1) Message boards : Cafe LHC : CMS: I'm (almost) back (Message 48833)
Posted 28 Oct 2023 by Profile Ben Segal
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Bravo Ivan, you’re a hero! I’m so glad to hear you are recovering so well after such a bad accident. Keep up the progress and keep us all posted.
2) Message boards : Cafe LHC : πŸπŸŽπ˜π—΅ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐒𝐧𝐠 (Message 48812)
Posted 25 Oct 2023 by Profile Ben Segal
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Here every day for 19 years.......not sure why.
I remember back in 2004 this seemed like it might last 5 years and then 10 years and then 15 years.......well by then how could I just stop?

So time for Year 20.......I know we have a few here still from back then but not here every day but glad they are still here too.

And even Ben Segal is still around once in a while.

.......𝓫π“ͺ𝓬𝓴 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓴

Yes, indeed I am!

Bravo Samson - and thanks to all our volunteers both young and old !!! Twenty years have passed like a charm…
3) Message boards : News : Theory application reaches 6 TRILLION events !! (Message 48683)
Posted 29 Sep 2023 by Profile Ben Segal
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Bravo to all Theory crunchers !!!
4) Message boards : Theory Application : Theory application reaches 6 TRILLION events !! (Message 48682)
Posted 29 Sep 2023 by Profile Ben Segal
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Bravo to all Theory crunchers !!!
5) Message boards : Theory Application : No Tasks (Message 47984)
Posted 8 Apr 2023 by Profile Ben Segal
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Theory tasks have run out and the job graphs are also stuck.

Fixed now, enjoy Easter!
6) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Status 2020 (Message 47501)
Posted 6 Nov 2022 by Profile Ben Segal
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2004 - more than 1.000 days earlier, respect!

Actually only Sixtrack was running in 2004. Magic referred to T4T in 2014, probably concerning another issue. T4T ran first in 2010 or 2011.

Greetings to all old timers, and everyone else too!

Ben
7) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Status 2020 (Message 47475)
Posted 3 Nov 2022 by Profile Ben Segal
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Year 19 just for you Eric McIntosh

Well done, and not just for Eric!

Ben
8) Message boards : Theory Application : No Tasks (Message 47347)
Posted 5 Oct 2022 by Profile Ben Segal
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Project-Server say no tasks for Theory.
any indication as to when tasks will be available again?

It's just been fixed - the problem was due to an error while upgrading a server at CERN.
9) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Upgrading ALICE: What’s in store for the next two years? (Message 45204)
Posted 15 Aug 2021 by Profile Ben Segal
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ALICE, unlike the other three big LHC experiments, has never used BOINC and I’m almost certain they won’t change their mind about that.
10) Message boards : News : Theory application reaches 5 TRILLION events !! (Message 44962)
Posted 18 May 2021 by Profile Ben Segal
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Better post this to the Theory board, not the general News topic, OK?
11) Message boards : News : Best wishes for 2021 (Message 44090)
Posted 12 Jan 2021 by Profile Ben Segal
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Healthy New Year, everyone (for Thursday, if you're so inclined)

Even after all this time, I still can't resist grabbing a few Sixtracks when I spot a new batch.
(Not a full return as there's still Covid work to be done at WCG)

Biennial Scout trip to Kandersteg, postponed from 2019 to 2020, has now been pushed back to July 2022 so plenty of time to plan a drop-in en route.

Sounds good for a CERN drop-in!!

Hope to see you then (or even before?).

All the very best,

Ben
(had my first Covid vaccine shot yesterday in preparation...)
12) Message boards : CMS Application : EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS (Message 43742)
Posted 29 Nov 2020 by Profile Ben Segal
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Recover fast Ivan. Take care!
13) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU advertised for LHC, but they don't do it? (Message 43645)
Posted 18 Nov 2020 by Profile Ben Segal
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Yes, very interesting but nothing to do with Sixtrack or LHC@home. This describes the LHCb online triggering system.

Interesting video about gpu and LHC
14) Message boards : Theory Application : No Tasks (Message 43579)
Posted 6 Nov 2020 by Profile Ben Segal
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The problem has just been fixed with the MCPlots server. In answer to an email, Anton replied: β€œ It is fixed now, thanks for the pointer!
The problem was a bug in a free disk space check which was added recently.”

Greetings to all, Ben
15) Message boards : CMS Application : EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS (Message 43425)
Posted 26 Sep 2020 by Profile Ben Segal
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Thanks for letting us out of our misery Ivan! Meax nearly got it with 48hex but I see the answer is 45hex.

Happy 69th !!!!
16) Message boards : CMS Application : EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS (Message 43414)
Posted 25 Sep 2020 by Profile Ben Segal
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Ah, perhaps you meant "flippable top to bottom", leaving only 88 and 101. So then you're either 61 or 74... But neither of those seems flippable to me - sigh!

So maybe you need to help me (us?) further...

Ciao, Ben
17) Message boards : CMS Application : EXIT_NO_SUB_TASKS (Message 43407)
Posted 25 Sep 2020 by Profile Ben Segal
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Are you 50, 61, 72 or 74?

Happy Birthday anyway!!
18) Message boards : Cafe LHC : What is the Billionaires club? (Message 42335)
Posted 29 Apr 2020 by Profile Ben Segal
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OK the link has been removed.

Thanks for the heads up.

The team.

That's what you get when scratching your head all the time: Hair loss ;)

It's a remnant from the time the Theory application was a standalone project: Test4Theory and VirtualLHC.
The domain www.citizencyberscience.net seems to be hacked or bought.


Then remove it from the menu immediately :-)

Ok ok you have more important things to do....
19) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Why the Big Bang Produced Something Rather Than Nothing (Message 42189)
Posted 16 Apr 2020 by Profile Ben Segal
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Nice! Thanks for posting that.

Ben
20) Message boards : News : Theory application reaches 5 TRILLION events !! (Message 42103)
Posted 9 Apr 2020 by Profile Ben Segal
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LHC@home's Theory application will tomorrow pass the milestone of 5 TRILLION simulated events. This project, under its earlier name "Test4Theory", began production in 2011 and was the first BOINC project anywhere to use Virtual Machine technology (based on CERN's CernVM system).

Over the coming weeks we plan to publish some more details about all this on the LHC@home and CERN websites. Our timetables have of course been affected by the Coronavirus disruptions, but we absolutely could not miss announcing and celebrating such a milestone as this.

The whole LHC@home team sends our sincerest thanks to all our volunteers for enabling this achievement !!


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