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TUTORIAL: How to Run the æternity GPU Miner on Ubuntu 18.04

Assumptions

The instructions below assume that you installed and configured your node, have an NVIDIA GPU that is compatible and has more than 4GB of memory, ideally 8GB.

1. Installing the CUDA toolkit

cd ~
wget https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/10.0/Prod/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-10-0-local-10.0.130-410.48_1.0-1_amd64
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-10-0-local-10.0.130-410.48_1.0-1_amd64
sudo apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-10-0-local-10.0.130-410.48/7fa2af80.pub
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda

2. Installing the miner

The next step is to build the cuckoo CUDA miner. If the node has been installed (built) from source, the same source tree can be used. Otherwise if the binary package has been used for installation, the same version of the source code must be downloaded.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/aeternity/epoch.git epoch && cd epoch
git checkout tags/v1.0.1

Add the CUDA compiler to the PATH environment variable:

export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-10.0/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}

Compile the Cuckoo CUDA miner:

cd apps/aecuckoo && make cuda29

Copy the miner binary to your node (assuming the node is installed in ~/node):

cp priv/bin/cuda29 ~/node/lib/aecuckoo-0.1.0/priv/bin

3. Configuring your node

The mining section of ~/node/epoch.yaml should contain the following fragment in order to use the newly added miner:

mining:
    cuckoo:
        miner:
            executable: cuda29
            extra_args: ""
            edge_bits: 29
            hex_encoded_header: true

Keep in mind that if your GPU has less than 8GB of memory, -E 1 needs to be added to the extra_args field, if it has less than 6 - -E 2.

The node can now be started as usual with ./bin/epoch start. If the miner is successfully running, the log/epoch_mining.log file shouldn't contain any [error] logs. The GPU status can be checked with nvidia-smi.

In case you experience any issues, please post your question in the æternity Forum.