XMR-Stak-Nvidia miner running in docker

XMR-Stak is a universal Stratum pool miner. This is the NVIDIA GPU mining version; there is also an AMD GPU version, and a CPU version.

Docker® containers are often used to seamlessly deploy CPU-based applications on multiple machines. But Docker Engine does not natively support NVIDIA GPUs with containers.

I have dockerized the Nvidia GPU-mining version, so it is now running in nvidia-docker.

Containerizing GPU applications provides several benefits, among them:

• Reproducible builds
• Ease of deployment
• Isolation of individual devices
• Run across heterogeneous driver/toolkit environments
• Requires only the NVIDIA driver to be installed
• Enables “fire and forget” GPU applications
• Facilitate collaboration

Check my  code at https://github.com/cedricwalter/docker-xmr-stak-nvidia

or pull the image from docker hub https://hub.docker.com/r/cedricwalter/xmr-stak-nvidia/ 

List of AMD Threadripper TR4 Socket Compatible CPU Coolers

AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ processors with 180W TDP require the type of robust cooling solutions  provided by premium liquid cooling. The following list contains some of the thermal solutions submitted by manufacturers with specifications to support the 180W Ryzen Threadripper Processors. Right now, there are around 20 different coolers with confirmed support, including models from Corsair, Fractal Design, Cooler Master and more. If you really want good performance, wait until there are custom made cooling solutions for threadripper. Asetek (AIO), EKWB and Alphacool (custom water) and Noctua (air) are all developing solutions that cover the WHOLE DIE right now.

History of the past

I will try to keep an history of all my previous machine on this page…yes it is just a nerd/geek behavior…

In 15 years…

• Cost in euro are in green, are similar in amount, you just get more size, disk, speed for your buck
• 1208 times more IPS and my PC is still sometimes hanging (In order Vista, XP, #Linux I look at you) 😦
• 81 times more disk space!
• Power consumption 360 watts today 😦
• PC are still slower than what I expect…

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Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer’s processor speed. Many reported IPS
values have represented “peak” execution rates on artificial instruction sequences with few branches,
whereas realistic workloads consist of a mix of instructions and even applications, some of which take
longer to execute than others. The performance of the memory hierarchy also greatly affects processor
performance, an issue barely considered in MIPS calculations. Because of these problems, researchers
created standardized tests such as SPECint to (maybe) measure the real effective performance in
commonly used applications, and raw IPS has fallen into disuse. [WikiPedia]

From	CPU	MHz / IPS	Socket	RAM	O.S	Main board	Video Card	Sound	Disks	Notes
1993	Intel i486DX	50 / 41 IPS	1	4MB 612€	Win95	???	???	????	40MB	Total cost was 1700€
1997	Dual Core Intel Celeron	450×2 /  990 IPS x 2		128MB 150€	BEOS WINNT4	DFI dual processor	ATI Rage 128	???	540MB
2000	AMD Duron	700 / 2076 IPS	A	1024MB (PC133)	SuSE WIN2000	ASUS AN8VX	NVIDIA TNT Ultra 2  NVIDIA Geforce GTS2 64MB	OnBoard NVIDIA	80GB
2003	AMD Athlon XP	1800 / 5340 IPS	A	1536MB (PC133)	SuSE WINXP	ASUS AN8VX	NVIDIA Geforce FX1200 256MB	OnBoard NVIDIA	160GB	cheap upgrade from previous
2005	AMD Athlon 64  3000+ Venice 94€	2000 / 7707 IPS	939	1536MB (PC133)	OpenSuSE WINXP	ASUS A8N-VM CSM, mATX, NVIDIA 6150/430 66€	OnBoard NVIDIA 6130	Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum, 24/96 158€	3.2TB   4  x  Maxtor 7L300R0 MaxLine III, 7200rpm, 16MB, 300GB 391€ + 2 x Maxtor 7L300S0 MaxLine III, 7200rpm, 16MB, 300GB +  3 x WD Caviar RE, 7200rpm, 8MB, 320GB + WD Caviar RE2 GP, 7200, 16MB, 1TB 216€ = 1.4TB Raid5 + + 100GB  Raid5 + 1TB JBOD + 720GB JBOD USB	Promise SuperTrak EX8350, SATA2, 8 Channel. SATA RAID 0,1,5,6 339€
2008 2011	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2x6MB 220€	2660 / 49534 IPS	LG775	4 GB Mushkin XP2-8800 2x2GB (DDR2-1100) 104€	OpenSuSE WINXP	ASUS P5Q-E, Intel P45,   118€	ASUS EAH4850, HTDI/512M/A, PCI-E 2.0, 512MB GDDR3 152€	same as before	3.2TB	same as before
2017									40TB