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1) Message boards : Cafe LHC : BOINC Census 2024
Message 51916
Posted 29 May 2025 by ProfileContact
The 2024 BOINC Census Results Are In!

Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s BOINC Census, organized by The Science Commons Initiative. The results are now available for anyone interested in learning more about the BOINC community’s makeup and opinions.

Raw Data & Visualizations:
The full anonymized dataset and charts are published on GitHub:
https://github.com/TheSCInitiative/BOINC/tree/main/BOINC_Census/2024

Summary Video:
There’s also a video breakdown of the findings here:
https://youtu.be/CMF4yAbqlnI

This census is part of independent research by TheSCInitiative and helps build a clearer picture of who’s involved in BOINC and what the community thinks. Thanks again to those who took the time to share their feedback!
2) Message boards : Cafe LHC : The 20 Years here starting in 2004
Message 51351
Posted 4 Jan 2025 by ProfileContact
Here is the first device that I attached to LHC@home. https://web.archive.org/web/20041106065007/http://lhcathome.cern.ch/show_host_detail.php?hostid=2637
Likely a Toshiba Laptop on dial-up internet access. Windows 98 Second Edition with GenuineIntel Pentium CPU and 128 MB memory. Amazing.
3) Message boards : Cafe LHC : BOINC Census 2024
Message 51258
Posted 8 Dec 2024 by ProfileContact

https://forms.fillout.com/t/m4ZSkCQMGAus

It's time for another The Science Commons Initiative sponsored BOINC Census!
There are a lot of new questions this year and I hope you all enjoy being able to give deeper feedback this time
This form will close on the 26th of Jan 2025
Please only complete this form once!
And make sure you give as much feedback as possible!
This census is not endorsed by BOINC but here are previous results:
https://thesciencecommons.org/BOINC/Census/2022/

https://thesciencecommons.org/BOINC/Census/2023/
Cheers!
4) Message boards : News : 20th BOINC Workshop May 29-31
Message 50167
Posted 10 May 2024 by ProfileContact
Registration for the 2024 BOINC Workshop in-person attendance has been extended until 15 May 2024.
The early deadline was needed to get everyone access credentials.
5) Message boards : News : BOINC Needs Votes at a Upcoming UN Forum
Message 49879
Posted 2 Apr 2024 by ProfileContact
The voting deadline has been extended until Thursday April 04 (23:00 UTC+02:00) and the instructions have been updated.
Please consider voting if you haven't already.
6) Message boards : Cafe LHC : First Boinc Workshop Online
Message 45009
Posted 26 May 2021 by ProfileContact
All 2021 BOINC Workshop videos are now online. There is a lot of great information documented here.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1YM32SpdGnb1S5b5gUJPyQ/videos

Of special interest to LHC:
2021 BOINC Workshop - Day 01 - Nils Høimyr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWEOLMn3Usw&list=PL53-FdJ6NUueHqfipxZ2W4QnTbHlTi5HN&index=9

2021 BOINC Workshop - Day 02 - Laurence Field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebhrDNYQdks&list=PL53-FdJ6NUueTHsM9SdL5Eyz6mUwPTjoM&index=8
7) Message boards : Cafe LHC : First Boinc Workshop Online
Message 44934
Posted 11 May 2021 by ProfileContact
2021 BOINC Workshop - Day 01 videos are now live!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL53-FdJ6NUueHqfipxZ2W4QnTbHlTi5HN
8) Message boards : Cafe LHC : First Boinc Workshop Online
Message 44834
Posted 27 Apr 2021 by ProfileContact
Day 3 - April 28 - Presentations, Community Discussion + Tutorials.
The agenda for Day 3 outlines another promising day in the BOINC workshop.

09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST -- Est program duration: 3.25 hours

START Matt Blumberg Welcome + the day’s agenda

+00:10 Steven Clark NanoHub

+00:25 Steffen Möller BOINC on OpenWrt

+00:40 Marko Jukic SiDock@home

+00:55 Breakout Session Topic brainstorm + polling

+01:05 TRACK 01: Breakout Sessions

+01:05 TRACK 02: Project Setup Tutorial

+02:15 Full group: Breakout reports + discussion

+03:00 Matt Blumberg Wrap up and closing notes
9) Message boards : Cafe LHC : First Boinc Workshop Online
Message 44782
Posted 22 Apr 2021 by ProfileContact
[VENETO] boboviz wrote:
Maybe some news about sixtrack gpu app.....
Yes. You're right. Laurence did mention a GPU app!
10) Message boards : Cafe LHC : First Boinc Workshop Online
Message 44773
Posted 20 Apr 2021 by ProfileContact
Only hours away from Day 2 Tech Talks - April 21.
09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST Est program duration: 3.25 hours


Register to attend if you haven't already. boincworkshop.org/register

START Matt Blumberg Welcome + the day’s agenda

+00:10 Mohanty Sharada AICrowd

+00:25 Medha Atre Eydle AI

+00:40 Max Ryabinin Learning@home

+00:55 Panel: "Issues for AI on Volunteer Computing"

+01:10 Ritu Arora BOINC@TACC

+01:25 Andy Bowery CPDN

+01:40 Vitalii Koshura BOINC for Android

+01:55 Laurence Field LHC@Home

+02:10 Bernd Machenschalk Einstein@Home

+02:25 Rytis Slatkevičius + Tristan Olive Charity Engine

+02:40 David Anderson BOINC Development: Past year + draft roadmap

+03:10 Matt Blumberg Wrap up + look forward to next week
11) Message boards : Cafe LHC : First Boinc Workshop Online
Message 44722
Posted 12 Apr 2021 by ProfileContact
There are awesome additions to the Schedule for The 2021 BOINC Workshop.
Steven Clark from nanoHUB has been added to The World of BOINC presentations on April 14 (only 2 sleeps from now) and Max Ryabinin from Learning@home has been added to Tech Talks on April 21.

Vitalii Koshura - BOINC for Android, Steven Clark - nanoHUB (San Diego Supercomputer Center) and Max Ryabinin - Learning@home have been added to the Speakers List.

The agenda for Community Discussion + Tutorials on April 28 has not been posted yet but World Community Grid Tech Keith Uplinger has an exciting announcement for that day:
"I am planning on doing a tutorial similar to what I did in Chicago about setting up a BOINC server and running from scratch. My plan is to have it run on ubuntu 20.04 for ease of use for those to set it up."

I received my login details to Day 1, "The World of BOINC", on Wednesday, April 14 several hours ago, so they are being sent out now. There's still time to Register for this free event.
12) Message boards : Cafe LHC : First Boinc Workshop Online
Message 44679
Posted 8 Apr 2021 by ProfileContact

boincworkshop.org/

📣 There have been recent updates to the BOINC Workshop website.
Go ahead and register if you haven't already. boincworkshop.org/register

https://www.boincworkshop.org/schedule wrote:
Schedule
The World of BOINC. April 14.
Come join the annual showcase of research projects using BOINC, and see what crowd-powered research is making possible today.

09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST

Est program duration: 3 hours

START Matt Blumberg Welcome + the day’s agenda

00:10 David Anderson BOINC Initiatives

00:40 Marcus Belcastro Review of active BOINC projects

00:55 Rytis Slatkevičius The Science Cloud

01:10 Bruce Allen Einstein@Home

01:25 Nils Høimyr LHC@home

01:40 David Wollom ClimatePrediction.net

01:55 Juan Hindo World Community Grid: COVID Research

02:10 John Clemens MachineLearning@home (MLC@home)

02:25. Ritu Arora TACC@home: COVID Research

02:40 Matt Blumberg Find.Bio + Charity Engine

02:55 Matt Blumberg Wrap up + look forward to next week

Tech Talks. April 21.
If you’re running a BOINC project, please join us to discuss technical aspects of your project: accomplishments, goals, and needs.

09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST

Est program duration: 3 hours

START Matt Blumberg Welcome + the day’s agenda

00:10 Medha Atre Eydle AI

00:25 Mohanty Sharada AICrowd

00:40 Panel: "Issues for AI on Volunteer Computing"

01:10 Ritu Arora TACC@home

01:25 Andy Bowery CPDN

01:40 Vitalii Koshura BOINC Andriod

01:55 Nils Høimyr LHC@Home

02:10 Rytis Slatkevičius + Tristan Olive Charity Engine

02:25 David Anderson BOINC Development: Past year + draft roadmap

02:55 Matt Blumberg Wrap up + look forward to next week
https://www.boincworkshop.org/speakers wrote:
Speakers
David Anderson
BOINC, Science United

Nils Høimyr
LHC@Home (CERN)

Juan Hindo
World Community Grid (IBM)

Ritu Arora
TACC@home (Texas Advanced Computing Center )

Rytis Slatkevicius
The Science Cloud, Charity Engine, Find.Bio, PrimeGrid

Medha Atre
Eydle AI

Ashwini Rao
Eydle AI

Bruce Allen
Einstein@home (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), BOINC PMC

Matt Blumberg
Charity Engine, Find.Bio, GridRepublic, BOINC PMC

David Wollom
ClimatePrediction.net (Oxford University)

John Clemens
MLC@home (University of Maryland)

Marcus Belcastro
BOINC Radio

Mohanty Sharada
AICrowd

Keith Uplinger
World Community Grid (IBM), BOINC PMC

Andy Bowery
ClimatePrediction.net (Oxford University)

Tristan Olive
Charity Engine, Find.Bio

13) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Congratulations on the start up!
Message 20182
Posted 11 Sep 2008 by ProfileContact
A good day for the LHC. A day I will remember.
Cheers to all indeed!
And now, a bit more patience.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Is This Spam?
Message 19372
Posted 12 Apr 2008 by ProfileContact
Neasan wrote:
I apologise but some of the stuff that needs to be done is a little outside my expertise (I know very little MYSQL etc) and while I'd generally jump in two feet first and mess around this usually breaks something and as a rule effects no one but this project is a little bigger.

It may involve you needing to clone yourself, but reconsider re-opening the alpha site where you can mess around and maybe get helpful advice from those participants willing to jump in two feet first with you.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Work Units making PC freeze
Message 19235
Posted 14 Mar 2008 by ProfileContact
I have been running LHC for a while now but just lately the work units are making my computer freeze.

Has anyone else noticed this or anything similar?

I always have BOINC running at 100% even when i am working on the PC.

John.


I've also had troubles running LHC work very recently.
Not only when the screensaver is running.
It seems to bog down my machines (all are old and crappy) during specific times of calculation; possibly close to the beginning or end of the wu.
On one very old machine I'm seeing blue screen of death with "Can't write to hard drive" errors only while running LHC work.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : work units??
Message 17836
Posted 12 Sep 2007 by ProfileContact
... :)
17) Message boards : Number crunching : A Miracle!
Message 15497
Posted 18 Nov 2006 by ProfileContact
MAGIC wrote:

I finally got some work here!!

My feelings exactly!
Only once in recent memory have i been awake in this time zone to see (much less download) work. Real good sign.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : work waiting on the 8th of november
Message 15412
Posted 10 Nov 2006 by ProfileContact
Hallo Sysfried and LHC volunteers,

We are alive indeed, and yesterday and today we met at CERN with the Queen Mary College staff members who will be taking over the system administration and operation of the LHC@home server.

They will introduce themselves shortly to all our volunteers and let you know the timeline of the server move as planning proceeds.

Ben Segal / LHC@home

Very cool. Very exciting! Sometimes patience is a good practice, but work/play is way more fun.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : New URL to attach?
Message 14758
Posted 21 Sep 2006 by ProfileContact
I just now got errors trying to connect with server using the old URL.
Attached to new URL (new project name now) and am able to connect but no new work for now.
20) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 5.1.1 != LHC@Home
Message 10103
Posted 12 Sep 2005 by ProfileContact
<blockquote>I'm just a) curious if anyone knows when LHC will support 5.x clients,</blockquote>
See Markku's response here.
We gotta be patient for a while yet.

<blockquote>and b) letting the LHC group know that there are those of us out here who would like to see LHC support 5.x.</blockquote>
Thanks! Me too :-)
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