1) Message boards : Number crunching : Status of LHC@home (Message 22852)
Posted 22 Aug 2011 by Profile Alex Owen
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LHC@home (classic) will live on as far as we can see but will be hosted at CERN. LHC@Home 2.0 is a new project also at CERN. SO this is a good thing... a new project and further developments of the original project.

Alex
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Why BOINC 6.X has issues with LHC@home and other things (Message 20726)
Posted 30 Oct 2008 by Profile Alex Owen
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Hello,
As Neasan said I have been working out at CERN with Eric McIntosh trying to work out why these jobs have been failing... To help debug this we have sent some more jobs through the system, some of these jobs have run OK some have failed. We are working on this although we do not fully understand it... yet!

Alex
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Garfield is now available (Message 20431)
Posted 19 Sep 2008 by Profile Alex Owen
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We have a problem with the garfield validator... We have not yet fixed this... hence no work.
Alex
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Actual LHC data to crunch? (Message 20206)
Posted 11 Sep 2008 by Profile Alex Owen
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Hi there,
We still have some more tuning to do on the LHC and your help for that is appreciated.

We also have some other particle physics projects in the pipeline.

Alex
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Well, those pesky 0.00x pending WU's are still here...... (Message 19983)
Posted 2 Sep 2008 by Profile Alex Owen
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Doesn't look like the server upgrade did anything about the 5+ pages of these I have!

bummer.......


Please can you give me some more info so I can look into this problem...
Alex
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Please make me the Founder (Message 18668)
Posted 5 Dec 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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It appears you now have 3 teams needing a team founder change.
Why not knock all these off your to do list at one time.

Krunchin-Keith [USA] user id# 289 for team USA id# 26
Yank user id# 23101 for team US Navy id# 143
Major user id# 34513 for team SETI.Germany team id# 42


Thanks...

I will try and contact the current founders.
If their e-mails bounce I'll change the founder this week.
If the e-mail does not bounce I plan to make the change in the week begining the 7th Jan 2008.

Alex Owen
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Please make me the Founder (Message 18353)
Posted 24 Oct 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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I'm afraid that was another team...
I'll look at this now.
Alex


Thanks Alex and Neasan, just curious if you have 'had a look' yet?
As yet it has not changed, does it take a few days perhaps to take effect?.


Err... no sadly I got distrated the other day.
It is done now!
Alex
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Please make me the Founder (Message 18339)
Posted 22 Oct 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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G'Day Neasan
Would this be able to be done before the new server code update or after?
I know how to wait (my original request was made on the 8 July 2006).
Just wondering now that you have kicked the project along a bit more.
It is not only for me as others would like this as well, as you can see from this thread.

Thanks Conan.


Hmm I asked Alex to do this and he said he had, may have been another person/team I'll check now


I'm afraid that was another team...
I'll look at this now.
Alex
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Happenings... (Message 18042)
Posted 12 Oct 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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Hi, As I just explained in another thread we have throttled the settings back fo a few days to coincide with a press release so that the jobs get shareed around a bit... especially if we get some new users.

Normal service to return next week.

Alex
10) Message boards : Number crunching : work units?? (Message 18041)
Posted 12 Oct 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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Hi,
We are releasing a Press Release today to officially Launch the LHC@HOME move to the UK. So we might expect some new users to turn up over the weekend! Please be nice to them ;-)

So that they have a fighting chance of getting a job to process we changed some of the settings including the daily quota.

We will change things back to normal over the first few days next week...

Happy Crunching (if a little bit throttled for a few days!)

Alex Owen
11) Message boards : Number crunching : lhcathometest? (Message 17221)
Posted 3 Jul 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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No one is supposed to know about lhcathometest.
It is an internal testing and staging area only.
The fact that you can see it is probably an apache config bug on my part!

lhcathometest is not a replacement for lhcathomealpha. If we need some testing which needs volunteer help we will create an lhcathomealpha project and ask for help. We don't have a need for that kind of testing at the moment hence no lhcathomealpha project at the moment!

Alex
12) Message boards : Number crunching : lhcathometest? (Message 17203)
Posted 3 Jul 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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temp quirk.. should be fixed now!
13) Message boards : Number crunching : The new look bugs (Message 17202)
Posted 3 Jul 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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The two links in Download BOINC are still showing Error 403 Access forbidden!


For some reason the URL is encoded in the mysql database...
Ah... the joys of working with boinc!
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Few test jobs in flight! (Message 17072)
Posted 21 Jun 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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Hi there, I've just put a handfull of work units (approx 50) on the LHC@HOME server to check that all is well before we get production jobs on here.

Bye for now
Alex
15) Message boards : Number crunching : LHC on Mac OSX? (Message 16964)
Posted 4 Jun 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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As of today LHC is only running on Windows and Linux - any chance there'll be an OSX version in the future?


I don't want to get your hope up too much... but we are starting to look into this.

Alex
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Merge?? (Message 16962)
Posted 4 Jun 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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Appologies...
Database problems over the weekend.
Quick fix inplace and working on permenant fix.

Alex
17) Message boards : Number crunching : server stats (Message 16939)
Posted 1 Jun 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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Server is:

HP DL380
2x 300GB 10k disks hardware mirrored
2GB ram
2x Xeon 3GHz CPU

Debian 4.0 Etch

Gbit switched network connection to JANET backbone (I think)

Alex
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Good things come to those who wait. (Message 16938)
Posted 1 Jun 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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Hi there people...
Some teething toubles behind the sceens but I think I'm winning!

Thanks for your kind words of support!

Alex
19) Message boards : Number crunching : How do we (Message 16932)
Posted 25 May 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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Test post after migration!
20) Message boards : Number crunching : How do we (Message 16907)
Posted 16 May 2007 by Profile Alex Owen
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The idea is that to migrate you will have to do nothing!

Techincally we will change the cern.ch DNS entry to point to an IP address in the Queen Mary, University of London network (138.37.0.0/16).
The rest should then fall into place!


Alex Owen
LHC@Home server admin


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