1) Message boards : General Discussion : Number of tasks limited by Max # CPUs (Message 8428)
Posted 5 hours ago by Crystal Pellet
Post:
This is a very old issue, but still present.

When I have set the number of tasks (Max # jobs) in my preference to e.g. 8, I only get a max of 2 tasks when Max # CPUs is set to one (1)
Requesting new tasks for e.g. Theory gives the server message: No tasks are available for Theory Simulation although enough tasks are available.

When Max # CPUs is set to 2 I get 4 tasks
When Max # CPUs is set to 3 I get 6 tasks
When Max # CPUs is set to 4 I get 8 tasks

There seems to be a wrong correlation in BOINC's server configuration.
2) Message boards : Theory Application : New version v6.00 (Message 8421)
Posted 9 hours ago by Crystal Pellet
Post:
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3324292


2024-04-26 11:58:24 (6916): Adding virtual disk drive to VM. (Theory_2024_04_26_dev.xml)
2024-04-26 11:58:33 (6916): Attempts: 5
2024-04-26 11:58:40 (6916): Error in check if parent hdd is registered.
Command:
VBoxManage -q showhdinfo "C:\ProgramData\BOINC/projects/lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev/Theory_2024_04_26_dev.xml" 
Output:
VBoxManage.exe: error: Could not get the storage format of the medium 'C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\lhcathomedev.cern.ch_lhcathome-dev\Theory_2024_04_26_dev.xml' (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium, callee IUnknown
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, enmAccessMode, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 201 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

2024-04-26 11:58:40 (6916): Could not create VM
2024-04-26 11:58:40 (6916): ERROR: VM failed to start
2024-04-26 11:58:40 (6916): Powering off VM.
2024-04-26 11:58:40 (6916): Deregistering VM. (boinc_3e4fc01cce596b2f, slot#0)
2024-04-26 11:58:40 (6916): Removing network bandwidth throttle group from VM.
2024-04-26 11:58:40 (6916): Removing VM from VirtualBox.
3) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS multi-core (Message 8414)
Posted 9 days ago by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Woo Hoo....ran my usual pair of 4-core and one was the typical one that just uses one core BUT the other that started at the same time was an actual 4-core. (as usual the credits are not much different)

https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3319894
Since your task stopped just after 18 hours wall time, it's very likely that the task ended due to exceeding the job duration time and
so it's just not sure whether the four inside jobs were ready and returned successful to CERN.
4) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS multi-core (Message 8406)
Posted 15 days ago by Crystal Pellet
Post:
4-core running as single core . . .
5) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS multi-core (Message 8371)
Posted 29 days ago by Crystal Pellet
Post:
The 2 tasks I requested this morning created 2 dual core VM's, but both are running 1 single core job.
6) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS multi-core (Message 8366)
Posted 27 Mar 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
I requested a dual core task. That task did 3 jobs within 4.5 hours, but now I don't get a new sub-job, so VM almost idling.
I'm not so sure any longer that the VM is not processing events.
No process cmsRun with up to 200% cpu or any other process with high CPU usage is shown in Console ALT-F3 (top),
but the total CPU used by the VM since beginning is ~184% (incl. init phase) and there is also data transfered.
At the start of the first three seen jobs at 27-mar-2024 05:38:10.10, 27-mar-2024 07:41:24.24 and 27-mar-2024 10:01:54.54
The last two jobs where I did not see a cmsRun data downloaded at 27-mar-2024 12:27:03.03 and 27-mar-2024 15:03:15.15
7) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS multi-core (Message 8365)
Posted 27 Mar 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
After I tested the 4-core VM (not really a success with doing 4 cms jobs in almost 18 hours),
I requested a dual core task. That task did 3 jobs within 4.5 hours, but now I don't get a new sub-job, so VM almost idling.
8) Message boards : News : Multi-core jobs available for CMS@Home-dev (Message 8359)
Posted 26 Mar 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
This was luck ;-))
No luck for CMS, cause the running cms jobs did not return a result.
Your task was valid BOINC-wise, but a valid cms-job should end with: VM Completion Message: glidein exited with return value 0.
0 means no error. Your job ended by a shutdown given by vboxwrapper after 18 hours wall clock time.
9) Message boards : News : Multi-core jobs available for CMS@Home-dev (Message 8357)
Posted 26 Mar 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Crystal,
seeing the same: 4 cmsExternalGene... 153 minutes hours on 4-Cores!
Your task https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3311748 seems to be killed by the 18 hours deadline.

Your result ends with:
2024-03-26 16:45:34 (33976): Status Report: Elapsed Time: '60000.000000'
2024-03-26 16:45:34 (33976): Status Report: CPU Time: '216839.343750'
2024-03-26 18:05:37 (33976): Powering off VM.
2024-03-26 18:05:38 (33976): Successfully stopped VM.
2024-03-26 18:05:38 (33976): Deregistering VM. (boinc_9f8cb45e4f80768f, slot#27)
2024-03-26 18:05:38 (33976): Removing network bandwidth throttle group from VM.
2024-03-26 18:05:38 (33976): Removing VM from VirtualBox.

Mine with:
2024-03-26 13:06:15 (1020): Guest Log: [INFO] glidein exited with return value 0.
2024-03-26 13:06:15 (1020): Guest Log: [INFO] Shutting Down.
2024-03-26 13:06:15 (1020): VM Completion File Detected.
2024-03-26 13:06:15 (1020): VM Completion Message: glidein exited with return value 0.
.
2024-03-26 13:06:15 (1020): Powering off VM.
2024-03-26 13:06:16 (1020): Successfully stopped VM.
2024-03-26 13:06:16 (1020): Deregistering VM. (boinc_15fe7a25adba3060, slot#0)
2024-03-26 13:06:16 (1020): Removing network bandwidth throttle group from VM.
2024-03-26 13:06:16 (1020): Removing VM from VirtualBox.
10) Message boards : News : Multi-core jobs available for CMS@Home-dev (Message 8354)
Posted 26 Mar 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Still running after 13.5 hours the first 4 jobs:
...
...
On slow but a bit faster than this machine, it could happen, that the second 4 jobs are been killed by the 18 hours deadline.
Why not run 1 single job 4 times faster like you do with the dual core tasks. 1 cmsRun using 200% cpu and twice as fast.
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3311582



Just in time:

Run time 17 hours 32 min 57 sec
Only 4 concurrently running jobs.
11) Message boards : News : Multi-core jobs available for CMS@Home-dev (Message 8353)
Posted 26 Mar 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Still running after 13.5 hours the first 4 jobs:



On slow but a bit faster than this machine, it could happen, that the second 4 jobs are been killed by the 18 hours deadline.
Why not run 1 single job 4 times faster like you do with the dual core tasks. 1 cmsRun using 200% cpu and twice as fast.
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3311582
12) Message boards : News : Multi-core jobs available for CMS@Home-dev (Message 8351)
Posted 25 Mar 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
tripled
13) Message boards : News : Multi-core jobs available for CMS@Home-dev (Message 8350)
Posted 25 Mar 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
dupe
14) Message boards : News : Multi-core jobs available for CMS@Home-dev (Message 8349)
Posted 25 Mar 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
What is the process cmsExternalGene doing?
Now I see 4 of those processses on my 4-core VM using up to 100% cpu each.
Do they the event processing and if yes: Does it mean I'm processing 4 jobs concurrently.
That would not make much sense.
15) Message boards : CMS Application : CMS multi-core (Message 8344)
Posted 25 Mar 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
@ Magic Quantum Mechanic and tazzduke:

I suppose your both mentioned results are probably from before the dual-core CMS-batch was submitted later on the 24th of March.

When a 4- or 8-core VM is running these dual-core test-tasks, the CPU will be more than twice the runtime (wall-clock).

See: https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3310818 (Setting CPU Count for VM. (8)) and
within an hour:or so: https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3310951 (Setting CPU Count for VM. (2))
16) Message boards : CMS Application : New Version 60.70 (Message 8332)
Posted 14 Feb 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
BOINC setting for memory for a CMS-task is much too high.
From the server 8564768768 bytes of RAM (8168 MB) is allocated to a BOINC-task.
When you have 16GB of RAM, this too high setting will prevent to start a second CMS-task, cause BOINC will wait for memory.
The VM for CMS is set up with 2048 MB of RAM and a cmsRun is using about one third of this.
Could you please lower the rsc_memory_bound for CMS?
17) Message boards : Sixtrack Application : Your computer has finished... (Message 8323)
Posted 6 Feb 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
You may find the information here: https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/host_app_versions.php?hostid=5092

First details of your host and then the application details.

Normally your quota is upped with one every night and every time you add a valid result of that app to your list.
18) Message boards : ATLAS Application : ATLAS vbox and native 3.01 (Message 8320)
Posted 5 Feb 2024 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Although HITS files were successfully produced, these two tasks were validated as an error:
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3299484
https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/result.php?resultid=3300817
19) Message boards : Theory Application : All errors (Message 8267)
Posted 27 Dec 2023 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
It's a problem of internet connection during the restart??
It seems to be, cause: Probing /cvmfs/sft.cern.ch... Failed!
20) Message boards : Theory Application : All errors (Message 8265)
Posted 25 Dec 2023 by Crystal Pellet
Post:
Still all errors also with this new version
Still errors, but different reason.

See previous posts.


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