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Building a XMR-STAK miner on Ubuntu

2017-12-05T11:56:00.001-06:00

Build: Ubuntu 17.01
cpuminer: yes
gpuminer: AMD

Here's the quick steps all in one spot. My build is based on getting the basics installed locally and then doing the rest from my desk

1. Install Ubuntu 17.10
2. Boot up
3. Ctrl-alt-t (opens a terminal window)

sudo apt-get install ssh

4. Back at your desk...

ssh user@miner

5. I like using webmin on my boxes..so install this first

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.860_all.deb
sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions python
sudo dpkg --install webmin_1.860_all.deb

6. Do some basic maintenance

sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove

7. Somehow transfer the AMD linux driver and AMD SDK. I use the upload/download feature in webmin to move the files. Download them from here:

AMD Pro beta miner linux driver:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-Pro-Beta-Mining-Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx

AMD SDK
http://developer.amd.com/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/

8. Install the AMD components:

tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-17.40-483984.tar.xz
sudo ./amdgpu-pro-17.40-483984/amdgpu-pro-install
tar -jxvf AMD-APP-SDKInstaller-v3.0.130.136-GA-linux64.tar.bz2
sudo ./AMD-APP-SDK-v3.0.130.136-GA-linux64.sh

sudo nano /etc/default/grub
edit the following line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9"
sudo update-grub
sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME

Fix a problem with sympolic links:


cd $AMDAPPSDKROOT/lib/x86_64

sudo ln -sf sdk/libOpenCL.so.1 libOpenCL.so

9. Install components for xmr-stak and compile


sudo apt install libmicrohttpd-dev libssl-dev cmake build-essential libhwloc-dev git

    git clone https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak.git

    mkdir xmr-stak/build

    cd xmr-stak/build

    cmake .. -DCUDA_ENABLE=OFF




    make install

cd ..

mkdir bin

cp ./build/bin/* ./bin

10. Run it!


./bin/xmr-stak

or run it in the background!

nohup ./bin/xmr-stak &

------- Optional Extras ------------

Temperature sensor:

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors

sudo sensors-detect

sudo service kmod start

sensors

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@tanium datasheets

2016-06-14T14:31:00.001-05:00

Lists of lists of #malware and #cybersecurity tools

2016-05-23T16:31:00.000-05:00

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/awesome-malware-analysis-lists-mayur-agnihotri

#virustotal Free service that analyzes suspicious files & urls for #virus #worm #trojans #malware

2016-05-10T09:21:00.001-05:00

http://www.virustotal.com

@fortunemagazine has @hpe ranked as more innovative than @cisco !!!

2015-12-02T15:18:00.005-06:00

http://fortune.com/2015/12/02/50-most-innovative-companies/?xid=nl_termsheet

HP #23 and Cisco #31!

Need to debug your dns performance?

2015-10-30T08:56:00.001-05:00

Turn to this great peice of code from Google

https://code.google.com/p/namebench/

Rather extensively tests and reports on dns performance. Helps considerably as most applications can appear slow...when its really just latency related to DNS performance

@hp_networking #sdn #openflow will revolutionize #firewalls

2015-10-20T12:01:00.002-05:00

Check out this interesting research project called FlowGuard

https://wiki.opendaylight.org/images/1/1e/FlowGuard.pdf

Great @hp_networking blog

2015-10-20T09:51:00.002-05:00

http://abouthpnetworking.com/

Check out @arubanetworks @hp_networks performance of Microsoft #lync over #wifi

2015-10-13T09:37:00.002-05:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl018K3t-nE

@hp_networking launches #openswitch

2015-10-05T16:37:00.001-05:00

http://www.openswitch.net/

Life a network engineer @hp_networking

2015-07-08T15:12:00.003-05:00

HP #1 provider of #cloud infrastructure (server/storage/network) @hp_networking

2015-07-08T08:34:00.003-05:00

Wow!

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25732215

PVID mistmatch errors on your @hp_networking swtich?

2015-06-30T16:39:00.002-05:00

If you're getting errors about PVID mismatches between two pieces of HP gear such as a HP 560 access point connect to a HP 5130 switch, just fix it with the following:

PVOS:

no lldp config <port> dot1TlvEnable port-vlan-id

Comware:

int <name>

undo lldp tlv-enable dot1-tlv port-vlan-id

@hp_networking buys @contextream #sdn #nfv

2015-05-27T09:29:00.000-05:00

ConteXtream has a carrier grade implementation of the Opendaylight controller and applications for use in service provider networks. They come to us customers with in production carrier class SDN networks servicing millions of users and billions of flows.

http://www8.hp.com/hpnext/posts/hp-contextream-accelerate-nfv