Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin is also the name of the open source software which enables the use of this currency.
BitCoin Mining Benchmark
I think it is not too late for BitCoin mining. I know that AMD Radeon display card is more faster than nVidia when doing BitCoin mining and hash cracking. There is a benchmark comparsion at here. However, I have two nVidia GeForce GTX590 display card and I have no fund to buy another system for the purpose.
To install Ubuntu Desktop on nVidia system, you need to add "
nomodeset" as Linux kernel parameter.Installation
(A) BitCoin Wallet
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bitcoin-qt bitcoind(B) OpenCL
sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-libopencl1Download nvidia-opencl-icd 195.36.31-6squeeze2
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/nvidia-opencl-icd
Download nvidia-opencl-common 195.36.31-6squeeze2
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/nvidia-opencl-common
Download libcuda1 195.36.31-6squeeze2
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libcuda1
Install them with the following command :
sudo dpkg -i *.debsudo apt-get install python-pyopencl python-pyopencl-headers python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxtools wx2.8-i18n python-bumpy python-netifaces* nvidia-opencl-icd, nvidia-opencl-common and libcuda1 may be fixed in Ubuntu 13.04 and you are not required to download sperately
(C) nVidia driver
sudo apt-get install jockey-commonFor Ubuntu 12.10 :
Please refer to here as the Ubuntu 12.10 have a minor bug for nVidia display driver as it lack of kernel headers for building the nvidia module.
(D) GUIMiner
GUIMiner download from https://github.com/Kiv/poclbm
sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/Kiv/poclbm.gitEdit the file ioutil.py to correct something :
cd poclbm
nano ioutil.pyTo make it looking like the following at the beginning of the file :
from glob import glob
#from serial.tools import list_ports
import serialTo run the GUIMiner :
cd poclbm
python guiminer.py(E) Bonus
(1) GUIMiner for Windows (All-in-One)
GUIMiner Advanced Setup download
(2) AMD APP SDK for AMD Radeon
AMD APP SDK
(3) Ufasoft Miner (bitcoin-miner for CPU)
bitcoin-miner
bitcoin-miner for Windows
bitcoin-miner (Source Code for Linux)
(4) GUIMiner (poclbm.py) Settings
For best performance but higher temperature -
nVidia GTX590 : -v -f0 -w128
nVidia GTX460 : -v -f0 -w128
For lower temperature but lesser performance -
nVidia GTX590 : -s0.01
nVidia GTX460 : -s0.01
e.g. Two GTX590 (a total of 4 CUDA devices) running setting of -s0.01 at room temperature (21 degree) under water cooling. The temperature of each CUDA devices is around 50 degree. The performance of each CUDA device is around 73 Mhash/s. The total performance is about 292 Mhash/s. If this box is running in room temperature in summer here (around 30-33 degree), the maximum temperature of CUDA device will be around 80 degree under water cooling condition.
The performance of BitCoin mining of this box is not good at all with the high price of the GTX590. I do not recommend to use nVidia display card for BitCoin mining and hash cracking.
* each entry for each CUDA device in GUIMiner
(5) BFGMiner for AMD Radeon/CPU/ASIC
Ubuntu PPA
(6) ASIC mining is the most fastest in the world so far
(7) Make sure you have backup your BitCoin (BTC) as it is either stored in the pool server or local machine.
That's all! See you.