1) Message boards : ATLAS application : hits file upload fails immediately (Message 49739)
Posted 8 Mar 2024 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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More recent web servers may have a default limit of 1GB, while there was no limit in the past. We have increased the limit to 2 on our latest file servers, so uploads should normally work on the next attempt. However, if the squids are limited too, you might be blocked earlier.
2) Message boards : ATLAS application : Upload Problems (Message 49721)
Posted 7 Mar 2024 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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Our file servers ran out of memory with the big batch of hits files. Sorry for this. We are adding more file servers today, so please retry uploads later.
3) Message boards : ATLAS application : hits file upload fails immediately (Message 49720)
Posted 7 Mar 2024 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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Sorry for this, we have added more file servers, so hopefully the upload for those tasks should work now if you retry.
4) Message boards : ATLAS application : hits file upload fails immediately (Message 49703)
Posted 5 Mar 2024 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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We have added swap on most of the file servers, so hopefully they should finish uploads and not crash.
5) Message boards : ATLAS application : hits file upload fails immediately (Message 49699)
Posted 5 Mar 2024 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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We are still trying to debug the file upload blocker on the servers, as we have not set a limit, but the httpd process crashes during these uploads. What is strange is that we have not seen these mpm prefork crashes before, probably because the files were smaller. It looks like the servers run out of memory during the upload.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Double counting? (Message 49652)
Posted 26 Feb 2024 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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As far as I can see, this is not on the project side. On our servers the DB-dump jobs are running and the contents of the html/stats directories of the 2 projects different. (Orders of magnitude more hosts and users for LHC@home than our dev project.)
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Broken website features. (Message 49262)
Posted 25 Jan 2024 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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The link has been updated to point to the production MC plots server. (The dev server that was there before had some issues, ref. this post. )
8) Message boards : News : Seasons greetings (Message 49060)
Posted 22 Dec 2023 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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Many thanks to all our volunteers for your contributions to LHC@home over the last year!

Some highlights from CERN during 2023 can be seen in this video.

The LHC@home team wishes you a Merry Christmas, restful holidays and all the best for 2024!
9) Message boards : News : Downtime Monday 18th (Message 48570)
Posted 18 Sep 2023 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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Was between 8 and 9 AM CET. Finished now.
10) Message boards : News : Downtime Monday 18th (Message 48568)
Posted 17 Sep 2023 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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The LHC@home BOINC servers will be degraded on Monday 18th of September due to a database upgrade. BOINC clients are likely to generate errors when trying to download or upload tomorrow morning.

Thanks for your contributions and happy crunching!
11) Message boards : News : Server upgrade (Message 47723)
Posted 24 Jan 2023 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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The LHC@home BOINC servers have been upgraded to the latest server release, 1.4.2.
12) Message boards : News : Seasons greetings (Message 47595)
Posted 21 Dec 2022 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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Many thanks to all our volunteers for your contributions to LHC@home over the last year!

We in the LHC@home team wish you a Merry Christmas and restful holidays.
13) Message boards : News : Best wishes for 2022 (Message 46003)
Posted 5 Jan 2022 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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The LHC@home team wishes you all a Happy New Year and all the best for 2022!

The simulations carried out under LHC@home contribute to improvements to the LHC accelerator as well as the experiments. The upcoming Run 3 of the LHC shall start soon.

Meanwhile you can take a look at this video with highlights from CERN during 2021.

Many thanks for your contributions and happy crunching!
14) Message boards : Sixtrack Application : Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down. (Message 44696)
Posted 10 Apr 2021 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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Sorry for this, there is high load on our upload servers. We have added 2 more file servers now, hopefully that should help.
15) Message boards : News : Database issues (Message 44628)
Posted 31 Mar 2021 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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We are checking our result records and will trigger a re-validation of results that did not get validated properly during the DB outage.
16) Message boards : News : Database issues (Message 44599)
Posted 29 Mar 2021 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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Our database cluster is heavily loaded today, and LHC@home services time out from time to time. Our DBA is trying to fix this. Sorry for the trouble and happy crunching.
17) Message boards : News : Downtime Wed 20/1 (Message 44155)
Posted 19 Jan 2021 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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LHC@home servers will be down for a database upgrade tomorrow Wednesday 20th of January early afternoon GMT.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and happy crunching!
18) Message boards : News : Best wishes for 2021 (Message 44067)
Posted 5 Jan 2021 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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We would like to warmly thank all our volunteers for your contributions during 2020!

The LHC@home team also wishes you a Happy and hopefully healthy 2021!

For those interested, please find some highlights of CERN activities during 2020 and recent findings from the CMS experiment on our web pages.
19) Message boards : News : Possible upload delays Wednesday 14/10 (Message 43494)
Posted 13 Oct 2020 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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Due to an upgrade of our Ceph storage on Wednesday 14th of October, there might be delays to file uploads and data assimilation. Should be back to normal by Wednesday evening.
20) Message boards : News : BOINC database downtime (Message 43316)
Posted 7 Sep 2020 by Profile Nils Høimyr
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The LHC@home database will be down for a while this morning, due to a network interruption in the CERN data centre. Hence scheduler requests and uploads will fail for a while.

Sorry for the trouble and happy crunching.


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