Development for LHC@home

Boinc 8.2.4 is now including Docker.
With Docker nearly all Task finishing in 10 days for me.

In reply to maeax's message of 12 Jul 2025:

Boinc 8.2.4 is now including Docker

Windows only, for the moment.

In reply to [AF>Le_Pommier] Jerome_C2005's message of 12 Jul 2025:

It is epidemic



You can see the deadline is always 10 hours before the estimated end date !

They are all v7.61, unlike the huge one I mentioned above and that finally failed.

So what ? 7.61 tasks are more reliable and I can trust that they will end in time ?

Or I'd better cancel them always if they take like more than one day because "you never know if they will end", and then all this CPU crunch time will be lost forever in oblivion, systematically ?

Wonderful: the longest task failed after 7 days (before the deadline), the 2nd one succeeded, and the last one failed too after 2 days.

I actually realize I have 17 theory tasks that failed, 6 are docker tasks that fail almost immediately (see this other topic about it, it never works on Mac) and the 11 other are vbox tasks that fail after a significant running time.

Vs 258 valid tasks, so that's a 6% error rate, I don't know if this is "quite normal" or not.

4 long runners cancelled this morning by LHCdev with 5 & 6 days running on my mac.

https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3486727
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3486726
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3486738
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3486729

Adios.

5 long running tasks aborted on my host after on server side the status was changed to "no reaction". Feels like a waist. Some tasks were still showing progress in events processed in the runRivet.log file, others were just eating cpu-time. Is there a way to transform this long running tasks to useful information for the project?

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In reply to TeeVeeEss's message of 1 Nov 2025:

Is there a way to transform this long running tasks to useful information for the project?

+1

As I mentioned before I only run these with Windows Theory version 7.64 (vbox64_theory) and have many long runners and at times when I am busy and don't check they can be running and doing nothing and that is a waste of your computer time but you can get long ones that are running and all you have to is check the running logs to see it they are still running.

Takes about 15 seconds to look and if they are still running after a few days I let them run and have had them Valid over 10 days before but they usually end up finished between 2 and 9 days and you get plenty of credits for it too.

Had some over at production too but certain clowns deleted all the saved info I had.

In reply to Magic Quantum Mechanic's message of 25 Nov 2025:

As I mentioned before I only run these with Windows Theory version 7.64 (vbox64_theory) and have many long runners and at times when I am busy and don't check they can be running and doing nothing and that is a waste of your computer time but you can get long ones that are running and all you have to is check the running logs to see it they are still running.

If they introduced the checkpoints...

https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3616541

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