Posts by jay

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1) Message boards : Xtrack/SixTrack : Xtrack (Xboinc) Message 52517 Posted 12 Oct 2025 by jay	Thank you for your response! --edit-- The 'test' was the trick!! I just downloaded 7 WU. YAY! -- end edit-- I had not checked "test" . I just changed project preferences and enabled 'test' my Boinc Logs says: Sun 12 Oct 2025 07:17:06 PM EDT \| LHC@home \| Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks Sun 12 Oct 2025 07:17:06 PM EDT \| LHC@home \| No tasks sent Sun 12 Oct 2025 07:17:06 PM EDT \| LHC@home \| No tasks are available for XTrack Sun 12 Oct 2025 07:17:06 PM EDT \| LHC@home \| Tasks for AMD/ATI GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them i wrote a shell script to update LHC every 4 to 6 minutes. Will keep you posted on the outcome. A question for you: are you using a 'standard' BOINC -LHC install? FYI, I am running Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:10 PM EDT \| \| Starting BOINC client version 7.24.1 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:10 PM EDT \| \| log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:10 PM EDT \| \| Libraries: libcurl/8.5.0 OpenSSL/3.0.13 zlib/1.3 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.5 libidn2/2.3.7 libpsl/0.21.2 (+libidn2/2.3.7) libssh/0.10.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.59.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.6.7 Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:10 PM EDT \| \| Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:11 PM EDT \| \| No usable GPUs found Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:11 PM EDT \| \| libc: version 2.39 Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:11 PM EDT \| \| Host name: pc-17 Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:11 PM EDT \| \| Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8665U CPU @ 1.90GHz [Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 12] Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:11 PM EDT \| \| Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust sgx bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp vnmi md_clear flush_l1d arch_capabilities Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:11 PM EDT \| \| OS: Linux Linuxmint: Linux Mint 22.2 [6.14.0-33-generic\|libc 2.39] Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:11 PM EDT \| \| Memory: 31.00 GB physical, 19.53 GB virtual Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:11 PM EDT \| \| Disk: 191.19 GB total, 179.66 GB free Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:11 PM EDT \| \| Local time is UTC -4 hours Sun 12 Oct 2025 05:33:11 PM EDT \| \| VirtualBox version: 7.0.16_Ubuntur162802 T H A N K S !! Jay
2) Message boards : Xtrack/SixTrack : Xtrack (Xboinc) Message 52514 Posted 12 Oct 2025 by jay	Greetings! Please let me know how/when you were able to download xtrack WU? I have been trying for days with no luck. Thanks in advance, Jay
3) Message boards : ATLAS application : Ubuntu 20.04 support? Message 52425 Posted 1 Oct 2025 by jay	Greetings!! I am a newbie and was ecstatic when I got 2 WUs to run to completion last night. ( Yes, there were some failed attempts while setting up. ) At this time, I am only running on a laptop, but, want to move to a larger, faster machine once I get the heatsink installed. I'm using Linux Mint 22.2, BOINC client version 7.24.1, with 32GB of memory, set LHC profile to use 4 of 8 cores, and /etc/cvmfs/default.local reads: CVMFS_REPOSITORIES=atlas.cern.ch,atlas-condb.cern.ch,grid.cern.ch CVMFS_CLIENT_PROFILE=single CVMFS_HTTP_PROXY=DIRECT CVMFS_USE_CDN=yes I copied the CDN=yes from https://cvmfs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cpt-quickstart.html . I read your post: https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=5630&postid=44804, I would like some help understanding openhtc.io and cloudflare. Are they optional? Already built-in by the set-up? And , when I add a two more local PCs, I wonder if I need to set up - like a cloudflare account. THANK YOU in Advance, Jay Eichelberger ( a very small volunteer.) .
4) Message boards : Xtrack/SixTrack : Xtrack (Xboinc) Message 52380 Posted 29 Sep 2025 by jay	Greetings!! with an old laptop (1.9 GHz Intel), I got my first Xtrack WU , (Yay) So far, 3 have completed A) 2 hours 18 minutes B) 2 hours 54 minutes and C) 2 hours 54 minutes and a bit. These times are faster than the estimated 15 hour remaining time.time. 5 other WU are still processing and 1 has not started yet. So, I am content. jay
5) Message boards : Xtrack/SixTrack : Tasks available / tasks not available Message 50275 Posted 29 May 2024 by jay	Hi there! Haven't seen any wu for quite a while. Thanks, Jay
6) Message boards : Xtrack/SixTrack : Tasks available / tasks not available Message 49903 Posted 6 Apr 2024 by jay	Greetings, @ https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_user.php?userid=5472 in response to: https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=4278&postid=47150 I agree. Denis@Home use such a scheme to improve effective WU crunching. (They also have periods of no WU to crunch.) Jay
7) Message boards : Xtrack/SixTrack : Tasks available / tasks not available Message 49337 Posted 1 Feb 2024 by jay	Greetings! Just an update... (2024-Feb-01) I have not seen sixtrack nor sixtracktest WU for several weeks. Other than that, both Universeathome and DENISathome say that they will not be generating WU for an indefinite time.
8) Message boards : Xtrack/SixTrack : does sixtrack or sixtracktest require VBOX? Message 46579 Posted 5 Apr 2022 by jay	worked it out. VBox not required for sixtrack.
9) Message boards : Xtrack/SixTrack : does sixtrack or sixtracktest require VBOX? Message 46388 Posted 28 Feb 2022 by jay	Greetings. I can not find a requirement webpage for the LHC requirements. I did - set BIOS VM setting - reinstall BOINC with VBOX - successfully run an Atlas WU. But since I could not find out what the wu did, I cancelled - and restarted. This time, I will try sixtrack - without VBOX. But I see: Mon 28 Feb 2022 01:03:25 PM EST \| LHC@home \| Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Mon 28 Feb 2022 01:03:25 PM EST \| LHC@home \| Requesting new tasks for CPU and AMD/ATI GPU Mon 28 Feb 2022 01:03:26 PM EST \| LHC@home \| Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks Mon 28 Feb 2022 01:03:26 PM EST \| LHC@home \| No tasks sent Mon 28 Feb 2022 01:03:26 PM EST \| LHC@home \| No tasks are available for SixTrack Mon 28 Feb 2022 01:03:26 PM EST \| LHC@home \| No tasks are available for sixtracktest Mon 28 Feb 2022 01:03:26 PM EST \| LHC@home \| Message from server: VirtualBox is not installed So, is VBOX really required for sixtrack WUs? Thanks, Jay
10) Message boards : Number crunching : can't open server log file Message 26870 Posted 11 Oct 2014 by jay	Hi, The problem is at CERN - and is/was reported under the "news" board. http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/forum_thread.php?id=3882 Have a great day..... Jay
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Tasks exceeding disk limit Message 26773 Posted 3 Oct 2014 by jay	Another weird thing.... I looked at the co-pilots of the WU that went - over-limit for me. of the 30, I only saw one wu that was sent to a client that did not fail. http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=21177447 I wonder why it didn't have the problem.. Jay
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Tasks exceeding disk limit Message 26772 Posted 3 Oct 2014 by jay	Greetings, Also getting a task result of "Maximum disk usage exceeded". Is there a patch we can make to allow more disk space? Or, is this embedded in the task code?? I'm getting these around 15 to 20 minutes into the tasks. Thanks, Jay -- edit-- PS The disk limit does not seem to be related to the BOINC disk resource limit that the user sets up. ( I have >70 GB allocated for BOINC, only 1.7 used. Atlas had used up a large pre-allocated disk space...)
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Status 10th May, Version 451.07 Message 26428 Posted 12 May 2014 by jay	Greetings!! The server status [edit] says there is work. But can't get any - linux or windows a request goes out, the reponse comes back "no tasks sent". I turned on logging and got: Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:32 AM EDT LHC@home 1.0 update requested by user Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:35 AM EDT LHC@home 1.0 Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:35 AM EDT LHC@home 1.0 Requesting new tasks Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:35 AM EDT [http_debug] HTTP_OP::init_post(): http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack_cgi/cgi Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:35 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: About to connect() to lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch port 80 (#0) Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:35 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Trying 128.142.138.22... Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Connected to lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch (128.142.138.22) port 80 (#0) Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: POST /sixtrack_cgi/cgi HTTP/1.1 Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (i686-pc-linux-gnu 6.10.58) Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Host: lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept: / Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Content-Length: 11807 Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Expect: 100-continue Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Sent header to server: Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 100 Continue Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 14:02:36 GMT Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Server: Apache Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Connection: close Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Transfer-Encoding: chunked Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Content-Type: text/xml Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Received header from server: Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Expire cleared Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT [http_debug] [ID#1] Info: Closing connection #0 Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT LHC@home 1.0 Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks Mon 12 May 2014 10:02:36 AM EDT LHC@home 1.0 Message from server: No tasks sent Thanks, Jay
14) Message boards : News : WU Submission SUSPENDED 19th April, 2014 Message 26389 Posted 1 May 2014 by jay	Greetings!! About the same here. 32 and 64 bit Linux both finish Test WU in about 1 second (inconclusive) 64 bit Vista runs to completion. (about 1,200 seconds) 32 bit XP, well, still In progress.. (Assume about 3,000 seconds) I stopped getting tasks on Linux for a while. Hope results are productive. :) Jay
15) Message boards : Number crunching : waiting pending validation. Message 26306 Posted 22 Mar 2014 by jay	I found some WU waiting on Pending validation. There are two tasks assigned - but both completed on the 19March2014. Is this a hiccup, Or did the results not match? I found a couple similar WU. Here is one: http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=15523419 Thanks in advance!! Jay :::edit::: Here are more examples from my WU-Pending (userid=81571) http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=15523420 http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=15523422 http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=15523426 http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=15523428 Perhaps these are where the Linux and Windows results differ slightly?? T H A N K S Jay ::: end edit :::
16) Message boards : Number crunching : 1.6 GHZ takes over 160,000 seconds. Possible to get LHCatH preference for short WU?? Message 26251 Posted 9 Mar 2014 by jay	Thank you both! I don't mind running the longer WU, but on this (slower) PC there is a danger of timing out - especially if I have to shut down while travelling.. Again, thank you for your responses.... Jay
17) Message boards : Number crunching : 1.6 GHZ takes over 160,000 seconds. Possible to get LHCatH preference for short WU?? Message 26247 Posted 8 Mar 2014 by jay	Greetings This wu took over 163,000 seconds. http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=13914849 Yes, it a slower pc - but should it take nearly 5 times as long as a cpu that is twice as fast? Is the floating processors that slower? 24-Jan-2014 08:22:41 [---] Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz [Family 6 Model 28 Stepping 2] 24-Jan-2014 08:22:41 [---] Processor features: fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 ap ic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm 24-Jan-2014 08:22:41 [---] OS: Linux: 3.2.0-4-686-pae 24-Jan-2014 08:22:41 [---] Memory: 493.15 MB physical, 953.00 MB virtual 24-Jan-2014 08:22:41 [---] Disk: 4.58 GB total, 531.53 MB free yes, it has little memory - but I monitored swapping and there was none going on. It is an HP mini with an ssd drive - there was sufficient drive space as well. All this said. The other client finished in 32,950. so the WU should be OK. I have processed other WU on this PC http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/results.php?hostid=10310501 - anther wu took 166,684.99 seconds - over 46 hours. Main question: Could an LHCatHome preference be made to avoid long WU?? Thank you all... Jay edit - yes, the '6' in the wu name means it takes lots of loops. But can I avoid these? - end_edit
18) Message boards : Number crunching : 13 jan 2014 -- Error while computing Message 26119 Posted 13 Jan 2014 by jay	Greetings. Heads up. A batch of WU came out that get "error while computing"... Here is a sample of results on a wu http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=11562343 appears to include wu 11562334 through 11562353 (at least) I'll hold off for a while to see if other platforms get the same error. Or, should I ask for more and process out as errors? Have a great day, Jay
19) Message boards : Number crunching : News, Status and Plans, 19th November, 2013 Message 26081 Posted 21 Nov 2013 by jay	Hello Eric! First of all, thank you for the status report. It gave an in-depth sight of the trials and tribulations of the lhc@home effort. Coming out with exact floating point results on different platforms is amazing. [begin slightly-off-topic] I share your concern about getting quick results back to the physicists. I'm running beta Seti@home and they have a deadline for GPU of about 6 weeks. IMHOP, this is a waste of database resources that follow getting the results from different clients to validate. I applaud lhc@home use of a shorter deadline. I would suggest an even shorter deadline, but doing that can put a limit on the performance of the volunteer's machine. [/begin slightly-off-topic] About the disk space. Is starting a pay-pal donation account within reason? Or is showing due diligence too mind-boggling difficult? Thanks again for the report.. Jay
20) Message boards : Number crunching : upload problem - zip? (31 Oct 2013) Message 26049 Posted 2 Nov 2013 by jay	Hi, I wrote the first message because all that showed up (that I could see) was the -161 error code during file transfer (which says the program crashed during upload). Apparently another round of tests were released. So far they are passing http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=10011467 through http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/workunit.php?wuid=10011484 so this is now, probably, a non-issue. Jay [edit improved message and increased range of ID of WU.]