Has anyone plotted over 20TB with CPU, if so how long did it take?

[tylerk07]

This seems like its going to take weeks, literally. Is there a faster way?

[gpedro]

@tylerk07 The only faster way is plotting with GPU xD
I recently plotted and optimized 10Tb only with CPU and it took me around 10 days to make it so i think i would take 20 days to plot 20Tb xP

[tylerk07]

OMG..... Thats not happening... Ive tried to read and watch as many forums and videos on gpu plotting but still cant figure out how to set it up.

[gpedro]

@tylerk07 Yeah i can't use my GPU too xD I tried couple of times but my nVidia is too weak, i think...

[tylerk07]

What sort of nvidia card do you have?

[haitch]

@gpedro You were going slow then .... I did 56TB in < 2 weeks. Single R9-280X plotter

[tylerk07]

@haitch Seeings as you gpu plotted im getting this error when i type the command
gpuplotgenerator.exe list platforms
[ERROR] Unknown [list] command

[haitch]

@tylerk07 it's: "gpuPlotGenerator.exe listPlatforms" case sensitive ....

[tylerk07]

Im following this thread for setting it up,
https://burstcoin.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/windows-gpu-plotter-walk-through/

[RichBC]

@tylerk07 It also depends on the processor. With an i7-4790K processor using 8 Cores I can do 5TB every 24 Hours.

Rich

[gpedro]

@haitch Yeah i used 2 Laptops from 3 years ago (one with AMD quad core and one with Intel i3) to plot this drives and i only used the CPU... x(
One of my CPU's get 3500 nonces per min and the other get 1500 nonces per min...

[tylerk07]

@haitch Sorry i copy pasted it so it was case sensitive when i did it. I followed the thread exactly.. what could be the issue?

[haitch]

@tylerk07 Well in the post above you have a space between the "list" and "platforms" and a lowercase 'p" in platforms, it has to be exactly - "listPlatforms" - alternatively, do gpuplotgenerator setup, then "1"

[tylerk07]

@haitch ok great that has worked so far! im nearly there! if my starting plot is zero, what should the stagger be? ive got a 7950 3GB

[tylerk07]

@haitch okay ive done something wrong....

gpuPlotGenerator.exe generate 0 0 "E:\Path to\plots" BURST-SGPY-CCGY-SRDJ-GD6KQ 0 3000 1024 1024

[haitch]

@tylerk07 gpuPlotGenerator.exe generate direct E:\Path to\plots<numeric account>_0_3072_1024

The filename has to be one continuous name, with your numeric account_starting nonce_number of nonces_stagger.

The number of nonces has to be a multiple of your stagger - so with a stagger of 1024, do 3072 rather than 3000. To get the number of nonces you want to plot: (<space in bytes> / 262144) / stagger. Round down - so 10372.123 -> 10372, then multiply by stagger.

[tylerk07]

@haitch i totally screwed it up thats the cpu details, i seen you went offline so i quickly created a new thread where I listed all the cmd gpu details

[haitch]

@tylerk07 In your devices.txt you need to configure the device to be used - in your case use:

0 0 8192 128 8192

Then on the command line, as I specified: numeric account_starting nonce_number of nonces_stagger

[RichBC]

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[tylerk07]

@haitch I'm clearly stupid because I still cant work it out.. I'm so close though..

gpuPlotGenerator.exe generate 0 0 "E:\Path to\plots" BURST-SGPY-CCGY-SRDJ-GD6KQ_0_9000_3000_256_3072

Id: 0
Type: GPU
Name: Tahiti
Vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (2117.13)
Driver version: 2117.13 (VM)
Max clock frequency: 900MHz
Max compute units: 28
Global memory size: 3GB 0MB 0KB
Max memory allocation size: 2GB 768MB 0KB
Max work group size: 256
Local memory size: 32KB
Max work-item sizes: (256, 256, 256)