1) Message boards : News : Pausing submission of LHCb Applications (Message 37386)
Posted 20 Nov 2018 by rossi
Post:
Dear vigillian,

for running the BOINC service within LHCb we need to maintain a dedicated parallel infrastructure. This is mostly due to security reasons as there needs to be a different trust relationship with BOINC provided than for other resources. We have observed that the cost of operating and entertaining this parallel infrastructure is relatively high compared to our main infrastructure. For this reason we would like to reconsider how to operate BOINC from within LHCb computing and until then pause the service.

many regards
Stefan
2) Message boards : LHCb Application : Pausing submission of LHCb Applications (Message 37382)
Posted 20 Nov 2018 by rossi
Post:
[this is a copy/paste of message https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=4884 to make sure it is also posted in this thread]

Dear BOINC Volunteers,

LHCb has been very grateful to the BOINC community in the past years for their support and provisioning of computing resources to run LHCb simulation jobs. Since the start of the service for LHCb you have provided computing resources that allowed us to execute a fantastic amount of 3.1 Million successful jobs which simulated 142'740'087 events. This work considerably contributed to the work of the experiment. Many thanks to you all !!!

Despite this success we have also observed that the work in connection to BOINC operations has grown in the past within the LHCb computing project and after internal discussions we have decided to pause the operations of the service and therefore not to run LHCb applications via BOINC for the time being with the possibility to re-open the service in the future.

Please note that the possibility to contribute computing resources to other BOINC projects stays untouched by this decision and we would like to encourage you to continue supporting also the other projects represented via the LHC@home BOINC service.

For now I would like to re-state my thanks to you, the BOINC community, for your support.

Best regards

Dr. Stefan Roiser
LHCb Computing Project Leader
stefan.roiser@cern.ch
3) Message boards : News : Pausing submission of LHCb Applications (Message 37378)
Posted 19 Nov 2018 by rossi
Post:
Dear BOINC Volunteers,

LHCb has been very grateful to the BOINC community in the past years for their support and provisioning of computing resources to run LHCb simulation jobs. Since the start of the service for LHCb you have provided computing resources that allowed us to execute a fantastic amount of 3.1 Million successful jobs which simulated 142'740'087 events. This work considerably contributed to the work of the experiment. Many thanks to you all !!!

Despite this success we have also observed that the work in connection to BOINC operations has grown in the past within the LHCb computing project and after internal discussions we have decided to pause the operations of the service and therefore not to run LHCb applications via BOINC for the time being with the possibility to re-open the service in the future.

Please note that the possibility to contribute computing resources to other BOINC projects stays untouched by this decision and we would like to encourage you to continue supporting also the other projects represented via the LHC@home BOINC service.

For now I would like to re-state my thanks to you, the BOINC community, for your support.

Best regards

Dr. Stefan Roiser
LHCb Computing Project Leader
stefan.roiser@cern.ch



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