with a SAS expander backplane to allow the card to run all the drives. The HP Server runs Solaris and presents the drives over iSCSI to an HP Workstation running VMware ESXi. The drives have datastores on them, that are all presented to a single Windows VM. That VM plotted the drives and mines them - all CPU. It also has a pass-thru GPU mining ETH. It's an exotic setup and was really done as a proof of concept.
My other big miner is more straight forward. Dual Opteron PC Motherboard (Opteron part doesn't matter - it's just an average PC mobo, the important part was 6 onboard SATA ports). 14 Drives - 10 * 3.5" 4TB SATA, 2 * 2.5" 1TB SATA and 2 * 2.5" SAS 300GB drives. The drives are connected to a combination of (6) on board SATA ports, plus a PCIe SAS controller that can manage 8 SAS/SATA drives.
You don't need a RAID Controller - a non RAID SAS/SATA HBA will work great. eg: https://www.amazon.com/SAS9211-8I-8PORT-Int-Sata-Pcie/dp/B002RL8I7M
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@haitch Here's what I'm working with so far, along with some choices in the way of HBA and Hot-Swappable Enclosure:
Here's what I have so far:
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6 x Toshiba X300 4TB Desktop 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200rpm Internal Hard Drives Amazon;
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2 x 3.5" 3TB WD Blue
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4 x 3.5" 1TB Drive + 1 x 3.5" 2TB + 1 3.5" 3TB
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1 Seagate 5 TB External w/ USB 3.0
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1 x 2.5" x G Thuderbolt/USN 3 External
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2 x 2.5 750MB 2.5" Toshiba HDD
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1 x 240GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
Now if I want to dedicate the above hardware to a dedicated miner/whatever (may want to include some of my leftover r9 280xes for ETH mining). Here's what I come up with:
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Processor: Intel Xeon 1220 V3 3.1 4 (BX80646E31220V3)
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RAM: 8GB DDR3
What OS flavor works best, what about using an Elementary OS distro w/ ZFS?
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@Feltersnatch Nice parts list! Won't comment on what you already have, but for proposed stuff - all looks pretty good. I'd think about a CPU with more threads - the miners can mine multiple drives in parallel so the more threads the better - unless you've looking at GPU mining, in which case CPU become pretty irrelevant. The 280x will let you GPU mine burst and simultaneously mine eth - but during the Burst mining time it'll slow both down. The Rosewill looks nice, but I'd consider saving some $ by going non-hot swap.
OS wise - good question. My miners are windows boxes - Win 10 or Win Server - Win 7 has memory management issues. Linux is an option, but I've not done it, so can't comment on how well it performs. Stick with individual drives - I love ZFS, but this is not where it fits - multiple individual drives is the way to go.
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@haitch Thanks a ton...I will revise per your wisdom....I'd prefer to use a Windows box regardless -- I must be suffering from severe sleep deprivation. I was likely thinking about GPU mining and certain Linux distros having a positive effect on hashrate. Thanks again.....going to search for processor w/ more threads...BTW does the overlap tool at https://bchain.info/BURST/tools/overlap still function, it pops up when using the GPU (jMiner) Miner. Any other tools for fixing all my plotting mistakes? Or any other GPU plotters, I try to use both my nVidia 960x and Radeon 7950 that are both in my PC to plot, read me says it's supported but never been able to get it to work with both....And I'm trying to plot 8TB of new drive I picked up this morning....
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@Feltersnatch I've never had any joy with trying to plot with nVidias, and trust me, the 280X will plot fast.
Unfortunately the overlap tool has disappeared. You can check for overlaps manually, but it takes some work. Get a bare directory listing from each drive - in a cmd window go to the dir and do dir * /s /b >> myplots.csv - copy the myplots.csv to the next drive/PC - repeat until done. Search and replace your account ID with nothing, replace '_' with ',' - them import into Excel. Sort by starting nonce and then for each row calc the sum of starting nonce + number of nonces, and the difference between that and the next starting nonce. If the number is negative you have an overlap.
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@haitch said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@Feltersnatch Can't help with the app development - but you can mine the plots on a PC then upload them to your phone(s) for mining. Just make sure the plot has 4096 nonces and a stagger of 1.
@haitch Thank you for this advice :-) I moved Burst App to SD location from Internal Memory and then I plote file on PC and paste ot on root folder od SD card and root folder to Internal memory of Mobile for sure on my mobile Huawai P8. Then on app I just click mine and it seems to be working. But I'm not here on this pool miner list http://mpool.burst-team.us:8080/ .
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@openart What is your BurstId/Alias name ?
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@haitch said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@openart What is your BurstId/Alias name ?
@haitch 16343155159219582860 this is my Numeric ID of Burst mobile wallet that I use Now
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@openart said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@haitch said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@Feltersnatch Can't help with the app development - but you can mine the plots on a PC then upload them to your phone(s) for mining. Just make sure the plot has 4096 nonces and a stagger of 1.
@haitch Thank you for this advice :-) I moved Burst App to SD location from Internal Memory and then I plote file on PC and paste ot on root folder od SD card and root folder to Internal memory of Mobile for sure on my mobile Huawai P8. Then on app I just click mine and it seems to be working. But I'm not here on this pool miner list http://mpool.burst-team.us:8080/ .
the correct place to paste Plot PC file to Mobile is root of internal memory on my Huawai P8 not SD card
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@openart said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@haitch said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@openart What is your BurstId/Alias name ?
@haitch 16343155159219582860 this is my Numeric ID of Burst mobile wallet that I use Now
and Burst adres is BURST-2FWE-2W98-NLP5-GFNM7
maybe I should set up [Set reward assignment...] ?
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@openart I see you submitting nonces, but the pool is flagging them as REALLY bad:
submitNonce[]: account=16343155159219582860, nonce=3126, deadline=5290147891338
submitNonce[]: {"errorCode":1007,"errorDescription":"The deadline for your nonce is REALLY BAD: 167749 years, 5 months, 28 days, 13 hours, 22 mins, 18 secs - wrong block? are your plot files corrupted?"}You plotted the files using a stagger of 1 and 4096 nonces per plot ?
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@haitch said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@openart I see you submitting nonces, but the pool is flagging them as REALLY bad:
submitNonce[]: account=16343155159219582860, nonce=3126, deadline=5290147891338
submitNonce[]: {"errorCode":1007,"errorDescription":"The deadline for your nonce is REALLY BAD: 167749 years, 5 months, 28 days, 13 hours, 22 mins, 18 secs - wrong block? are your plot files corrupted?"}You plotted the files using a stagger of 1 and 4096 nonces per plot ?
I do not know - I plot using this bat file (wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 0 4100 10000 7 /async)
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@openart That won't work - you have to do it as a bunch of 1GB files. Try:
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 0 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 4096 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 8192 4096 1 7 /async
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etc.
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@haitch said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@openart That won't work - you have to do it as a bunch of 1GB files. Try:
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 0 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 4096 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 8192 4096 1 7 /async
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etc.ok thank you
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@openart said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@haitch said in Android Mining Beta Testing - Become a Tester!:
@openart That won't work - you have to do it as a bunch of 1GB files. Try:
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 0 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 4096 4096 1 7 /async
wplotgenerator 16343155159219582860 8192 4096 1 7 /async
....
etc.ok thank you
It is Working! :-) Thanks for Help! :-)
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So I have been beta testing this app for a couple of days and have some suggestions.
But first I want to say it's working great, I think yesterday I had about 4% battery drain which is totally manageable. Wasn't even the top of the list. I have ordered a 512gb sd card and will get it in a month(slow post from china). It'l be interesting to see how it works compared to 2gb.
First of all the sound, it goes off on every block which gets a little annoying for my daily phone. I have muted it but that's muting all my media and having an option to turn it off would be great. Now I get this is so you know it's working so as an alternative, could we get a status notification showing that everything is working? (with the option to turn it off) ie. Deadline, timestamp and connected?
Now for some reason my phone likes to crash out when I put it on charge every night, and this isn't anything to do with the app (it did this before). So if possible it would be good to have a start mining on boot feature. I get this might be less secure because you have to login but I didn't think you had to use your passphrase to mine.
1 little nit pick with the UX of the wallet is it says "welcome to your mobile wallet", but it says it in red which looks like an error at first glance. Also when I go into mining it has the "set pool" button over the top of the pool text for a second. This just looks a little unpolished.
One last thing with the pool, (http://mobile.burst-team.us:8080/) it would be nice to have the capacity shown in gb as it may be a more apporpriate measure (for now at least).
All in all I have enjoyed mining on my phone and will continue to beta test. Thank you @IceBurst and the whole BURST team for creating such an amazing coin.
Cheers,
-Slaw
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I'm glad your having a pleasant experience. I can tell you that very soon there will be the next beta for version 2.0, we have identified some problems with SDCard and Permissions (mostly Android 6.0 problems) and have most of them fixed. Time for some secrets, so SHHHH don't tell any one.
SUPER SECRET PROGRAMMERS ROADMAP
v2.1-
New Menu (Tools)
- Contains Options for users (disable chime, set default user to mine as, potential start on power on)
- Set Mining Pool Based on Recommendations
- Calculator for long term mining
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Support for plug-able USB devices like external HDD.
PS> Might do a small crowd fund for the v2.1 features
I'll have a really awesome screen shot for you guys in a couple of days. Expect to be mind blown.
-IceBurst
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