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Scavenger - PoCC's Burstcoin reference Miner for Linux/Unix/Windows/MacOs/Android (32&64bit).

It offers:

• SSE2, AVX, AVX2, AVX512F and NEON support
• OpenCL GPU support
• DirectIO

changelog:

• performance issue with AVX512f have been fixed NB: If you don't run a AVX512f cpu, you can continue to use v.1.6.0

Scavenger - PoCC's Burstcoin reference Miner for Linux/Unix/Windows/MacOs/Android (32&64bit).

It offers:

• SSE2, AVX, AVX2, AVX512F and NEON support
• OpenCL GPU support
• DirectIO

changelog:

• support for 32bit and 64bit cpus
• support for raspberry pi, odroid and modern android phones
• arm neon support
• hot plug fix (recover after reconnecting a HDD)
• improved mem usage when disabling direct io in windows
• some more shabal optimisations (2-3% speed increase)
• bugfix: sector size determination in unix
• bugfix: cpu core affinity unix

Scavenger - PoCC's Burstcoin reference Miner for Linux/Unix/Windows/MacOs (64bit).

It offers:

• SSE2, AVX, AVX2 and AVX512F support
• OpenCL GPU support
• DirectIO

changelog:

• ninja pool support
• improved cross-platform determination of physical sector size
• added a sensible fallback for physical sector size determination
• gpu cli-options have been removed from cpu only build
• improved performance for very large mining rigs by adding cpu-pinning for reader threads
• improved miner interoperability, scavenger can now talk to creep & blago proxy servers
• option to send additional meta-data to proxy server / pool (capacity, hostname, plotfile)
• further shabal optimisations (~3-5% speed increase)
• improved avx code: added zeroupper to avoid transition penalities
• display total number of disks on start
• changed info messages: deadlines will now be reported once accepted or rejected
• changed error messages: improved warning and error messages if a submits fails
• fixed benchmarking when mem-mapping is enabled

Scavenger - PoCC's Burstcoin reference Miner for Linux/Unix/Windows/MacOs (64bit).

It offers:

• SSE2, AVX, AVX2 and AVX512F support
• OpenCL GPU support
• DirectIO

changelog:

• https support
• avx512f support
• opencl support
• gpu mem-mapping and DMA support
• multi account mining
• added performance figures to output
• progressbar added
• option to benchmark i/o and hashing capabilities
• documentation added (special thanks to feyd!)
• concurrent overlap checker

Scavenger - PoCC's Burstcoin reference Miner for Linux/Unix/Windows/MacOs (64bit).

It offers:

• SSE2, AVX and AVX2 support
• DirectIO

changelog:

• added logging feature (console & file logging incl. log levels & configurable output patterns)
• added HDD wakeup feature
• improved MacOS support
• improved i/o error handling (resumes on errors)
• improved network error handling (introduced timeouts)
• further shabal optmisations
• usability improvements (config file comments)

Beta release of Scavenger