1) Message boards : Theory Application : Made a small script to keep an eye on Theory jobs with correct % done (Message 51839)
Posted 11 days ago by Crystal Pellet
Post:
When you are running Theory work units under VirtualBox, is there any easy way to check the actual progress?
Is there a file you can check to see the progress?

Since you are using Linux: watch -n 1 tail -n 10 boincdatapath/slots/slotnumber/shared/runRivet.log
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : I changed my Windows 11 23h operating system to Windows 11 24h2. The CPU does not allow virtualization. (Message 51835)
Posted 12 days ago by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I followed the same steps as the previous version but I can't get the CPU to virtualize.

Did you check whether hyper-V and Memory Integrity are both disabled?
3) Message boards : Theory Application : Some Theory tasks on VirtualBox hang Probing /cvmfs/alice.cern.ch... (Message 51831)
Posted 17 days ago by Crystal Pellet
Post:
All of the problem tasks have a running.log that begins with the same line with the same old timestamp:
===> [runRivet] Wed Apr 2 05:28:25 PM UTC 2025 [boinc pp jets 13000 280 - pythia8 8.306 eetherm 100000 42]
I've killed off a couple more today.
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=421143601
https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=421141211

That is very weird. It looks like you're not using the default vdi, when different tasks come with the same job desciption (remnant of an old log?).
You could consider to reset the LHC project in your BOINC Manager.
4) Message boards : Theory Application : New Version v300.80 (Message 51708)
Posted 17 Mar 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Laurence wrote:
A new version is available that fixes this issue. The consoles are not currently available. The running.log file can be seen via the graphics.

After the fix the new version now is 300.80.
5) Message boards : Theory Application : New Version v300.70 (Message 51703)
Posted 17 Mar 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
In the file Theory_2025_03_17_prod.xml on line

<multiattach_vdi_file>Theory_2025_03_17_dev.vdi</multiattach_vdi_file>

the wrong name for the vdi-file is used.

Should be: Theory_2025_03_17_prod.vdi


On the consoles ALT-F1 and ALT-F2 no usefull information.
6) Message boards : Theory Application : Made a small script to keep an eye on Theory jobs with correct % done (Message 51689)
Posted 15 Mar 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I received some jobs that doesn't use the Event method to tell how the job is proceeding. Instead it uses 'Integrate' like this in the runRivet.log file: Integrate 318 of 760:
This is one of the Theory tasks with the SHERPA event generator.
These jobs have several (I think 4) steps before the real event generation starts.
These steps consist of integration and initialisation.
Most of the times the needed time for the last part (event generation) is shorter than the other steps together, so difficult to predict.
7) Message boards : ATLAS application : Extreme event processing times (Message 51608)
Posted 28 Feb 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I don't know if an automatic end is expected to happen after a certain period (?)
I thought that 807,403.00 seconds (more than 9 days and 8 hours) was enough time to give the chance...
For ATLAS is no automatic end set, but using only CPU time 54 min 33 sec in over 9 days is enough sign, that the task is not doing well.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Theory Simulation tasks failed (Message 51509)
Posted 8 Feb 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
You returned 2 valid Theory's this morning: https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/results.php?hostid=10822906&offset=0&show_names=0&state=4&appid=
9) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Computation Error at CMS and Theory tasks on MAC, Virtual Box issue? (Message 51504)
Posted 6 Feb 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
The problem seems to be caused by vboxwrapper v26208 deployed Jan.16.
The developer(s) are working on a fix. The problem does not appear with Linux and Windows OS.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : no LHC tasks running on my new Windows 11 - why ? (Message 51472)
Posted 29 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
So, what' wrong this time?

Edit: my guess: the wrapper 26206 should be relplaced by 26208 (as it was the case for CMS and Theory recently)

Good quess!
With ATLAS I have the same problems as mentioned here.
I had errors. valids (short runs without HITS) and only 1 real valid: https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/results.php?hostid=10690380&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0&appid=14
hm, how come your tasks used wrapper 26208, while mine downloaded 26206 (while 26208 was already present in the lhcathome... folder?

Probably because below my name is written: Volunteer tester ;)
11) Message boards : Number crunching : no LHC tasks running on my new Windows 11 - why ? (Message 51468)
Posted 29 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
So, what' wrong this time?

Edit: my guess: the wrapper 26206 should be relplaced by 26208 (as it was the case for CMS and Theory recently)

Good quess!
With ATLAS I have the same problems as mentioned here.
I had errors. valids (short runs without HITS) and only 1 real valid: https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/results.php?hostid=10690380&offset=0&show_names=0&state=0&appid=14
12) Message boards : ATLAS application : Computation Errors (Message 51463)
Posted 28 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Thank you Crystal,
looking tomorrow in this PC.
Today was for me Patchday with Windows.

I was wrong again. I must have looked at your results.

From client_state.xml
<app_version>
<app_name>ATLAS</app_name>
<version_num>301</version_num>
<platform>windows_x86_64</platform>
<avg_ncpus>4.000000</avg_ncpus>
<flops>9888112149.654190</flops>
<plan_class>vbox64_mt_mcore_atlas</plan_class>
<api_version>7.21.0</api_version>
<cmdline>--memory_size_mb 4800 --nthreads 4</cmdline>
<file_ref>
<file_name>vboxwrapper_26206_windows_x86_64.exe</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
<file_ref>
<file_name>ATLAS_vbox_3.01_job.xml</file_name>
<open_name>vbox_job.xml</open_name>
</file_ref>
<file_ref>
<file_name>ATLAS_vbox_3.01_image.vdi</file_name>
</file_ref>
<dont_throttle/>
<is_wrapper/>
<needs_network/>
</app_version>

If you don't want to reset the project, you could download the right exe: http://lhcathome-upload.cern.ch/lhcathome/download//vboxwrapper_26206_windows_x86_64.exe
13) Message boards : ATLAS application : Computation Errors (Message 51461)
Posted 28 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
You probably deleted vboxwrapper_26206_windows_x86_64.exe yourself, because v26207 and v26208 are also present in the projects directory.
V26206 is still used by ATLAS. The other 2 vboxwrappers were/are used by Theory and CMS.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Problem VirtualBox 7.1.0 with RDP (Remote Desktop) (Message 51457)
Posted 28 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I suppose it's not VBox version related, but something wrong with your proxy.
The Theory's you ran were working fine, but not CMS.
First you could try a CMS without a local proxy.
15) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : VirtualBox on Mac (Message 51430)
Posted 20 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Probably the reason of the errors on a Mac is here: https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=6277&postid=51426
16) Questions and Answers : Getting started : vboxwrapper 208 (Message 51428)
Posted 20 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I suppose it's not related to vboxwrapper 26208, but caused by vdi-remnants in VirtulaBox media. Have a look there.
17) Message boards : Theory Application : New version v300.60 (Message 51416)
Posted 16 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
On Windows vboxwrapper (v26208) was running fine too.

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/results.php?hostid=10690380&offset=0&show_names=0&state=4&appid=13
18) Message boards : Number crunching : no LHC tasks running on my new Windows 11 - why ? (Message 51401)
Posted 14 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Please recheck whether all features of Windows Hyper-V are diabled:

If not: - disable and reboot.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : no LHC tasks running on my new Windows 11 - why ? (Message 51399)
Posted 14 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Any other ideas ?
Did you follow Yeti's checklist? https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=4161&postid=29359
Special attention for disabling Windows Hyper-V and the remark about <p_vm_extensions_disabled>1</p_vm_extensions_disabled> in client_state.xml.
20) Message boards : Theory Application : New tasks all failing? (Message 51396)
Posted 13 Jan 2025 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Looks like the 1st step generates the events ...
It not only looks like, it tells you during the first step: POWHEG: generating events
Returned one: 10 hours of generation of the 100,000 events and 1.5 hours to process those events. https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/result.php?resultid=418770726


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