1) Message boards : Number crunching : Very Slow Upload Speeds (Message 52124)
Posted 27 Aug 2025 by keputnam
Post:
/sarc
I love commuters
/sarc off

and with no changes to my computer, I am now getting upload speeds in excess of 1 MBps

<sigh>
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Very Slow Upload Speeds (Message 52112)
Posted 25 Aug 2025 by keputnam
Post:
Definitely some kind of mismatch between me and the project servers

I tried several Internet Speed Test sites. Downloads were between 500 and 550 Mbs Uploads between 50 and 60 Mbs
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Very Slow Upload Speeds (Message 52110)
Posted 24 Aug 2025 by keputnam
Post:
I'm getting abysmal upload speeds for completed ATLAS WUs (12 - 15 KB/sec) I can't imagine this is ATLAS specific, but can't find a WEBSITE specific sub group

Download speeds are in the MB/sec range

Any thoughts?
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : Computation Errors on Win11 (Message 51767)
Posted 26 Mar 2025 by keputnam
Post:
Tried backleveling Virtual Box to 7.0.4, the version in the LHC download package

Still have the same problem :-(
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : Computation Errors on Win11 (Message 51747)
Posted 23 Mar 2025 by keputnam
Post:
Yes

From Settings\System\Display\Graphics\Advanced

Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling is enabled

FWIW, Optimization for Windows games is also enabled
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Computation Errors on Win11 (Message 51743)
Posted 23 Mar 2025 by keputnam
Post:
Did a Win11 clean install (wiped the C: drive)


My BOINC Data Directory was on E:

Reinstalled BOINC (8.0.2) and Virtual Box (7.0.14)

All my other projects are running smoothly except for LHC

Every WU I attempt to run ends in a Computation Error I have even reset the project with the same results

Is there something majorly different in the way Win 10 and Win11 interface with LHC?


TIA for any assistance
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Adding an Avatar (Message 51557)
Posted 17 Feb 2025 by keputnam
Post:
Finally got around to trying to adding an avatar

Selected a JPG that is 100x68 pixels

Tired to upload it and get this error

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function gd_info() in /boincdata/boinc/project/lhcathome/html/inc/image.inc:23 Stack trace: #0 /boincdata/boinc/project/lhcathome/html/user/edit_forum_preferences_action.php(99): intelligently_scale_image() #1 {main} thrown in /boincdata/boinc/project/lhcathome/html/inc/image.inc on line 23

Anyone have any insight?


TIA
ken
8) Message boards : Number crunching : ALT-F2 Console Interface (Message 50485)
Posted 14 Jul 2024 by keputnam
Post:
Are there any plans to upgrade the ALT-F2 console interface to support the new log file format?

That was a very useful tool
9) Message boards : Number crunching : ALT-F2 Console Interface (Message 50410)
Posted 15 Jun 2024 by keputnam
Post:
Is the ALT-F2 console interface ever going to be updated to accommodate the new logging format on the VM?

That was really very handy
10) Message boards : ATLAS application : New Console Interface? (Message 48770)
Posted 13 Oct 2023 by keputnam
Post:
Any update on this?
11) Message boards : Theory Application : Group of stuck tasks (Message 48599)
Posted 20 Sep 2023 by keputnam
Post:
Have had exactly the same problem for the past week
12) Message boards : Theory Application : Theory Simulation task jumps to 10 Days time remaining... (Message 48598)
Posted 20 Sep 2023 by keputnam
Post:
clicking your link gives

No such task: 399093799
13) Message boards : Theory Application : Theory Simulation task jumps to 10 Days time remaining... (Message 48597)
Posted 20 Sep 2023 by keputnam
Post:
I also am seeing time remaining jump to around 10 days, and it never drops I let one run for two days, and time remaining never dropped

At the same time VBOXHEADLESS is using ZERO CPU according to Resource Monitor
14) Message boards : ATLAS application : New Console Interface? (Message 48097)
Posted 16 May 2023 by keputnam
Post:
Is there any estimate on having it fixed to analyze the new log format?
15) Message boards : ATLAS application : Thank you and goodbye! (Message 48036)
Posted 25 Apr 2023 by keputnam
Post:
Fair winds and Following seas
16) Message boards : ATLAS application : New Console Interface? (Message 47999)
Posted 12 Apr 2023 by keputnam
Post:
Yesterday, when I went into console mode, and did ALT-F2, I didn't see what I was used to seeing: a line with run time for the last event by each "processor" devoted to Atlas Instead I see one line reporting on the last event processed

and
Number of events
already finished

Event Runtimes
arithmetic mean
min/max

Estimated time left
total
uncertainty

all show N/A

I let the job run, and did receive credit for it

The job currently running exhibits the same behavior and periodically shows a rapidly scrolling mass of text, then goes back to the last event processed line

(wish I could do a screen-capture)
17) Message boards : ATLAS application : Bad WUs? (Message 47188)
Posted 27 Aug 2022 by keputnam
Post:
May or may not apply to you, but I had similar problems a while ago

At the suggestion of someone (don't remember if it was here or my ISP Help Desk), i connected my cruncher machine via copper rather than WIFI, even though I was using 802.11AC

All of my LLHC/Atlas connection problems went away
18) Message boards : Number crunching : No Tasks Available (Message 46781)
Posted 15 May 2022 by keputnam
Post:
Thank You !

I don't remember changing that, but obviously I did

Changed that (un-selected), saved, updated project from client and got 40 WUs !! all with due dates of 2022-05-23

with a historical min run time (on this machine) of just under 2 hours and a max of 5.5 hours averaging about 3 1/2 hours, there is no way I will successfully complete 40 WUs in 7 days!

The scheduler has done this to me before :-(
19) Message boards : Number crunching : No Tasks Available (Message 46779)
Posted 15 May 2022 by keputnam
Post:
I hadn't realized that about ATLAS Long, thanks I'll remove it from preferences

As for priority, LHC has the highest priority of any Project I run, and has for the last 18 months or so. Almost twice that of any other project except WCG (don't even get me started on the way their migration has been handled)

But why would Priority result in the "No tasks available" message? Isn't that more along the lines of "not highest priority"?
20) Message boards : Number crunching : No Tasks Available (Message 46778)
Posted 15 May 2022 by keputnam
Post:
Nope, no changes for LHC at all


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