packfile.h: pf_load refuses a generator other than 2 or 3 (spec 01 section 1.4.5), reads IGNEUM_PROGRAM_CLASS
(must match the generator) and IGNEUM_ERA_SEED_HEX; pf_pack_class_ok and pf_class_token are the one rule for
the `class=<v2|v3> era=<hex>` tokens a job or prepare line of a class v3 epoch ends with (a v2 line is the
line of before, byte for byte). CUDA worker.cpp and OpenCL host.c: a pair's identity includes its class and era
when the line names them, so a prepared pack of the right class wins over the resident pack of the same seeds;
right seeds with the wrong class answer `need` plus `error <id> pack <dir>: program class mismatch ...`, and a
prepare on a pack of the wrong class fails in plain words. Metal main.swift: refuses every class v3 line until
the Swift generator carries version 3 (the integration branch). emu/packfile-test.c: the generator rule, a v3
pack with its era, the token matcher, the contradicting class line (13 checks pass).
igneum-pow verify.rs: Epoch::chain_dataset(day, class), the one entry the node's day cache goes through, so the
ca2-mixer class-specific item construction and cache schedule have a seam.
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From 18:23Z both Windows workers (CUDA on PC 1 and PC 2, OpenCL on PC 1 after the 18:34Z node restart)
refused every pack for epoch 34 with "the epoch seed bytes do not give the pack's IGNEUM_SEEDW_INIT", and
the miner and the app restarted them every 5 to 60 s until 18:44Z and beyond. The packs were correct.
The generator retries a rejected candidate with seed || k_le32 (attempt_words); epoch 34's attempt 0 was
rejected (246 of 16384 final register values saturated, limit 163) and attempt 1 accepted, so the pack
carried attempt 1's words while pf_load (proto-cuda/nvrtc/packfile.h) derived the expected words from
the bare seed. Both workers also matched jobs to pairs by those bare-seed words, so even a loaded pack
of a retried program would have answered "epoch seed mismatch" on every job.
The rule, in one place per language:
- packfile.h: pf_program_words(bytes, attempt); pf_load reads IGNEUM_PROGRAM_ATTEMPT and checks the
attempt's words; the refusal says "program pack and its seeds disagree: IGNEUM_SEEDW_INIT is not
attempt N of the epoch seed ..." in plain words.
- worker.cpp and proto-opencl/host.c: a job belongs to a pair when the seed hex the node sent is the
pair's (pairIs); the compiled-in placeholder pack keeps the word comparison.
- igneum-pow/src/packcheck.rs: verify_pack_texts / verify_pack_dir, the same rule in Rust; the miner
checks every pack it writes with it before a worker sees it (vendor/igneum-node pack-loop branch).
Tests pin the attempt vectors of epoch 34 on both sides (one vector, two implementations), that
epoch 34 is attempt 1 and epoch 33 attempt 0, a known-good pack of a later attempt, a known-mismatched
(out of date) pack, and self-contradicting packs.
- proto-cuda/nvrtc/emu/packfile-test.c (+ .sh, in CI): pf_load on a known-good attempt-1 pack, the
checked-in attempt-0 pack, and the known-mismatched bare-words pack.
The app (app/igneum-app):
- watchdog.rs: PACK_OUT_OF_DATE_CODE 44, PackRebuilds (at most 3 pack exports per epoch, then the card
shows the reason), pack_refusal (the worker's "error 0 pack" line and the miner's "PACK OUT OF DATE"
line), pack_epoch_of; tests on the incident lines, known-good and known-mismatched.
- engine.rs: exit 44 exports the pack again before the restart instead of a blind restart, the strip
says "program pack out of date, rebuilding", the card and the log name the condition; at the cap the
card is marked failed with the reason and tries again in 10 minutes.
The relay (relay/lib/parse.mjs): PACK_MISMATCH; the card reads "pack mismatch, rebuilding (N refusals
in the tail, M restarts)" in `node tools/console.mjs machines` instead of a bare restart count; tests
on the PC 2 tail of 18:27Z and a healthy tail.
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Under emulation (or --race with no other name) the race no longer times base alone: emu/test.sh passes again
(9 source checks, the serve protocol with prepare, swap and self-heal, 17 sampled hashes equal to igneum-pow).
Mac table: g256 (256 threads per threadgroup) +17.3% and +21.2% over the shipped 32-thread groups on two
programs, with the live app's worker sharing the GPU; the serve check found the unfair mutex (fixed in 123ee1a).
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the project lead, 4 Oct 2026 evening: "we need to make our miner better than anything else can be". The compile-ahead pipeline
built one kernel per program; it now builds a catalogue (unroll 2 or 8; the dataset load path __ldg, __ldcg, __ldcs
on NVIDIA; a register budget by --maxrregcount or __launch_bounds__, max_total_threads_per_threadgroup on Apple;
2, 4, 8 warps per block or 64 to 256 threads per threadgroup; combinations), self-tests each against the pack's
vector warps (NVIDIA) or the base kernel over 2^16 nonces (Metal), bit for bit or out, and times each for about two
seconds with the job loop paused (one mutex, mining resumes between variants). Base is the pack's text as shipped,
always first, never discarded; a race has a budget (default 120 s against the 600-DAA lead) and keeps the best so
far when it runs out, so the swap is never delayed. One line per race: variants, MH/s each, winner, gain, time.
A tuning file (--tuning, IGNEUM_TUNING_FILE) pins a variant or orders the candidates per card model.
NVIDIA: textual rewrites on the pack's own kernel_bound.cu with exact anchors from igneum-pow's emitter, so the
pack format, the miner and igneum-pow are untouched and old packs race. --race --pack <dir> runs the race alone.
Under IGNEUM_EMU the race is off (the stand-in checks the handed-over text is the pack's). Metal: the MSL hooks in
generateMSL, a lock-protected kernel slot per program, a pair compiled inline races after its first job,
--race-test --seed --day runs the race alone with a table. OpenCL is not raced yet. docs/design/miner-tuning.md.
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Root cause from the uploads (bench-log entry): the app exported the pack while its node was in IBD inside the previous
epoch, the OpenCL worker started after the boundary with no next epoch within lead, so no prepare was ever sent and
every job was a seed mismatch; the CUDA worker on the same PC had swapped correctly. Both workers now print
need <epoch> <day> before the error; the devnet-v4 miner (3bfe346f) prepares the current pair on a need line or three
mismatches, exits 42 for a worker without prepare support, and restarts a ready worker that completes no job for
60 s with jobs queued. Package rebuilt with the guarded miner (ship build on dc749905), payload inputs published.
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proto-cuda/nvrtc/worker.cpp serves igneum-miner's worker protocol with nothing installed but the NVIDIA driver:
nvcuda.dll and the redistributable nvrtc64_120_0.dll are opened with LoadLibrary (cuda_api.h), the pack's kernel.cu
and kernel_bound.cu are handed to NVRTC byte for byte up to the host launch wrappers with program.h and memhard.h as
named headers, every pack is self-tested against its vectors.h (cache head, last line, FNV-1a 64, dataset head, last
word, 64 samples, 96 vector lanes) before it serves a job, prepare runs on a thread for the hourly swap, and a job on
seeds without a pair makes the worker find the miner's pack by seeds.txt and build it. packfile.h (C99) reads a pack
directory. fetch-redist.sh verifies and stages the NVIDIA 12.8.93 redistributables and the Khronos headers
(THIRD-PARTY.md records URLs, hashes and the EULA clause); build-windows.sh cross-compiles with mingw (static,
KERNEL32 + Universal CRT only). emu/: the two libraries as host functions, the pack kernels on host threads, the NVRTC
source compared with the pack files; test.sh PASS on the Mac (two real packs, swap, self-heal, 17 sampled hashes equal
igneum-pow hash-bound). Not run here: the real NVRTC compile and driver load (RTX 5090 PC).
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