Running nicehash for GPU on Ubuntu

Running nicehash for GPU on Ubuntu

You can actually run equihash algorithm through NiceHash on Ubuntu. I just did this on my machine which is running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and a Nvidia GTX 960 GPU.

1. Install latest nvidia drivers (unless you already have them installed)

• First purge previous drivers sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*

• Then checking what the latest drivers are by running ubuntu-drivers devices

• Then install the recommended one sudo apt-get install nvidia-387

• Then reboot the computer

1. Install CUDA

• Download CUDA: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux picking the runfile (local)

• Run sudo sh cuda_xxxxx_linux.run but select no for drivers, select yes for toolkit, select no for samples

1. Install nheqminer

• git clone https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer.git

• cd nheqminer/cpu_xenoncat/asm_linux/

• sh assemble.sh

• cd ../../../

• mkdir nicehash && cd nicehash (name this dir whatever you want)

• cmake ../nheqminer (assuming you have cmake v3.5+ already installed)

• make -j $(nproc)

1. Benchmark NiceHash

• ./nheqminer -b -cd 0

1. Run NiceHash

• ./nheqminer -l equihash.usa.nicehash.com:3357 -u YOUR_BTC_ADDRESS_HERE.worker_name -cd 0

• You can name your worker anything you like. It will come up in the NiceHash dashboard

• You can change the -l to be another region as per the github documentation: https://github.com/nicehash/nheqminer

• -cd 0 means use GPU at slot 0. You can check GPU numbers by running nvidia-smi

1. Create a bash script to cd to your /nicehash directory and run the above script

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/777ezc/running_nicehash_for_gpu_on_ubuntu/

Running nicehash for GPU on Ubuntu