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Gigahorse 3.0 Farming Series - Part 3: Plotting Gigahorse 3.0

System Specifications

My system is fairly old. I was lucky to find some cheap DDR4 RAM and got it to 64GB.
I'm also using a noname KingDian 1TB Sata SSD
I purchased 2 500GB SSD Drives.

I am using the Nvidia GTX 1080 GPU for plotting

XRDP

I like to install XRDP so I can remotely manage all my systems from the basement control center. (a chair and a desk)

sudo apt-install xrdp

UFW Firewall Install and Settings

Install UFW

sudo apt install ufw

Open port for xrdp remote access

sudo ufw allow 3389

Open port for Chia

sudo ufw allow 8444

Open port for Harvesters

sudo ufw allow 8447

Open port for MadMax Recomputer

sudo ufw allow 11989

Open port for DataLayer

sudo ufw allow 8575

If you don't have your SSH private key setup, we can block the SSH port

sudo ufw deny 22

Because everyone else does this on YouTube

sudo ufw

Enable the Firewall

sudo ufw enable

Check the Status

sudo ufw status

Install Nvidia Drivers

This is the driver I've been using and it works so I'm going to keep using it unless I find more information otherwise

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-525 nvidia-cuda-toolkit clinfo

IMPORTANT: You must reboot your computer for the Nvidia drivers to work

Download the Cuda Plotter

https://github.com/madMAx43v3r/chia-gigahorse/tree/master/cuda-plotter

Make the Cuda Plotter Executable

We are Ready to Plot

Open up Terminal in the location of the Cuda Plotter

sudo ./cuda_plot_k32_v3 -C

If you have 256GB Ram you do not need -t -2 or -3 temp folders
If you have 128GB Ram you can use an NVMEs for -t and -2
If you have 64GB Ram you can use NVMEs for -t -2 -3
If you have 8GB Ram you can use NVMEs for -t -2 -3

In my case, I only have one good NVME so I used the same temp drives for all of them

Do you need your contract address and farmer public key?

Farmer Public key:

chia keys show

Contract Address:

In your Chia Wallet under Pooling, click on the Question Mark

After we finish plotting, we're going to add the drives/plots to the farmer and configure the config.yml.

I'm also going to add a quick blog/video to recover 5% extra space on your hard drives by setting the reserved space to ZERO.

Later when we build harvesters, we will use the RECOMPUTE program to load balance the computes.

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