Hey folks,
This is a heavily optimized Zcash (Equihash) miner for CUDA, brought to you by NiceHash.
Up to 400 Sol/s @ stock GTX 1070.
WINDOWS and LINUX
Works on all GPUs with SM5.0 or more (Maxwell and Pascal). Do not even try to run on older cards, won’t work.
Also, there are some improvements regarding CPU mining; ability to use locked pages, works good on multi-cpu servers/rigs with no additional settings needed.
There are no additional settings needed for GPUs, the default should be the best for most, but just in case, several options are provided and you may choose among them (use -h to learn more).
This miner is currently compatible only with NiceHash.
DOWNLOAD WINDOWS version (Windows 7+)
DOWNLOAD Linux Ubuntu 14.04 version
DOWNLOAD Linux Ubuntu 16.04 version
(Linux versions might work on other Linux distributions as well, but haven’t been tested)
Known issue on Linux: Ctrl+C does not stop the miner, you have to use stop.sh script (included in zip archive) or simply do “pkill -9 -f eqm”.
If you’re getting `GLIBCXX_x.x.x’ not found on Ubuntu 14.04, try this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libstdc++6
See eqm -h for help.
GPU mining only:
eqm -l [LOCATION] -t 0 -u [YOUR-BTC-ADDRESS] -w [WORKER-NAME]CPU + GPU mining with 4 cores:
eqm -l [LOCATION] -t 4 -u [YOUR-BTC-ADDRESS] -w [WORKER-NAME] -cd [GPUs][LOCATION] = “eu”, “usa”, “hk”, “jp”
[GPUs] = 0 1 2 3 …
Query CUDA devices:
eqm -ciBenchmark device 0 for 10 seconds:
eqm -t 0 -b 10 -cd 0Launch with multiple threads/instances per CUDA device and start mining on EU location:
eqm -l eu [YOUR-BTC-ADDRESS] -w [WORKER-NAME] -t 0 -b 10 -cd 0 0IMPORTANT: to achieve maximum speed you should enable two threads per GPU:
-cd [GPU0] [GPU0] [GPU1] [GPU1]...for example, when using two threads per GPU while having three GPUs in the system:
-cd 0 0 1 1 2 2or you can simply use -ca parameter to run on all cuda devices:
-ca -caNotes on CPU mining: this miner has support for LOCKED PAGES; it can give few extra % of performance. How to enable: Enable the Lock Pages in Memory Option (Windows) - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn (you may have to restart OS after changing). CPU mining supports “big servers” with more than 64 cores and there is no need to manually fiddle with affinities and NUMA nodes. Just set -p (number of CPUs) and -t (number of CORES per CPU) and miner automatically deals with it.
Keep on mining!
p.s.: there is another thread about this miner on this forum (called “NVIDIA GTX 970 = 50 Sol/s”), but this is now the official thread for this miner
Best regards,
NiceHash team.
… remember, memory bandwidth is everything here 