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At set intervals (I can't remember what it usually is, perhaps every 2%?) the core checks the current result for errors. When it does this the GPU goes idle for a short period of time.

There have actually been at least 3 generations of OpenMM cores. The first was the AMD Core 16, now mostly retired. Then Core 17, the OpenCL core for both AMD and NVidia (used OpenMM 5.1). And now the ocores, which use the new streaming work model and OpenMM 6.
 


Ah ,hiding it from the misses EH? :na:

 
@painkilla, well that sounds just like mine, I was worried about thermal throttling but I have it set to 85C and fan never goes over 45%.

@EXT, that's interesting, what resources does it use while checking, could it be a slow 2 core cpu is slowing the checking process down?

@gringoRICK, you got it, just means I have to sort the washing out when we need to use the tumble dryer as its next to the rig 😀

OC'd card to 1013mhz, set power limit to +50%, ppd on a 9408 (5906, 0, 0) - 147k

Oh and I have the latest f@h client, seems really accurate for ppd.
 
120K ish? PPD on EOC is 120-160 for the 280x plus a i5-2400.

Also anyone heard of CureCoin? Saw it on Reddit yesterday. They are currently 204M PPD and climbing. Their PPD was 5M on the 5th of May.
 
Yep, not surprising but still impressive to see the power of money. I have been following it since the start. And if a Linux GPU core comes out before they lose interest (or the currency loses value) expect it to go up a lot more (this is because most were former btc and ltc miners, and the big farms were generally linux + amd gpus, a configuration not supported currently for folding).
 
Both, actually. The way I understand it (might be wrong) is the coins are already mined and are given out for doing fah (based off of fah points). So it got former miners doing fah while still getting paid a "currency". I think it might still use hashing asics to verify transactions (but something has to be done to verify transactions, so that isn't technically a waste). Been a while since I read up on details though.
 
however, to quote a certain American president (I think... or an Earth wind and fire song), The biggest question is, where is the money. You can spend energy to make something do work on one thing at a time. Is it possible to run FAH and do black magic coin hashing or whatever simultaneously?

Or is your theory that there is just this benevolent billionaire awarding coins by FAH contribution? Or awarding coins from nothing, neither losing nor gaining money. However, the second doesn't seem to work, as the entire system of netcoins rests on bulletproof verification routes through massive hashing... right?

Bleh, I'll try to continue researching myself and will post back when I find out, unless somebody else already knows.
 
Finally found the link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=603757

This is the explanation, I read it a few days ago and have not been able to find it again.
From the site:

"Curecoins go to three main areas: Folders, Miners, and Developers. The folders get 76% of the total coins (80% of the coins distributed per day). SHA256 miners get 19% of the total coins (20% of the coins distributed per day). 2% of the total funds are distributed to people who donated to project development. The other 3% is dedicated to Curecoin developers, and will be used for paying for development costs (such as hiring professional programmers, paying for infrastructure, etc.), and for giving back to the community (folding hardware giveaways, faucets, covering 0% mining pools, etc.)"

So essentially they are doing a new currency which you can mine with F@H ( join their team and you get a per day proportion of coins) or mine SHA256 (which i believe help with the transactions).
 
Linux noob here again.
I would like to move two of my folding computers to the basement. . Big and cool all summer.:)
This gets them out of the office. In the winters it is nice ,my own space heaters. It gets a little to warm in the summer with all three in there. Air cant keep up in the room.
Both run Lubunto 13. 10 that are going to the basement.?
The computer I want to monitor them with is a Win7 computer. In the office on the middle floor.
Cat 5e cable is already run. Also a switch and necessary cables and check monitor downstairs.I would like to be able to ckeck them from upstairs daily and a once a week updates done from the downstairs.
Permissions? network ports opened ?
Windows based monitoring was easy enough. I just cant get Lubunto monitored by a windows computer.

Update.

User error!!!!
Used the wrong subnet mask in configuring.
Got it working now. :bounce:


 

Us and about 6 other teams this week.
If it contributes to folding and that is what matters the most.
A new fad perhaps but this first coin team is racking up some serious scientific data. Their work unit count is staggering.
It sucks we got passed but h.... yeah for folding. [:unolocogringo]

 
I want Curecoin to succeed. I really do. (not that I'd directly help... but hey)

But I still can't see a model anywhere that ends with Curcoin being sustainable. For coins to continue to be awarded to folders, there must be a continuous flow of normal hashers, who will only be getting a smaller proportion of the coins. Even if everything continues, with the coin distribution going on, the coins/performance of them would rapidly fall below that of other crypto-currencies. And then, all those selfish easy-fix-money-seeking GPU runners will flee like... something that flees very fast. Of course, there will be a few miners left who would stay for the charity/coins, but they won't be strong enough to sustain the system crash, and will be forced to move on to full out folding or to the next wave of 'wafflecoins' or something.

Is there something wrong with my worrying.
 
Nope, I don't think anyone really expects this to last very long (compared to how long normal donation fah has been going on). None of the coins ever lasted that long (from a computational "earning" standpoint).
 
Wish I had time to find out what bitcoin is, have I lost touch with the world coz I don't know about mining or snapchat?

On a plus just picked up a different wu, huraaah, a 9406 (55, 1, 25) points jump from 150k ish to 187k, huraaah 😀
 
Not dead, but it is uneconomical to mine bitcoin or litecoin with a GPU, due in part to asics and in part to loss of currency value.

Edit: Normally most coins go through several phases (in my opinion).

First startup, if they are not interesting (not different enough), safe enough (complete scam), etc. they will fail. If they can get enough "investors", they will jump into...

Wild speculation phase, when coin price will skyrocket, everyone will get excited, and a lot more people will join. Eventually this will cause difficulty to go up and profitability to go down, but it will still be useful to "mine". Price will fluctuate a lot and it won't be useful for anything besides conversion to other currencies.

Finally, the hardest step, acceptance. For this it seems the price has to drop and stabilize a lot. This usually kills mining enthusiasm, as you aren't making much money anymore (hopefully "paying the bills"). And usually by this point a new coin has entered the "wild speculation" phase and most miners have moved on. I think Curecoin is interesting enough to make it through at least the first phase, and it will be interesting to see how it does with the later phases (few coins seem to ever really be "accepted", bitcoin of course has gotten the farthest).
 
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