Posts by Andrew Richard

1) Message boards : Number crunching : 10 second work unit (Strange Quirks - Not Quarks) (Message 22467) Posted 11 Aug 2010 by Andrew Richard Post: Just a quick update. I have had 24 tasks since Aug 1 and all have completed without error. Some were very short but there were a few that were in the 8 to 10 hour area. My system is a genuine Intel Core 2 Quad CPU running Windows XP SP3. Also, SETI and Einstein are two other projects running. This is odd... I have only had one task I believe in the same timeframe you have had 24. I am running same kind of computer and SP3... I wonder if it is because I am also running many more projects besides SETI and Einstein. 23 actually... However because I wanted to do as much as possible for the LHC project I set my resource share in BOINC Manager to 400 for LHC, 200 for SETI, 200 for SETI Beta and 100 for everything else. I also made my status: Wont get new tasks - for many of the projects when I start getting lots of tasks that need to be finished. Sometimes I run only SETI, sometimes Milkyway or Cosmology... All the while I keep LHC as: WILL get new tasks - yet I got far fewer than you. Thanks for your replies by the way.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : 10 second work unit (Strange Quirks - Not Quarks) (Message 22436) Posted 4 Aug 2010 by Andrew Richard Post: After many weeks of not receiving any work units I was pleased to see a new work unit this morning. The work unit was listed as an 8 hour task... But after only 10 seconds the unit terminated and is listed as 100 percent complete. This issue came up before when while attempting to process a task I turned on the screen saver. The LHC immediately gave an error message and terminated. Many of us are aware of that old issue but that is not what happened this time. This time I did not enable the screen saver. I also did not get an error message. In fact the work unit seems like it actually did get calculated and finished normally. However the very short time span leads me to believe there may be something amiss. Perhaps the elusive Higgs Boson is not all that elusive and I found it in ten seconds flat. The other possibility is that the work unit took a long time to process but we are actually living within the Schwartzchild radius of an ever expanding black hole the size of the visible Universe thereby warping time into itself. The third possibility is that there is something amiss at the LHC. I stand behind CERN 100 percent and hope we can work out these strange quirks (not to be confused with strange quarks). Best regards, Andrew in Florida USA

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