I haven’t been involved with CHIA for a long time.
5015 normal pool plots.
I would now like to re-plot these. Compressed.
My plotter. I have a server mainboard.
SuperMicro X9DRi-F
2 x Xeon E5-2697 v2 (12C,24T; 2,70Ghz)
2x Seagate Firecuda 520 512GB
256GB (8x32GB) Samsung PC3-L-12800L 4Rx4 ECC
1 x Nvidia Tesla M40 (24GB, GDDR5)
So far I didn’t need the Tesla GPU. Now I would like to install it.
I would have 3 x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slots.
I could buy another 256GB RAM, if needed.
Basically, the setup should be enough (?) K32
Now I have already read some things today.
MadMaxx with fees
or
Bladebit (does he have fees?)
The following questions I have:
Which is recommended? (Madmaxx or Bladebit)
Plotting I would on Linux (which Distri? ubuntu 20.04 I still have from back then at the run)
Client: Windows 10
How does this run? Normal Chia client? + Bladebit/Madmaxx parallel?
Here I still need a 2nd graphics card. I guess that the Tesla M40 won’t do much. I would like to take the 4060TI with 16GB.
For C7.
Any objections? Comments? Suggestions for improvement?
Your setup is ok for plotting. Farming happens like usual but requires decompression, GPU is more efficient (usually people use 3060ti)
MM is already out and available. BB is still in alpha testing and experimental, you can do C7 maximum (which is equivalent to C6 on MM) and gpu farming is starting to be available on this alpha channel.
MM has fees, BB won’t.
Things you have to look for :
proper C value for your GPU and current/future amount of plots
proper sizing for plot filter reduction (first from 512 to 256 soon) which doubles compute cost
proper networking for transfering plots since GPU plotting is a lot faster than CPU plotting
For you at this point in time, it’s basically a choice of going over MMC6 (BBC7) or not, using proprietary software or sticking with Chia software.
And I want to add that uncompressed is uncompetitive anymore, since lower compression levels give 10-15% extra space with basically no compute.
proper C value for your GPU and current/future amount of plots
BB with C7 for 5015 uncompressed plots (approx. 6820 GPU plots)
proper sizing for plot filter reduction (first from 512 to 256 soon) which doubles compute cost
This is given by CHIA-Client and not by me (?)
proper networking for transfering plots since GPU plotting is a lot faster than CPU plotting
Uninteresting. I take e.g. 3-5 HDD out of the productive system. These go to the plotter. When they are full they go back to the productive system.
For you at this point in time, it’s basically a choice of going over MMC6 (BBC7) or not, using proprietary software or sticking with Chia software.
And THAT is the question now. I did not understand it until now. I would like to stay with the original CHIA software. Is that possible with BB?
What is the procedure here? The original CHIA software will not finish plotting the plots. Surely something must run in parallel(?)
which is recommend?..personal choice. Gigahorse (madmax) is much further along and fully released but with fees.
That said, with your setup, you should be able to plot just fine with Bladebit alpha as well. But it is alpha and can have issues.
I have been plotting with bladebit on very similar system,:
SuperMicro X9DRi-F
2 x Xeon 2630L v2
256GB ddr3-12800
GTX 1070 ti
that gives me just under 5 minute per plot K32
Client:
For Gigahorse I believe you run the Gigahorse software together with the Chia client, but not too familiar with that.
Bladebit farmer is built into the Chia alpha builds (plotter is separate download for now)
For 5000 plots, a 4060ti is overkill (one thing is for farming you don’t need a lot of Vram). Something like a tesla p4 would be fine, maybe even the M40 dunno about that
Both Gigahorse and Bladebit have google sheets with farm simulator results (and you can simulate yourself )
Plot filter is at the protocl level. Your compute will double when plot filter is reduced. If you size inappropriately, you will have to replot again soon, or buy another GPU to do the extra compute.
By the way, over there you can see a note that clarifies that you can start de Gigahorse farmer, and after that you can open the official CHIA GUI in parallel (I can testify that it works properly that way).
Another topic is mentioned in this CHIA Forum and reffers when you want to farm and plot at the same time, you will need a GPU with at least 12 GB of RAM (I have done that and it works with 12. If you use only 8GB, the plotter will crash or will take hours to create 1 single plot).
Last but not least, you are considering C7 compression level, but I have decided to go for the C8’s and at the moment with a 3060 with 12 GB, I am plotting and farming at the same time with no problems (I tried the C9’s but It crashed. Mad Max mentioned that for C9’s you require more computing power, like 24GB or more).
