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Send message Joined: 19 Nov 09 Posts: 6 Credit: 259,750 RAC: 0 |
Can't seem to get any work units. Is this project still alive? |
Send message Joined: 19 Nov 09 Posts: 6 Credit: 259,750 RAC: 0 |
As no one has responded I will assume this project is no longer active and pass the word on. |
Send message Joined: 15 Dec 11 Posts: 11 Credit: 624,830 RAC: 0 ![]() ![]() |
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. |
Send message Joined: 19 Nov 09 Posts: 6 Credit: 259,750 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
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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Send message Joined: 19 Feb 08 Posts: 708 Credit: 4,336,250 RAC: 0 ![]() ![]() |
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. Tullio |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 9 Oct 10 Posts: 77 Credit: 3,671,357 RAC: 0 |
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 ... :( |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
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. |
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Well thanks for support. Hang in there. It has only been 10 years. 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. Roger "Any fool can appreciate mountain scenery. It takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens." [Harry Godwin - pollen analyst - circa 1932] |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1115 Credit: 49,708,345 RAC: 14,067 ![]() ![]() |
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. Volunteer Mad Scientist For Life |
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Tasks in progress 18,263 Yet I can't get ONE ![]() Volunteer Mad Scientist For Life |
Send message Joined: 12 Jul 11 Posts: 857 Credit: 1,619,050 RAC: 0 |
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. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1115 Credit: 49,708,345 RAC: 14,067 ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() Volunteer Mad Scientist For Life |
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