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Message 21197 - Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 5:34:46 UTC
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Every time I go to do an update, I keep getting the message:

2/18/2009 7:21:43 PM|lhcathome|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 388800 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
2/18/2009 7:21:47 PM|lhcathome|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2/18/2009 8:00:24 PM|lhcathome|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 388800 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
2/18/2009 8:00:29 PM|lhcathome|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2/18/2009 9:05:53 PM|lhcathome|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 388800 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
2/18/2009 9:05:59 PM|lhcathome|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2/18/2009 10:19:04 PM|lhcathome|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 388800 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
2/18/2009 10:19:09 PM|lhcathome|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2/18/2009 10:26:49 PM|lhcathome|Fetching scheduler list
2/18/2009 10:26:54 PM|lhcathome|Master file download succeeded
2/18/2009 10:26:59 PM|lhcathome|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 388800 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
2/18/2009 10:27:04 PM|lhcathome|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

Why is this? Is there actually no work units available, or is there some sort of a problem with the server? My SETI@home seems to update just fine.
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Message 21198 - Posted: 19 Feb 2009, 6:15:22 UTC

LHC@Home rarely has work ... lucky to get work once a quarter at the moment. And the batches are usually pretty small as these things go ... sadly for those of us in love with the LHC...

Just leave it connected and be patient ...
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Message 21203 - Posted: 20 Feb 2009, 0:48:35 UTC - in response to Message 21198.  
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LHC@Home rarely has work ... lucky to get work once a quarter at the moment. And the batches are usually pretty small as these things go ... sadly for those of us in love with the LHC...

Just leave it connected and be patient ...

Thanks for the answer, Paul; I'll take your advice.
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Message 21205 - Posted: 20 Feb 2009, 0:57:54 UTC

I know the work doesn\\\'t come often...thats fine,i am still happy to crunch when it does....but they have not kept us up to date with what is happening....if anything. I sound like a broken record...but...how about a message on the main page...it only takes 5 minutes to post something...to keep us eager or interested and up to date! 3 months and counting since last main page message and info.....
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Message 21207 - Posted: 20 Feb 2009, 1:34:38 UTC - in response to Message 21205.  

Agreed. There was a short blip of work
for about two months and then it stopped.
My first concern was - oops what did I do?

All there is is a hint on the home page
seeing how many units are out there. When
nothing is in progress, you\'re not the only one
without work.
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Message 21244 - Posted: 24 Feb 2009, 17:28:58 UTC

Put your LHC resource share at 1000. When work is available, you may get some. The last couple of months have been great, but the last two weeks have been pretty baren.
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Message 21284 - Posted: 3 Mar 2009, 18:33:18 UTC

There has been a trickle of work but I can\'t get any of it. Sometimes it is because it arrives between updates and disappears before the next scheduled update. Other times when I issue an update and there is a little work then it rejects because it is less than 15 mins since the last update.

Can\'t the 15 min. restriction be based on when we last get work rather than the last update which failed to get work, please?
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Message 21510 - Posted: 24 Sep 2009, 20:03:05 UTC - in response to Message 21197.  

There hasn\'t been any work for a long time. And there probably won\'t be any until after the LHC is kicked into 2nd gear in november.
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Message 21513 - Posted: 25 Sep 2009, 14:02:22 UTC
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The LHC has its own Grid and has tested it with fake data. Just see the CERN Courier of September. I don\'t think it will feed its precious data to LHC@home, when it gets some. This is a totally unrelated effort and depends on the work and good will of a few people, not the thousands employed by LHC.
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Message 21521 - Posted: 30 Sep 2009, 16:55:51 UTC - in response to Message 21513.  

The LHC has its own Grid and has tested it with fake data. Just see the CERN Courier of September. I don\'t think it will feed its precious data to LHC@home, when it gets some. This is a totally unrelated effort and depends on the work and good will of a few people, not the thousands employed by LHC.
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Yes, indeed. It is a pity that we cannot get a small slice of the action:
http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1002063


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Message 21523 - Posted: 1 Oct 2009, 5:58:53 UTC

I haven\'t see any work since I joined with great anticipations. My system is set to do some serious crunching but I guess this is one of the hottest VM sites on the WEB. I just don\'t want to get too old and miss all the action.
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Message 21524 - Posted: 1 Oct 2009, 6:53:51 UTC

I am running Einstein@home in the search for gravitational waves and binary pulsars system (using also data from the Arecibo radiotelescope which feeds SETI) and QMC@home with good computer chemistry problems.
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Message 21526 - Posted: 3 Oct 2009, 20:05:56 UTC
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It would be really nice if, once work was available, the people dropping the work on the server kind of spread it out across the day. As it is, members of LHC@home that are running BIG number crunching machines 24x7 manage to gobble up all the work as soon as it appears and it leaves nothing for those of us that wake our machines up only a couple of times a day, i.e., before going to work and in the evening.

I also participate in SETI@home and Einstein@home also. These two projects have enough work so that everyone interested gets something to do which keeps your interest up. LHC@home just doesn't have as much work and it's discouraging.
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Message 21530 - Posted: 6 Oct 2009, 12:43:26 UTC
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Hi, still hoping to get some work.

After having some trouble with BOINC versions 6.6.38 & 36.
Especially on WIN VISTA 32bit Home Edition. It\'s a HP Pavillion with a Q6600 and 2 GiG DDR2 RAM

Still missing SP2, have to be downloaded and installed, it took 34 times, to, finally install SP1, though.

Seeing the last post, in this forum, it looks like there isn\'t much of a chance, getting work.

Is the Large Hadron Collider, still out off order, or in some testing fase?
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Message 21536 - Posted: 7 Oct 2009, 11:08:00 UTC - in response to Message 21530.  

Is the Large Hadron Collider, still out off order, or in some testing fase?

As far as I know LHC itself is now starting up. Don\'t get your hopes up though, it is doubtful that LHC@home will get serious work later on, considering that LHC has its own internal GRID.

You can find more in LCH Café, somewhere in the \"apologies\" thread.
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