1) Message boards : LHC@home Science : screensaver/graphics bug (Message 23237)
Posted 24 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:

I do agree that visual attraction is important. We plan to resurect the screen saver, but it should not be coupled to the program any more.


Maybe it will be enough to give an animation of particles speeding in the LHC tunnel, animated WU progress bar and some small but interesting pictures connected with CERN. This will not affect the calculation of WU and should be attractive.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Too low credits granted in LHC (Message 23230)
Posted 23 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
LHC is awarding proper credit. Primegrid is awarding too much credit. Primegrid should change, not LHC.


So compare to other projects and You most often will get credit/s value 1.5-2.3 times higher than in SixTrack.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Too low credits granted in LHC (Message 23224)
Posted 23 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
I think LHC is giving too low credits to theirs participants.
For example:

LHC
Task ID
click for details 	Computer 	Sent 	Time reported
or deadline
explain 	Status 	Run time
(sec) 	CPU time
(sec) 	Claimed credit 	Granted credit 	Application
304660 	9931946 	22 Sep 2011 4:09:15 UTC 	22 Sep 2011 16:34:44 UTC 	Completed and validated 	17,295.55 	15,779.43 	88.70 	88.08 	SixTrack v530.08
304661 	9929870 	22 Sep 2011 4:08:11 UTC 	22 Sep 2011 11:11:10 UTC 	Completed and validated 	17,255.95 	16,319.18 	87.46 	88.08 	SixTrack v530.08


about 0.00558 credit per second


PrimeGrid
Zadania
click for details 	Komputery 	Sent 	Time reported
or deadline
explain 	Status 	Run time
(sec) 	CPU time
(sec) 	Stwórz 	Aplikacje
302224595 	206320 	22 Sep 2011 | 13:20:05 UTC 	22 Sep 2011 | 20:31:31 UTC 	Completed and validated 	1,083.38 	1,078.15 	19.68 	PPS (LLR) v6.09
302227986 	175914 	22 Sep 2011 | 13:28:34 UTC 	22 Sep 2011 | 14:47:53 UTC 	Completed and validated 	1,488.86 	1,218.30 	19.68 	PPS (LLR) v6.09 


about 0.01615 cretit per second
it is 3 times more than in LHC
(on the same PC)



I know LHC is very important project for science and I do not participate for credits, but I think LHC should reward it's participants with higher credits, like others project do.
Of course it is no high priority for admins, but they should look at this in near future...

Nawiedzony
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Daily quota (Message 23182)
Posted 21 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
Yes I know about that ("beam hit the wall"), but it still sucks, when all yours daily quota is lost for 5s WUs...
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit awarded calculation (Message 23151)
Posted 20 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
Also LHC scoring is very low, for example:
Task ID
click for details 	Computer 	Sent 	Time reported
or deadline
explain 	Status 	Run time
(sec) 	CPU time
(sec) 	Claimed credit 	Granted credit 	Application
186221 	9929870 	18 Sep 2011 17:57:36 UTC 	18 Sep 2011 21:27:39 UTC 	Completed and validated 	6,227.83 	5,417.91 	28.68 	28.68 	SixTrack v530.08


188.9s/1 credit

Status 	Run time (sec) 	CPU time (sec) 	Stwórz 	Aplikacje
Completed and validated 	1,813.98 	1,646.33 	17.38 	PPS (LLR) v6.09


only 94.7s/1 credit, so in 188.9s it will give 2 credits
6) Message boards : Number crunching : HTTP error after de/reattach (Message 23054)
Posted 16 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
Now project start working again on my PC :)
2011-09-16 08:51:58 | LHC@home 1.0 | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
2011-09-16 08:51:58 | LHC@home 1.0 | Requesting new tasks for CPU
2011-09-16 08:51:59 | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
2011-09-16 08:52:01 | LHC@home 1.0 | Started download of wbnlaug10_lhc270_24_1_boinc__2__s__64.31_59.32__30_32__5__76.5_1_sixvf_boinc102387.zip
2011-09-16 08:52:03 | LHC@home 1.0 | Finished download of wbnlaug10_lhc270_24_1_boinc__2__s__64.31_59.32__30_32__5__76.5_1_sixvf_boinc102387.zip
2011-09-16 09:26:11 | LHC@home 1.0 | Computation for task wbnlaug10_lhc272_25_11_v4308_boinc__45__s__64.31_59.32__14_16__5__37.5_1_sixvf_boinc96944_1 finished
2011-09-16 09:26:14 | LHC@home 1.0 | Started upload of wbnlaug10_lhc272_25_11_v4308_boinc__45__s__64.31_59.32__14_16__5__37.5_1_sixvf_boinc96944_1_0
2011-09-16 09:26:18 | LHC@home 1.0 | Finished upload of wbnlaug10_lhc272_25_11_v4308_boinc__45__s__64.31_59.32__14_16__5__37.5_1_sixvf_boinc96944_1_0
7) Message boards : Number crunching : No start tag! (Message 23032)
Posted 15 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
You need to detach from the project and attach again.


It works - thanks!

2011-09-15 16:18:47 |  | Fetching configuration file from http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/get_project_config.php
2011-09-15 16:19:07 | LHC@home 1.0 | Master file download succeeded
2011-09-15 16:19:12 | LHC@home 1.0 | Sending scheduler request: Project initialization.
2011-09-15 16:19:12 | LHC@home 1.0 | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
2011-09-15 16:19:13 | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
2011-09-15 16:19:13 | LHC@home 1.0 | General prefs: from LHC@home 1.0 (last modified 03-Sep-2011 14:45:09)
8) Message boards : Number crunching : No start tag! (Message 23024)
Posted 15 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
Project status page link shows that all is up and running, and there is about 21k WUs ready to send, but I've got the same problem:

2011-09-15 12:04:04 | LHC@home 1.0 | Requesting new tasks for CPU
2011-09-15 12:04:07 | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2011-09-15 12:04:07 | LHC@home 1.0 | Error in request message: no start tag
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Just reporting some good news :-) (Message 22967)
Posted 8 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
For now it looks like it is working good, even 3-4 times invalid WUs (from yesterday) are now valid and give points :)
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Status of LHC@home (Message 22963)
Posted 8 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
All day long I get this message:

2011-09-08 20:29:59 | LHC@home 1.0 | Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA GPU
2011-09-08 20:30:01 | LHC@home 1.0 | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
2011-09-08 20:30:01 | LHC@home 1.0 | Project is temporarily shut down for maintenance


When the server will be ready again?
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Correct project URL? (Message 22960)
Posted 8 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
just:
http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack
12) Message boards : Number crunching : A lot of mismatching results! (Message 22944)
Posted 7 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
I think I noticed something important:
All my WU that got the status valid, are calculated on another PC with the same operating system as mine (winXP)
All my WU that got status inconclusive, are calculated on another PC with a different operating system than mine.

Is it important information?
13) Message boards : Number crunching : ? (Message 22943)
Posted 7 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
I tried to fix this problem. Can you report what you see now?

Thanks.


Here you are:


Maximum daily WU quota per CPU	20/day
14) Message boards : Number crunching : A lot of mismatching results! (Message 22939)
Posted 7 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
12xWU finished (on winXP32bit app530.08) 8xWU got status:
Completed, validation inconclusive

it doesn't look too good... http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/results.php?userid=79108
15) Message boards : Number crunching : ? (Message 22927)
Posted 7 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
Something changed :)
Maximum daily WU quota per CPU	10/day

But still no WU :(
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Strange Short WU (Message 22892)
Posted 5 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
Recently my PC counted several WU (with typical remaining time), but the validator did something like this:

    21336 2953 4 Sep 2011 14:10:19 UTC 4 Sep 2011 14:26:11 UTC Completed and validated 4.42 3.38 0.02 0.01 SixTrack v530.03


    22153 3327 5 Sep 2011 4:02:49 UTC 5 Sep 2011 5:27:25 UTC Completed and validated 4.39 3.25 0.02 0.02 SixTrack v530.03



Is there any explanation or is it just an accident?

17) Message boards : Number crunching : Just reporting some good news :-) (Message 22890)
Posted 5 Sep 2011 by Profile Nawiedzony
Post:
21241 	6782 	4 Sep 2011 10:27:44 UTC 	4 Sep 2011 11:17:58 UTC 	Completed and validated 	1,878.34 	1,631.67 	8.83 	7.43 	SixTrack v530.03 

18646 	3510 	3 Sep 2011 11:29:35 UTC 	3 Sep 2011 12:11:27 UTC 	Completed and validated 	1,759.20 	1,625.11 	8.81 	7.86 	SixTrack v530.03 


But most of my WU's have got status:
Validate error
:(



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