UK BOINC Team Forum

Posted: **Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:55 am**

Something wierd happened - not only everyone lost their credits on the stats pages but all the teams have gone. Probably just a tempory glitch but it explains why we lost 240,000 this morning!

Posted: **Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:19 pm**

I attached to LHC@home last week but after 3 days I still hadn't received a WU so I detached and I'll stick with the 6 BOINC projects I'm running at tne moment until the Collider is operational and there are enough WUs to go around.

Posted: **Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:26 pm**

As you can see from the stats pages, the project is very intermittent with the work http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=lhc

Posted: **Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:42 pm**

because it is a project i like i tend to stay connected and put it at a high score so that if any wus become available I have a good chance of getting some. Otherwise i just automatically crunch other projects (rosetta at the moment of course

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Posted: **Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:24 pm**

47,685 Wu's ready to send some test are been done on the WU's and hopefully will be released very soon

Posted: **Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:48 pm**

Just tried re-attaching in readiness - no go. It seems account creation is off as well - maybe because the servers are offline.

I wonder if 'OcUK - Overclockers UK' and 'GRIDPP' realise that it's coming back? We're No. 3 UK, 44 in World. Might we be able to sneak up on them?

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:03 am**

Ah! Nice to see it's back soon. Will up its share so I may get some WUs.

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:59 am**

I'm still waitin for them to finish the change-over and pass out new WU's

All I get is this ->

2006-09-20 00:51:28 [LHC@home] Sending scheduler request to http://lhcathome-sched1.cern.ch/scheduler/cgi
2006-09-20 00:51:28 [LHC@home] Reason: Requested by user
2006-09-20 00:51:28 [LHC@home] Requesting 43200 seconds of new work
2006-09-20 00:51:28 [---] Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
2006-09-20 00:51:29 [---] Access to reference site succeeded - project servers may be temporarily down.
2006-09-20 00:51:33 [LHC@home] Scheduler request failed: couldn't resolve host name
2006-09-20 00:51:33 [LHC@home] Deferring scheduler requests for 2 minutes and 25 seconds

looks like Boinc is accessing the right site though ?
http://lhcathome-sched1.cern.ch/scheduler/cgi

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:29 pm**

Got 1

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:24 pm**

I Got 8

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:34 pm**

Boo Hiss!

Not got one yet but not too bothered. Checking the forums it seems there are quite a few upload/download problems.

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:19 pm**

You broke it before I got chance to get any

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:37 pm**

Dazza wrote:You broke it before I got chance to get any

NO - It was broke before I got to it!

Much as I enjoy my reputation for breaking things, I can't take the credit for this one!

I blame Dave!

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:56 pm**

It was perfectly all right when I left.

you wait Mike. :roll:

Jimmy :angel8:

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:57 pm**

Works fine for me too I think it knew you was coming

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:55 pm**

Whooo Hoooo got 28 WU's :D but they won't upload when finished :evil:

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:04 pm**

Doh! same here, error on upload can't open file.

Read back on the thread to see who broke it.

Jimmy

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:27 pm**

I'm going to blame Dazza, just for the hell ov it, might cheer me up a bit

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:33 pm**

Tis said they'll fix the upload tomorrow. I've got a load on the office machine.

Is it just me showing my age, or are the WUs looking smaller this time round?

Posted: **Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:51 pm**

They look half the size to me, might be wrong though

Posted: **Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:26 am**

UBT - PiezPiedPy wrote:I'm going to blame Dazza, just for the hell ov it, might cheer me up a bit

OY!, I go nround fixing things not breaking them

Posted: **Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:49 pm**

Would be nice if they got the XML stats working again and I got credit for contributing...

Looks like we are close to taking the UK #2 spot.

Code: Select all

1. OcUK	2,052,414.96  	 450.00
2. GRIDPP	252,736.60    	68.64
3. UBT		249,097.73   	525.43

Posted: **Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:30 pm**

It will come just be patient probally still busy moving the servers to QML

Posted: **Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:09 am**

Hi all.
Here is a few observations i have made regarding LHC.

I know there is an issue with LHC and their XML export for the stats but -
Temujins site is showing the correct amount of credit for me or at least it matches what boinc manager is telling me.
See here http://ubt-seti.dyndns.org/ubt/SC.php

BOINCstats on the other hand is showing that there has been no credit for months now.
http://www.boincstats.com/stats/team_gr ... lhc&id=199

Also had the issue where i was getting assinged a new computer id everytime i tried for work, this i solved in the usual way, but after doing so my host total is showing 0.
Average credit is working fine though.

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:58 pm**

As of now, we are only 450 credits short of GridPP.

GridPP 253,074
UBT 252,624

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:06 pm**

Alan Pull wrote:As of now, we are only 450 credits short of GridPP.

GridPP 253,074
UBT 252,624

But by the time I saw that LHC had some WU's they had all gone

Hopefuly some other team members got some, so we can make up the deficit...!

regards

Tim

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:37 pm**

i managed to get hold of 24 on my rig at home and also managed to get a whole 4 on the 2 rather slow works pc's.
so that should help a little.

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:00 pm**

We've made it - now UK No2 in LHC - congratulations to all.

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:06 pm**

had no WU's for weeks now, site keeps sayin 'no work from project' grrrrrr
might clear the debts list thingy

Posted: **Sat Nov 25, 2006 7:18 am**

Bit of bad timimg for us but there's 66000 WU's available at the moment.

Posted: **Sat Nov 25, 2006 8:18 am**

Cool. Just got 26 of what are 2 hr work units for me.
Suspended all other projects to see if i may be able to catch a few more off these W/U later.
But my guess is they will be gone very soon.
In which case its back to WCG crunching.

Posted: **Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:25 am**

Just filled my cache with em, but i've put them on hold while I do WCG - About time I got some LHC

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:34 pm**

Hmmm... Got about a thousand credits worth on here but the stats aren't showing up on either the sigs or stats pages (but they are in BOINC Mgr).
Any suggestions?

Posted: **Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:30 pm**

Semmy wrote:Hmmm... Got about a thousand credits worth on here but the stats aren't showing up on either the sigs or stats pages (but they are in BOINC Mgr).
Any suggestions?

Just make sure that your username and email address are the same.

Also, sometimes it can be an issue with the project site's XML files that are exported - with LHC, they might not have updated their user list recently or the XML might be "out of date".

Edit - I just looked here:

http://www.boincsynergy.com/stats/teams ... roject=lhc

and the site says:

BOINC XML Data last updated: Tue 05 Sep 02:36:47 2006 GMT (84.50 days ago)

so, there you go.

regards

Tim

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2007 3:41 pm**

Should be migrating everything needed to run the project by next week

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2007 10:48 pm**

Got my finger on da trigger :twisted:

Posted: **Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:25 pm**

Anyone who's done anything for this and was waiting for the stats to import check out your account now!

http://www.boincstats.com/stats/user_st ... 0&ti=199#1

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:47 pm**

Yippee.
LHC has work.
All be it tests, but work non the less.
11mins each on my core2duo.

Posted: **Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:43 pm**

Bugga - Those WU's just sneeked by - Tha wot u get 4 playin games and not crunchin :evil:

Posted: **Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:29 pm**

The (new smartlooking) website says that there are some 20,000 WUs to crunch, but the server is saying "no work". Anyone got any ideas?

Posted: **Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:53 pm**

Seems the upload/download server is disabled so no ones getting any at the moment. Probably just needs a good kicking (or booting)!

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/server_status.php

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:02 am**

They best hurry up and get it fixed

I am have both mine ready and waiting for them.

My god i was tired when i wrote that.
Personal note to myself " go to bed, stop playing X3 and posting on here"

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:27 pm**

WUs are available. Just got a dozen. Grab 'em while they're hot!

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:52 pm**

Thanks for that, first time in months there were still some left when I got there, bagged 90 or so, looks like a 20 a day cpu limit.

Posted: **Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:42 pm**

From LHC website

"As you will have seen there were ~20,000 WUs up for grabs earlier today and they are now all gone. We hope everyone got some as they were around for a few hours, this is hopefully (but no guarantees) the start of similar batches appearing more regularly."

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:12 pm**

BOINC.BE got 290,672 credits in this and retook 30th place. Which is a bit of a bu**er as their RAC is very similar to ours.

How come they get so many credits in 1 day then?

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:19 pm**

It is credit from the Belgian MoOo Farm, they united some time ago but still have over a million credits to transfer if they can get the projects to do it.

Posted: **Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:38 pm**

Lots of work available now.

Posted: **Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:48 pm**

Ram Raider wrote:Lots of work available now.

Ah, great stuff....thanks for the heads up.

LHC has been one of my favoured project for ages....I just never got enough work though...

regards,

Tim

Posted: **Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:28 pm**

Looks like things are getting moving over there--From the LHC website

"LHC@home moved to the UK a few months ago, and despite a few initial teething problems, the scientists are very happy with the service being provided by us and by you. There will be more work coming from SixTrack in the near future and until the LHC starts up sometime in 2008. Indeed, even after it turns on there will be a demand to keep modeling its behavior and comparing with reality.

We have also been in talks with two different groups involved in the LHC experiments about porting their work to BOINC so it can be run under the LHC@home banner. One you may have heard about is Garfield which has been in the pipeline for a while but is now very close to running on LHC@home (the more eagle-eyed volunteers will have seen it is installed and on the Applications page). The other is simulating particle collisions for the ATLAS experiment, one of the four major LHC experiments. This is a good deal more ambitious, and will probably take a while before it is released to volunteers, but we are getting a lot of interest from the CPU-hungry physicists at ATLAS for this.

All of these factors combined mean that we have decided to officially launch LHC@home in the UK today in a press release. We hope that this brings in some new volunteers and that you welcome them to the community. I know there are some issues to be addressed on the server and Alex and I are working hard on this, but we are happy that the most important aspect of the project is working, namely that jobs are getting processed and the scientists are getting their science done. Thanks to many of you for helping us learn how to manage a volunteer computing experiment, and looking forward to fun times ahead!

Thanks for sticking around,
Neasan."

Posted: **Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:11 pm**

UBT-mark3346 wrote:Looks like things are getting moving over there--From the LHC website...."

A nice plug on the Register website today:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/17 ... to_london/

regards,

Tim

Posted: **Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:41 pm**

There are some LHC WUs available if anyone is interested.
Grab `em whilst you can. :D

Edit: According to the server, they`ve already gone! :(

Posted: **Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:19 pm**

More LHC WUs are downloading.

Posted: **Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:05 pm**

WOW
one or 2 new members for LHC today, I wonder why

Posted: **Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:51 pm**

Temujin wrote:WOW
one or 2 new members for LHC today, I wonder why

Pity there`s no WUs for them to crunch. :(

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:51 am**

I have LHC on my Boinc for a while now and no WU as yet, I removed it from my Boinc and tried to re-add it and it informed me that it could not connect to LHC.

Is there another way I can add it back on to Boinc?

cheers

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:35 am**

Syrix wrote:I have LHC on my Boinc for a while now and no WU as yet, I removed it from my Boinc and tried to re-add it and it informed me that it could not connect to LHC.

Is there another way I can add it back on to Boinc?

There has been no work for LHC@Home for months. There is now Test4Theory in it`s place, but you will need to download a "virtual box", and apply for an invitation code.

Details can be seen here.

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:10 am**

Righto many thanks!

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:02 pm**

There is LHC work but you will probably need to detach and reattach to the project

September 16, 2011, 22:30 GMT
Added Server Status link from this page
Detach and attach again if you have problems
September 15, 2011, 15:30 GMT
Please detach from the project and attach again to the project URL on this page if you get scheduler errors. By mistake, a reference to our old server had been cached on the Boinc client side, and therefore it may be necessary to re-initialise clients following a server move at CERN. Sorry for this glitch.
Long Live LHC!
September 2, 2011, 18:30 GMT
RESTART OF OPERATION @ CERN
Announcement
August 23, 2011, 11:50 GMT
Move the activity LHC@HOME to CERN

You need the address below to attach to the project (not the one that comes up in the list on Boinc Manager)

http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:13 pm**

Work available @ 12:00 26/09/2011

Tasks ready to send 39,316

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:12 am**

They seemed to have resolved the need to re-attach? I haven't done so and I suddenly got a handful of SixTrack WUs...

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:19 am**

There is work for LHC six track at the moment.