An off beat question

[n00b 0f l337]

Sorry for being a bit in the wrong section, however no section exists for this question, and I'm pretty sure its closest to WCG.
With the LHC coming online this month (and actually in a few days), I am interested in running the BOINC client with their SixTrack project, however I cannot seem to figure out the URL I guess to connect to this and begin helping out?

Anyone have any ideas?

[twilyth]

Don't know answer to your question, but inaugural run of LHC won't be until October 21st (http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/06/cern-unveil-lhc-october-21st).

[n00b 0f l337]

Test runs start the 9th I thought, however since SixTrack and LHC@Home is a long term project, I'd like to run it, and see if maybe it's worth all of our time to consider.

[twilyth]

Personally, I'm very interested in LHC too and it would certainly be exciting to be a part whatever discoveries they make. But the people who work on WCG for the most part feel committed to finding a cure for disease. WCG does have other unrelated projects like African climate change and Nutritious Rice plus some that are pure research like HPF2 (protein folding) but as a general rule it's projects like cancer, aids and muscular dystrophy that are the main attraction. If I didn't do work for WCG, I would probably do Rosetta or F@H. Every project has its own community and they're all unique. For drug discovery, WCG is the place to be and I don't think you'll get a lot of people - especially from the XS team - jumping ship to a project like LHC.

[n00b 0f l337]

Oh I'm not trying to steal people, I'm just trying to figure out how the hell I connect to this BOINC client! :)
Dave would kill me if I stole anyone! And he knows where I live!

[ShootStraight]

wOOt!!! Black hole on the 22nd!!! I always wanted to do that.

I sure hope we dont tear the space time continuum, or if we do, it yields us better Presidential candidates than the anal pores we have currently...Oh, and DP Nehalems.

If it is the end lets try to keep our Hardons in order...oops Hadrons. :D

-SS

[twilyth]

wOOt!!! Black hole on the 22nd!!! I always wanted to do that.

I sure hope we dont tear the space time continuum, or if we do, it yields us better Presidential candidates than the anal pores we have currently...Oh, and DP Nehalems.

If it is the end lets try to keep our Hardons in order...oops Hadrons. :D

-SS
:rofl: Oh that damned dyslexia kicking in. :cool:

I just hope the end is quick. I don't want to get stuck between dimensions or anything nasty like that. Although my grip on reality is tenuous enough that I probably wouldn't notice. :D

edit - speaking of dyslexia - is this supposed to be an off beat question or a beat off question?
Only kidding. I'll be here all week folks.

[[XC] riptide]

Hey Nol. I've moved it to the DC Vault section of the forum. I beleive a few guys might have already had a go at this project too! I've always had a big interest in what they do a CERN. I also form time to time run DPAD, which is actually a simulation DC project for an accelerator!!

[n00b 0f l337]

Thank you! I didnt realize DC was closer, my bad, I normaly don't do this stuff.
Thanks though! Hopefully someone hear can show me how to help out the LHC.

[loonym]

What happens when you install boinc and then attach it to LHC@home? Maybe this isn't what you want?

[n00b 0f l337]

It wants a URL for the project, I think thats all I need. LHC@Home does say they use Boinc.

[[XC] riptide]

It wants a URL for the project, I think thats all I need. LHC@Home does say they use Boinc.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=182675&highlight=LHC

:shrug:

Anyways... here it is http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/team_display.php?teamid=2304

Or more to the point the URL shoudl be this.... http://lhcathome.cern.ch/

NOL... as far as i can remember this message on the server front page says

"Server Status
Up, Out of work
190 workunits in progress
6 concurrent connections"

I think Out of work is the general theme so far. But hey! You can still just leave BOINC sitting in the background, and anything that comes along it'll pick up!

[n00b 0f l337]

Ah I saw no project sort of section here and didn't think to search, happens to the best of us, and as this example shows, the worst (hehe me)

[n00b 0f l337]

When I connect it says wrong URL, and then I get a message in Boinc, and I click it, and it says use http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lchathome/.
Good service :P

[n00b 0f l337]

And that says its not a Boinc client! Wonderous!

[loonym]

And that says its not a Boinc client! Wonderous!Ok, it worked for me without having to enter anything except an email and password. Install boinc version 6.2.14, attach to project LHC@home and the boinc client enters the url http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ automatically, then it prompts me for new or exsisting user, I select new enter email and pass and it takes me to a team selection page, I search XtremeSystems and bingo there's the team highlighted and another click to join. As far as available work I didn't go that far because I run WCG so I detached LHC@home after I tested all that. :D

edit: here's the log from boinc

8/8/2008 1:38:13 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/get_project_config.php
8/8/2008 1:38:44 PM|lhcathome|Master file download succeeded
8/8/2008 1:38:49 PM|lhcathome|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. Requesting 1 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
8/8/2008 1:38:54 PM|lhcathome|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
8/8/2008 1:45:45 PM|lhcathome|Resetting project
8/8/2008 1:45:45 PM|lhcathome|Detaching from project

[[XC] riptide]

You guys do know theres an XS team? Ya? I wouldn't want anyone straying onto another team By accident. :) We're in the 60th-70th range.