Will the application at its current state benefit from overclocking? Many people won't participate in the future, when their computer is handicapped by the VM. I want all my Gigahertz and StreamProcessors firing away like crazy. The science behind it is interesting but I want to get points! The project seems to be running at around 1600 GFlops. My GPU could do that alone!
@tjpld If you want to put everything to work but Test4Theory isn't using it all, try adding LHC@Home 1.0 / SixTrack, as well as whatever other BOINC projects you'd like. Not every processor is appropriate for every task (that's why you have both a CPU and a GPU, not just one or the other).
@tjpld Hi! Of course it will do, but be careful and do not burn your CPU ;), you know: do it at your own risk!! We do not ask volunteers to burn their machines!! but to help us with some CPU cycles. The project uses all the GHz that you tell VirtualBox to use or in other words, all the CPU % that you want (it is fully integrated with BOINC via your preferences home page).
@tjpld You are welcome! Well, some times the Virtual Machine does not get a new job for some minutes, but not too long. In any case, check your BOINC preferences, as you can set up how much percentage of your CPU can be used, allowing the VM to use one of your cores at full power!
@tjpld Can you check in the VM if it is running experiments? You can check that in the second terminal (check in lhcathome2.cern.ch the Debugging section).
@teleyinex Yes it is running the experiment and has sent the first result. Took my i7 2600K @ 4.2 Ghz 24 Hours and resulted in 756 credits. I know it's not about collecting credits at this point but credits are also a measure of how much calculation had to be done right? So it was actually not that much but took extremely long. Normally I get 30.000 a day at other projects but that's with GPU.
@tjpld This is project is a bit different from other BOINC projects, as each WU lasts 24 hours, and you will get only credit for those 24 hours with the new BOINC credit system. We have some issues with the credit (check the forums) and we hope to solve them during the next days. Thus, stay tuned!
This is great, but it would have been much more useful to get the whole thing multithreaded - I've got a 4 core HT machine that's only 12% used! Come on, let's stick it to Higgs...
@vpetroff77 Well, the short answer is not :) because the whole stack of required libraries and/or software is very big, complex and only runs on *nix OSes. Therefore, the solution that we chose was to use virtualization, as it help us to set up a real environment in your computer, with the required libraries, but without interfering with your host. If you have more questions, please visit the FAQ section of the project, as we have (more or less answers for all the typical questions).
@teleyinex I think what @vpetroff77 is trying to ask for is that either the VM uses more than one CPU, or that you can "launch" multiple VM's at the same time ( more resource consuming, but if that's the only option, some people with lots of RAM may be able to do it ) ...
@goro2030 OK, my bad :) We will support in the future multiple-cores (if possible) in the VM and if the experiments can benefit from it. About running several VMs at the same time: for the moment we only run one because we are testing everything and having two or more VMs could hog your computer resources (memory, CPU, etc.) In any case, we have these suggestion in mind for future versions.
@teleyinex WOW! I call this really-super-fast customer service sir! Thanks for the quick response! I assure great success for this project if everyone on it works with your dedication and enthusiasm! Keep us (Users)posted on the news!
@goro2030 Everyone in this project is trying to do their best! Thanks a lot for your compliments!!! As usual, if you have any ideas, comments, etc. to improve the project, do not hesitate, and share it with us in the forums!!!
@teleyinex Thanks for the information. From what I could see in the graphics, you'll have to create a manual that explains what the user will be seeing there :)
Will the application at its current state benefit from overclocking? Many people won't participate in the future, when their computer is handicapped by the VM. I want all my Gigahertz and StreamProcessors firing away like crazy. The science behind it is interesting but I want to get points! The project seems to be running at around 1600 GFlops. My GPU could do that alone!
tjpld 4 months ago
@tjpld If you want to put everything to work but Test4Theory isn't using it all, try adding LHC@Home 1.0 / SixTrack, as well as whatever other BOINC projects you'd like. Not every processor is appropriate for every task (that's why you have both a CPU and a GPU, not just one or the other).
AySz88 4 months ago
@tjpld Hi! Of course it will do, but be careful and do not burn your CPU ;), you know: do it at your own risk!! We do not ask volunteers to burn their machines!! but to help us with some CPU cycles. The project uses all the GHz that you tell VirtualBox to use or in other words, all the CPU % that you want (it is fully integrated with BOINC via your preferences home page).
teleyinex 4 months ago
@teleyinex Thanks. I was not sure if OC even makes a difference because it's not applying a constant high load on even one of my available Threads.
tjpld 4 months ago
@tjpld You are welcome! Well, some times the Virtual Machine does not get a new job for some minutes, but not too long. In any case, check your BOINC preferences, as you can set up how much percentage of your CPU can be used, allowing the VM to use one of your cores at full power!
teleyinex 4 months ago
@teleyinex I've done that after my invitation. Still my CPU seems a little bored.
tjpld 4 months ago
@tjpld Can you check in the VM if it is running experiments? You can check that in the second terminal (check in lhcathome2.cern.ch the Debugging section).
teleyinex 4 months ago
@teleyinex Yes it is running the experiment and has sent the first result. Took my i7 2600K @ 4.2 Ghz 24 Hours and resulted in 756 credits. I know it's not about collecting credits at this point but credits are also a measure of how much calculation had to be done right? So it was actually not that much but took extremely long. Normally I get 30.000 a day at other projects but that's with GPU.
tjpld 4 months ago
@tjpld This is project is a bit different from other BOINC projects, as each WU lasts 24 hours, and you will get only credit for those 24 hours with the new BOINC credit system. We have some issues with the credit (check the forums) and we hope to solve them during the next days. Thus, stay tuned!
teleyinex 4 months ago
hai
admirallightningbolt 4 months ago
How can i get invite-code?
asciipi 4 months ago
You have to visit the official web site lhcathome2.cern.ch
teleyinex 4 months ago
thanks :)
I didnt see reg form at once..
asciipi 4 months ago
guys, can anyone tell me, what this music is? sounds like a nice demo, and I would like to get my hands on it... good luck to the visualization!
robertpek 4 months ago
@robertpek Check the credits of the video and the description of the video for more details. The music is very good indeed ;)
teleyinex 4 months ago
This is great, but it would have been much more useful to get the whole thing multithreaded - I've got a 4 core HT machine that's only 12% used! Come on, let's stick it to Higgs...
vpetroff77 4 months ago
@vpetroff77 Well, the short answer is not :) because the whole stack of required libraries and/or software is very big, complex and only runs on *nix OSes. Therefore, the solution that we chose was to use virtualization, as it help us to set up a real environment in your computer, with the required libraries, but without interfering with your host. If you have more questions, please visit the FAQ section of the project, as we have (more or less answers for all the typical questions).
teleyinex 4 months ago
@teleyinex I think what @vpetroff77 is trying to ask for is that either the VM uses more than one CPU, or that you can "launch" multiple VM's at the same time ( more resource consuming, but if that's the only option, some people with lots of RAM may be able to do it ) ...
goro2030 4 months ago
@goro2030 OK, my bad :) We will support in the future multiple-cores (if possible) in the VM and if the experiments can benefit from it. About running several VMs at the same time: for the moment we only run one because we are testing everything and having two or more VMs could hog your computer resources (memory, CPU, etc.) In any case, we have these suggestion in mind for future versions.
teleyinex 4 months ago
@teleyinex WOW! I call this really-super-fast customer service sir! Thanks for the quick response! I assure great success for this project if everyone on it works with your dedication and enthusiasm! Keep us (Users)posted on the news!
goro2030 4 months ago
@goro2030 Everyone in this project is trying to do their best! Thanks a lot for your compliments!!! As usual, if you have any ideas, comments, etc. to improve the project, do not hesitate, and share it with us in the forums!!!
Cheers,
Daniel
teleyinex 4 months ago
Huzzah!
akzy 4 months ago
Fantastic.Cant wait to see it work.Thanks for the great Job!
HerrderHerrn 4 months ago
@HerrderHerrn You are welcome!!
teleyinex 4 months ago
WOW! how do I enable those?
goro2030 4 months ago
@goro2030 Hi! For the moment is in testing phase. We hope to release it soon!!
teleyinex 4 months ago
@teleyinex Thanks for the information. From what I could see in the graphics, you'll have to create a manual that explains what the user will be seeing there :)
goro2030 4 months ago
@goro2030 Thanks for the suggestion!! I have shared this idea with our colleagues today. We will have to explain everything for all the volunteers.
teleyinex 4 months ago
I was wondering if I'd ever get to see what my computer's crunching! Awesome!
AliveoutofSpite 4 months ago