LHC@home

i have decided to start downloading tasks again from cern sixtrack and am having difficulty receiving new work units.

Thu May 9 17:39:31 2013 | LHC@home 1.0 | work fetch resumed by user
Thu May 9 17:39:45 2013 | LHC@home 1.0 | update requested by user
Thu May 9 17:39:48 2013 | LHC@home 1.0 | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
Thu May 9 17:39:48 2013 | LHC@home 1.0 | Requesting new tasks for CPU
Thu May 9 17:39:50 2013 | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Thu May 9 17:39:50 2013 | LHC@home 1.0 | No tasks sent

my understanding is that other users are also having difficulties. is there a solution in the works? this problem applies whether i'm running linux or windows 8. i'm pretty disappointed that i may miss out on new work units (again) since lately they have been few and far between.

SixTrack work is in waves with long pauses in between so this is typical.

You can contribute to the other parts of the project on a more regular basis but these require VirtualBox and hardware support of virtualization.

Very true as Toby said.

We have several members here that only run Sixtrack and they grab ALL of them within a few minutes so you would have to be very lucky to get any of those.

But you can run Theory VB tasks here with your host since you have enough ram for that so if you haven't installed VB do that and give it a try.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_2