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Message 52270 - Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:04:59 UTC
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I'm new to LHC and somewhat dazed by the Theory Simulation project's tasks. No other project that I've run has task completion times of a single project range from a couple of hundred seconds to 864,000* seconds (*upper limit timeout if I understand correctly). That's a ratio from slowest to fastest of over 4,000!

What is it about this project's crunching that produces such wildly varying runtimes?

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P.S ATLAS is cool...and for now the only LHC project I allow.
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Message 52271 - Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 11:24:41 UTC - in response to Message 52270.  

... What is it about this project's crunching that produces such wildly varying runtimes?...

It's a result of the scientific input which you get (by random) from the backend queues.
More details can be found here:
http://mcplots-dev.cern.ch/
currently in progress:
http://mcplots-dev.cern.ch/production.php?view=revision&rev=2922
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