LHC@home

Dear volunteer developers.
My post is a consideration about long running tasks (Theory Simulation 300.08 (native_theory)).

I’m happy to donate 10 days of CPU to the Theory project.
I’m not interested to know why the task is so long or how I can enhance the performance of my PC to reduce the time of the elaboration.

I’d just like a fair play by the develop team.

I explain me better.
Before starting the job, every WU has a “Remaining (estimated)” time of few hours (less than 4 hours).
Dear developers, please rise the estimated time to 240/300 hours.
Why am I asking it?
Boinc downloads an excessive number of WU because it thinks the estimated elaboration time is few hours. Boinc cannot figure out the Theory WU will last 10 days. Lots of WUs (lhc@home and other @home projects) will reach the deadline.

Thank you

System: OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, Intel i7-4790K, 32GB, 2TB SSD

Me too. I've wasted a lot of time when a long Theory task times out.

For example,
my current BOINC Manager work status is -

(The date of this post: 02/11/2024)

Project     Status      Elapsed         Remaining (estimated)       Deadline        Application                                 Name

LHC@home    Running     6d 09:32:46     3d 11:55:01                 01/11/2024      Theory Simulation 300.30 (vbox64_theory)    Theory_2794-3266819-199_1
LHC@home    Running     5d 23:40:10     3d 21:55:48                 01/11/2024      Theory Simulation 300.30 (vbox64_theory)    Theory_2794-3257411-175_1

The LHC@home All tasks webpage (https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/results.php?userid=95350)
shows this -

Task        Work unit   Computer    Sent            Time reported       Status                      Run time    CPU time    Credit      Application
                                                    or deadline                                     (sec)       (sec)

415137523   225914767   10860321    22 Oct 2024     2 Nov 2024          Timed out - no response     0.00        0.00        ---         Theory Simulation v300.30 (vbox64_theory)
                                                                                                                                        x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

415142791   226066966   10860321    22 Oct 2024    27 Oct 2024          Completed and validated     311,018.69  235,746.40  719.95      Theory Simulation v300.30 (vbox64_theory)
                                                                                                                                        x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

415137790   225932422   10860321    22 Oct 2024     2 Nov 2024          Timed out - no response     0.00        0.00        ---         Theory Simulation v300.30 (vbox64_theory)
                                                                                                                                        x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

No doubt the timed-out tasks would have eventually provided a valid result - if they'd have had more time.
Why not up the servers default response from 10 to 20 days?

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