madMAx43v3r/chia-gigahorse v1.8.0.giga11

1.8.0.giga11 Gigahorse Node / Farmer

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New features in this version:

• Remote compute server, to offload compute from harvesters to another set of compute machines.
• Remote compute proxy, to distribute farming compute to multiple compute machines in a centralized manner.
• Fixed wallet not syncing without a Gigahorse node.

To use the remote compute feature:

• Start chia_recompute_server on the machine that is doing the compute (included in release).
• export CHIAPOS_RECOMPUTE_HOST=... on the harvester (replace ... with the IP address or host name of the compute machine, and make sure to restart via chia stop all -d or stop_all.cmd on windows)
• On Windows you need to set CHIAPOS_RECOMPUTE_HOST variable via system settings.
• CHIAPOS_RECOMPUTE_HOST can be a list of recompute servers, such as CHIAPOS_RECOMPUTE_HOST=192.168.0.11,192.168.0.12. A non-standard port can be specified via HOST:PORT syntax, such as localhost:12345. Multiple servers are load balanced in a fault tolerant way.
• CHIAPOS_RECOMPUTE_PORT can be set to specify a custom default port for chia_recompute_server (default = 11989).
• See chia_recompute_server --help for available options.

To use the remote compute proxy:

• Start chia_recompute_proxy -n B -n C ... on a machine A. (B, C, etc are running chia_recompute_server)
• Set CHIAPOS_RECOMPUTE_HOST on your harvester(s) to machine A.
• chia_recompute_proxy can be run on a central machine, or on each harvester itself, in which case A = localhost.
• See chia_recompute_proxy --help for available options.

This release provides Chia Blockchain binaries to farm compressed plots created with the new plotters provided in this repository.

The compressed plot harvester and farmer are not compatible with the official Chia node, it only works together with the Gigahorse node. However it's possible to use a wallet from the official Chia repository, instead of the Gigahorse binary wallet.

Both NFT and OG plots are supported, as well as solo and pool farming (via the official pool protocol). Regular uncompressed plots are supported as well, so you can use the Gigahorse version while re-plotting your farm.

The dev fee is as follows:

• 3.125 % when using GPU(s) to farm compressed plots
• 1.562 % when using CPU(s) to farm compressed plots
• 0 % for regular uncompressed plots

The following packages are needed to run on Linux: sudo apt install ocl-icd-libopencl1

Make sure to choose the correct version for your system, see uname -m, usually it's x86_64. aarch64 is the same as arm64.

On Windows:

• You might have to install latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable: https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

Note: Newer AMD GPUs starting with RX 6000 series do not work due to a driver bug, we have to wait for AMD to fix it. Vega series is known to still work when using an older driver with amdgpu-install --opencl=pal,legacy. RX 5000 series is unknown at this point.

Note: See limit-gpu-usage on how to select an OpenCL platform if you have multiple (excluding Nvidia).