LHC@home: Test4Theory

The server migration is done, and the project is now running on the latest BOINC server software. If you should run into problems, we recommend to detach and re-attach to the project. Thanks for your collaboration and happy crunching! The team.

Please note that a server migration is on going and that it will take some time before the service is restored. Thanks for your contributions to LHC@home! The team

There will be a server interruption for the Test4Theory project this afternoon from 1PM UTC, due to a migration of the BOINC server. The BOINC server and message boards will not be available during this operation. As the copying of files take a long time, we do not expect the server to be up before 20pm UTC or later. All jobs under the VMs should continue running like usual. Thanks for your understanding and thanks again for contributing to LHC@home! The team.

In order to update the server software, there will be a short interruption today. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your contributions. The team.

We now recommend volunteers to upgrade to the latest version of VirtualBox (4.2.8). (The bug introduced in version 4.2.6, affecting Beta testers using the new wrapper, is fixed in 4.2.8). The team

The CERN servers have now been successfully restarted and all VM's should resume job processing automatically. No user intervention is needed. Thanks for your patience, The team

Since about noon on Saturday (Geneva time) there have been problems with the CERN central servers which can prevent T4T virtual machines from getting and returning jobs. These are being caused by power supply interventions at CERN over the weekend so please be patient! Thanks to all our volunteers, The T4T team

The MCPlots server is running again since some hours and the jobs backlog is being slowly cleared up. It is not yet clear whether a likely hardware problem has been corrected so the problem may recur. Stay tuned, The team

The CERN server mcplots-dev has been down since yesterday (Feb. 16th) with a hardware problem. We will try and fix this as soon as possible starting tomorrow. This machine distributes to volunteer VMs all the jobs from the T4T scientists and handles their outputs. While it is down, jobs currently executing in volunteer VMs will run to completion but the VMs will then wait to upload their results and get new jobs. BOINC credit will continue to be earned but no MCPlots credit or statistics will be available. We will update this news item when the problem is fixed. Thanks for your patience! The team

Dear all, The next 4th of February we will be performing some maintenance tasks in the servers from 10:00 UTC+1 to 12:00 UTC+1. Sorry for the inconveniences. Best regards, The team

Dear all, Some volunteers are experiencing some problems with the latest published version by Oracle, so we recommend to not upgrade. If you have upgraded your VBox installation, please, share your experience in this thread. If you are experiencing problems with this version, you can downgrade it by going to this page and looking for your OS version. Best regards, The team

Dear all, As you already know we have a Code of Conduct for the project that should serve as a guide for interacting with each other respectfully, and pursuing a good environment for enjoining, sharing ideas, comments and working together in this project. We know that the project is not perfect, and that it will not fit to everyone, so sometimes frustration comes in because the project is not working as you are expecting. When you don't like something, you should complain to us by e-mail, PM or using the forums, but you should complain to us in a respectful way. Insulting, trolling, flamewars or personal attacks in any form to any member of the project will cause to not get any feedback at all from any of the project staff members until you respect the Code of Conduct again. Therefore, from now on, we encourage every member of the project to ignore any comments from any other member that does not respect the Code of Conduct. Best regards, The team

Dear all, We are really happy to announce that the Firefox extension for checking your MCPLOT stats of the project on the go has gotten the full approval by Mozilla and it is now fully available in the addons web site. You can install it by going to the extension web page, and clicking in the install button. The extension does not require to re-start your browser, so installing it should be really easy. As usual, comments and feedback are welcome! Best regards, The team!