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Windows :
Result for computer table is not updated
(Message 14176)
Posted 24 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: Many of the report pages are cached to improve performance. Take a look again tomorrow. If it remains incorrect report it in the number crunching forum where hopefully Chrulle will see it. |
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Windows :
Team Name
(Message 14165)
Posted 24 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: It's happened to everyone - there's a problem with the database that CERN are aware of. All this has been mentioned in the message boards - look there for an update |
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Getting started :
My Team Disappeared!!!
(Message 14157)
Posted 24 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: It has become apparent that there's some sort of database problem causing this. CERN are aware that there are difficulties, but I haven't seen any sign of a solution yet. |
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Number crunching :
LHC@home/CERN. Where Is Our Support!
(Message 14145)
Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: ...I am extremely concerned regarding the lack of support for this project from within the CERN organisation... I contacted Ben Segal this morning about the database problems. He's the LHC@Home project manager. He responded within an hour, but he's now waiting for one of the techies to get on to it. On the plus side, CERN know about the problems. On the minus side, they have no dedicated resource to fix them. Sorry... |
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Preferences :
Cannot merge hosts
(Message 14136)
Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: There's a problem with the database. The CERN people are aware of it, but it might take them a few hours to sort it out. Try again next week. |
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Number crunching :
Pending credit not being validated!
(Message 14130)
Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: At first this looked like a new occurrence of the infamous file_deleter bug, but with other problems surfacing it seems that there more to it than that. I just got a reply to my note to Ben Segal - he's getting someone to check the database, so with luck these problems will be ironed out in a few hours. |
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Number crunching :
Where all the Teams Go? :(
(Message 14129)
Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: I just got a reply to my note to Ben Segal - he's getting someone to check the database, so with luck these problems will be ironed out in a few hours. |
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Number crunching :
Pending credit not being validated!
(Message 14127)
Posted 23 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: At first this looked like a new occurrence of the infamous file_deleter bug, but with other problems surfacing it seems that there more to it than that. It looks like there's a fairly serious database corruption. I hope someone notices... [edit]I've sent a note to Ben Segal, who's the overall project manager.[/edit] |
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Preferences :
may I switch the screensaver off?
(Message 14116)
Posted 22 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: Right click on the desktop, click properties, then screen saver. Select any non-BOINC screen saver of your choice. |
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Cafe LHC :
Anyone have some good song selections to share?
(Message 14107)
Posted 22 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: I say this because my heart tells me to. What for? |
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Cafe LHC :
Anyone have some good song selections to share?
(Message 14097)
Posted 21 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: Ernesto - sorry it took me so long to dig this out...... Is this a public domain mp3? If not it would be a shame to see LHC@home shutdown for carrying this sort of link. Best remove it before the copyright police find it. |
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Cafe LHC :
Physicist probe the fifth dimension
(Message 14083)
Posted 21 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: The last time someone did that, they looked at the floor, and saw that it was flat; looked at a field, and saw that it was flat, looked at a map of their region, and saw that it was flat, and then assumed the rest of the world was flat. Actually, physicists are doing it all the time. It's a basic tenet of cosmology that the same rules of physics hold everywhere. It's not clear to me how they can be so sure about this. For example, if there were some property of light that caused photons to lose energy over great distances then the whole red-shift method of estimating distances could be open to question. |
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Preferences :
Explaining LHC Screensaver
(Message 14038)
Posted 19 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: You are quite right - the screen saver has nothing much to do with the computing being done. It represents a number of particles moving under mutual attraction around a central point. There is no link to the particles in the Sixtrack model. The only data relating to the model being run is the count of the number of turns. That said, it is very pretty! |
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Number crunching :
Mac Intel anyone?
(Message 14027)
Posted 18 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: There is no version for any Mac available. The issue has been extensively explored in the message boards, but put simply to get the best from the Windows and Linux x86 systems (the most common) a compiler hass been chosen isn't available for the Mac environment. There is very little development or admin support available for LHC at present, so it's very unlikely that any Mac version (even for Intel Macs) will become available. |
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Number crunching :
Please sign BOINC-related petition
(Message 13877)
Posted 4 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: I wasn't suggesting that he host the pages, but rather that he provide a "universal BOINC portal" that read the project pages as they are (with the non-standard code (such as "<p>") and output them in his beloved XHTML. What on earth would be the point of this? As a participant I don't care if the pages are compliant with W3C, XHTML or ancient greek provided my browser renders them correctly. I'll continue to use the project web site rather than any 'portal', so pages that I see will remain as they are. I suspect most participants will do likewise. If Rytis wants to do this as a technical exercise for his own interest that's fine, but it'll serve no useful purpose. ...and that's really the point. Rytis wants to update the pages to adhere to some standard that he's nominated. David Anderson disagrees, and is continuing with the standard to which he's been working. Do I care? Not one bit. If we ever see a day when browsers will only render XHTML-compliant documents then the argument will be different, but no browser writer is going to produce such a beast when the vast majority of the web does not (and probably won't ever) comply with that standard. |
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Number crunching :
dual core chips and BOINC
(Message 13867)
Posted 3 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: Wait till the July release (hopefully) of the Intel 'Conroe' chipsets. They beat the pants off any other processor on the market. hehe - but if you wait until September AMD will have a new offering that's better yet. Of course, if you wait that long then it's not much longer until Intel release their next product upgrade in around February. If you've waited for that then it's worth waiting a bit longer because AMD have a really good processor scheduled for release in 2007Q2. But then again, just a few weeks later... It's probably best not to upgrade at all, since you'll always miss out on that upgrade just around the corner. ;-) FWIW I won't now be upgrading anything until Microsoft releases a proper requirements list for Vista. |
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Number crunching :
Please sign BOINC-related petition
(Message 13851)
Posted 3 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post:
The BOINC pages are project specific. That is, each project hosts its own pages based on the original BOINC template. Rytis couldn't host the pages for each project, and in any case, it wouldn't be appropriate. It still wouldn't address his desire for XHTML since the underlying templates wouldn't be XHTML-compliant anyway. This change would need to be done by David Anderson's team, if it needs to be done at all. |
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LHC@home Science :
LHC@Home Alpha?
(Message 13846)
Posted 3 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: LHC Alpha is a closed project used for testing new versions of application software, server code, etc. as SixTrack isn't undergoing significant development at present there shouldn't be much difference. There's no real work there either - and no - there are no plans to allow new members to jon at present |
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Number crunching :
New host id being created at each connect
(Message 13839)
Posted 2 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: Account managers do work I'm attached to several other projects and the account mangaer works correctly for them. So don't go blaming the inadequacies of LHC on the account managers. Oh and I think there is a brown spot forming on your nose in regard to this project! "Look not for the splinter in my eye, but the plank in your own" Have a good weekend, Steve :) |
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Number crunching :
New host id being created at each connect
(Message 13834)
Posted 2 Jun 2006 by Gaspode the UnDressed Post: The problem seems to relate to those people using account managers like BAM. Maybe one should stick with the manual way of doing things until the bugs are ironed out and all the projects are updated. And maybe the crunchers themselves should be more realistic. BOINC has had release after release of bug-ridden software - both server and client. It comes as no surprise that account managers don't work. With the ever increasing number of projects is it realistic to expect every project to update its servers immediately to introduce new features that it doesn't need and which don't work? And just to make matters worse we have this 'open-source' ideal, with any number of individuals of varying levels of competence producing optimised 'this' and high-performance 'that', and add-ons that work only when they feel like it. What BOINC needs is someone to take real control of quality assurance for client, server, and add-ons. Then we might see fewer of these problems, and less whining from the inconvenienced participants. I have great respect for Rom Walton and what he has achieved. The time has come to recognise the scale of the project and apply appropriate resources. If David Anderson isn't careful the whole edifice he has built will sink, maybe deservedly, into the swamp. ...and that's my rant for the week ;-) |
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