LHC@home

I'm a new guy here, and I am from China, I love physics. It an honor to be here.

Welcome here, PhyzX :-)))

Hi guys / gals:
This looks like a newbie thread? Am really excited to be part of this, but have a lot to learn. Can someone kindly advise me, is it OK just to suspend BOINC at any time and shut the computer down? What if I'm going away for a while? Is there any way of saying "finish this task then shut down" so that the current work isn't wasted? Currently my BOINC manager says that remaining time is >10 hrs, and my poor machine has been whirring away for about 10 hours already, and I think we all need a rest!

Hi guys / gals:
This looks like a newbie thread? Am really excited to be part of this, but have a lot to learn. Can someone kindly advise me, is it OK just to suspend BOINC at any time and shut the computer down? What if I'm going away for a while? Is there any way of saying "finish this task then shut down" so that the current work isn't wasted? Currently my BOINC manager says that remaining time is >10 hrs, and my poor machine has been whirring away for about 10 hours already, and I think we all need a rest!

Well it looks like you figured out how to run all the versions of VB tasks here Valid

All you have to do is set your Boinc manager LHC Projects to *No New Tasks* and it will just finish the ones you have left and send them in and then just sit there waiting for the next time you set the Boinc Manager to *Allow New Tasks*

With your 8-core with almost 16GB ram you could run all 8 cores with the VB Theory tasks but you should not try running all 8 cores with Atlas or CMS unless you add another 8GB ram

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Thanks, Magic!

" With your 8-core with almost 16GB ram you could run all 8 cores with the VB Theory tasks but you should not try running all 8 cores with Atlas or CMS unless you add another 8GB ram" - how do I control the number of cores I run? And what would go wrong if I tried running 8 cores with Atlas or CMS?

Really appreciate your help :-)

Nick

how do I control the number of cores I run?

in the preference settings on your personal webpage you can determine the number of cores in the field "Max # CPUs".

And what would go wrong if I tried running 8 cores with Atlas or CMS?

you run out of memory which causes the tasks to fail.

Thanks again! :-)