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Message 27734 - Posted: 30 Mar 2016, 13:48:24 UTC

Can't seem to get any work units.

Is this project still alive?
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Message 27735 - Posted: 30 Mar 2016, 20:30:11 UTC - in response to Message 27734.  

As no one has responded I will assume this project is no longer active and pass the word on.
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Message 27736 - Posted: 31 Mar 2016, 7:49:55 UTC

Not very constructive to wait less than 1/3 of a day for an answer. This project is indeed alive. But it has currently only few WUs.
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Message 27737 - Posted: 31 Mar 2016, 14:22:06 UTC - in response to Message 27736.  

Philipp

Thank you for your reply. You may think I was hasty but I had about 20 views of this question and no one had the courtesy to simply say "yes" until you.
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Message 27739 - Posted: 5 Apr 2016, 8:51:37 UTC

My apologies. We have had an even more difficult time
than usual before and around Easter. A fairly steady
flow of work should be coming now while we develop
our CERN infrastructure. This does give me the chance to say that
I attended a Seminar on HTCondor yesterday and I am beginning to
realise what an enormous amount of work has been by done by
you BOINC volunteers. I shall try and quantify this (CPU Hours?
FLOPY?) and post to the MBs. Thanks for your interest and
support. Eric.
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Message 27740 - Posted: 9 Apr 2016, 2:22:26 UTC

It is indeed alive. Every so often I find huge batches of WUs on my BOINC manager waiting to be crunched. I run almost exclusively Rosetta and LHC SixTrack, with priority given to LHC due to its intermittent supply of WUs.
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Message 27751 - Posted: 23 Apr 2016, 6:57:35 UTC
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Once in a while LHC@home wakes up and showers me with tasks. vLHC@home sends me a maximum of 2 tasks. Atlas@home sends me a number of tasks equal to the number of cores, 4 on the Windows 10 PC and 2 on this Linux host. Maybe LHC@home should adopt the same technique.
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Message 27754 - Posted: 24 Apr 2016, 4:48:44 UTC - in response to Message 27751.  

Hmmm, not sure why this should happen. As far as I know we are
just using the BOINC scheduler.....I'll ask my colleagues. While it
is "normal" that there may be no work available, I can't see why
you should get a shower of WUs. Eric.
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Message 27755 - Posted: 25 Apr 2016, 13:31:18 UTC
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It's just a matter of luck ... sometimes, on of my machine will get work (filling up cache), but all other will miss the window and will remain idle ... :(
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Message 27756 - Posted: 25 Apr 2016, 18:25:17 UTC - in response to Message 27755.  

Well thanks for support. Hang in there. It has only been 10 years.
I'm hoping for better things THIS year and working towards that.
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Message 27769 - Posted: 31 May 2016, 14:55:56 UTC - in response to Message 27756.  

Well thanks for support. Hang in there. It has only been 10 years.
I'm hoping for better things THIS year and working towards that.
Eric.


Hi Eric - and thanks again for all your work behind the scenes.

I get the impression the supply of WUs has been fewer than usual recently, tho' like other posters I do get a welcome surprise download from time to time since adjusting priorities. I look forward to your idea of more specific reporting on what has been achieved - will be interesting.

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Message 27781 - Posted: 23 Jul 2016, 21:50:07 UTC

I decided to grab a few tasks here since it had been a few months and the server said I could get some.

Reminded me of a couple things here.......I couldn't post here until I got a few Valids......AND it gave my 8-core 112 tasks like I didn't have any other tasks running already!

Been a long time since my first day with the Sixtrack team in 2004


Back to work......102 left to crunch here right now.
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Message 27787 - Posted: 1 Aug 2016, 11:35:06 UTC

Tasks in progress 18,263

Yet I can't get ONE
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Message 27790 - Posted: 4 Aug 2016, 9:02:45 UTC - in response to Message 27787.  

Patience please; the CERN infrastructure is falling apart. I can't build
Windows executables anymore. I will post when we are organised and I
expect we shall have lots of work. Eric.
(We are volunteers mainly too, personally ten years retired now, but still
fighting!) Eric.
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Message 27809 - Posted: 8 Sep 2016, 11:26:33 UTC - in response to Message 27790.  
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No problem Eric

You can tell I tend to stay with the project as long as they exist when it comes to Cern
(I will start my 13th year here next month) and I have been retired for almost 20 years.

Glad to see you have some tasks running.

I always have plenty of the vLHC,Atlas,vLHC-dev,and some Atlas-alpha too.

But I like to get some here for my 8-core to do......and you know what can happen if our Rac drops down too far

But just remember you can always email me if that happens again
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