Recent Changes in projects

[StefanR5R]

Addendum: I tried one ARP1 task. Downloading the input files took two hours with countless retries, but I did not rely on BOINC's built-in retry periods... Executing the task took 21 h on my Haswell Xeon E3 (with all other CPU threads busy with concurrent work, mostly MilkyWay nbody). The seven result files were 94 MB big in total, but they uploaded within a quarter hour without a single interruption. (I had BOINC configured to only 1 transfer/project and 100 kB/s cap on upload speed, which this ARP1 upload fully used.) Either I was lucky and met an unusually quiet point in time at WCG for the upload, or WCG's HTTP troubles only affect downloads, not uploads. Or maybe all work of the current ARP1 batch had already been distributed to hosts and WCG's HTTP errors are over... until the next ARP1 batch.

 

[Orange Kid]

Universe@Home is ending...
My dear friends,

For over 10 years, I have taken care of the Universe@Home project.

Unfortunately, since the passing of Prof. Krzysztof Belczynski, we have not been able to find a way to continue the project. Therefore, as funding ended at the end of August this year, I am no longer formally associated with the project. Still hoping that a scientific team will be found to carry it forward, I have continued to handle the ongoing maintenance of the server, and I intend to keep doing so in my free time until either a successor to Krzysztof is found or CAMK decides to shut down the servers.

I truly regret that such a long history of our shared work is coming to an end. Unfortunately, I lack the scientific expertise needed to continue the research myself.

I would like to thank all of you for years of support and express my hope that we may someday meet again on another project that I could manage from the BOINC side.
11 Nov 2024, 15:52:47 UTC · Discuss

 

[Fardringle]

Notice posted on the Symmetric Prime Tuples (SPT) 'news' feed. The new project does not have any work yet, and as of this posting, fewer than 10 people have registered. Account creation is active, but team creation has not been enabled yet. Since it looks like this is a placeholder for a new project, it might be a while before there is any activity...

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New BOINC project
Corporal created and configured a server for a new project
http://boinc.mak.termit.me/test/

Gentlemen!
Who can try to launch the BOINC project?
The software is ready.
You will get access to the server.

Please write to me
natalimak1@yandex.ru
26 Nov 2024, 11:42:16 UTC · Discuss

 

[Skillz]

Another SPT project?

 

[mmonnin03]

Oh its the work she wanted everyone else to do outside of BOINC

Not a BOINC project

 

[Kiska]

Oh its the work she wanted everyone else to do outside of BOINC

Not a BOINC project

I think its that the person who was helping her is... slow?

As seen in her first post:

I have been waiting for Corporal to prepare a server for launching a new BOINC project for a very long time.

 

[mmonnin03]

In one place she says a new project. (above quote)
At ODLK1, she says a subject of SPT

https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/forum_thread.php?id=219

"The PROJECT MAK is a subproject of the BOINC project Symmetric Prime Tuples (SPT)"

Shes been involved in way too many projects. ODLK, ODLK1, SPT (which she wants shut down), Gerisum, T Brada when some of these should have just been apps of other projects.

 

[StefanR5R]

Shes been involved in way too many projects.

More specifically worded, she has fallen out with way too many project admins.

[...] some of these should have just been apps of other projects.

This would work if she could fire+hire admins (at the drop of a hat) *but* keep the server while doing so.

 

[StefanR5R]

Radioactive@Home
Not really a change because this project had phases like this before, but…

…on December 3, the server stopped sending new work. Somebody posted about it at the message board, to no avail.
About ten hours ago the server started to send work again. But the validator is not working. (The map does work.) Furthermore, the message board alternates between responding quickly and not responding responding extremely slowly. Likewise, the scheduler requests to send trickle-up messages alternate between success and failure to connect to the server.

 

[StefanR5R]

LHCathome-dev
added a Docker based version of Theory Simulation (already early in July March), as an alternative to the VirtualBox based application version. It's still a beta test.
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/apps.php

Forum threads:
Theory Application : Docker on Windows
Theory Application : Docker on Linux
Theory Application : Docker on Mac

LHC@home

LHC is notoriously difficult to get to run in Windows except for Sixtrack tasks, which are rarely (if ever) available.

They silently(?) removed the Sixtrack application from the server at some point in spring.

 

[cellarnoise]

ARM CPU projects are still kind of hurting?

 

[biodoc]

They silently(?) removed the Sixtrack application from the server at some point in spring.

They have a new application, Xtrack beam simulation, that does not require vbox or docker. It's linux only for now and they do release tasks from time to time. The last one I picked up completed successfully.

 

[StefanR5R]

They have a new application, Xtrack beam simulation, that does not require vbox or docker. It's linux only for now and they do release tasks from time to time.

Oh indeed. Though this application is still limited to LHCathome-dev, not yet promoted to LHC@home.

 

[biodoc]

Oh indeed. Though this application is still limited to LHCathome-dev, not yet promoted to LHC@home.

I forgot to mention that point. I did pick up one task recently and it was completed and validated. I assume the application is still in development (alpha or beta?).