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P2P University challenge
Dear all,

As a joint effort of the Test4Theory team and the P2P University, we are glad to announce that we have created the first challenge to help people to become a volunteer in scientific projects thanks to BOINC.

The challenge has three tasks, and gives the opportunity to everyone to learn how you can from your home be part of the scientific community, joining different projects and solving easy tasks (installing BOINC, posting your first credits, etc.)

This first challenge will help other people to join any BOINC project. The next step will be the creation of a specific challenge to join Test4Theory, as this research project is a bit more complicated due to we need to install VirtualBox.

If you want to help us in getting more people involved in this project, as well as in the BOINC community, don't hesitate and join the P2P Test4Theory study group, and help us creating new challenges, mentoring new users, etc.

As usual any comments and feedback are welcome!

Best regards,

The team!

21 Feb 2012 | 15:47:18 UTC · Comment

CernVM Wrapper 7.07 is out!!
Dear all,

Today we have released a new version of the wrapper, that restores the previous 7.05 version behavior for pausing/saving the VM.

This new release does not abort the VM after 10 failed tries to suspend or save the VM. The previous 7.05 behavior has been restored, but the log file will be populated with 7.06 messages.

If you were suffering errors from the previous wrapper, you should get the new one asking for a new WU.

Best regards,

The team

21 Feb 2012 | 10:41:02 UTC · Comment

The 2nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit: Feb 16 - 18, 2012
Dear all,

We are happy to announce that this week the project Test4Theory will be present in the 2nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London.

Dr. Ben Segal will be presenting the project and the status in a panel session about volunteer computing this Friday afternoon (check the details of the program!)

And on Saturday there will be a hackday around citizen cyberscience, with one special challenge for LHC@Home. As many of you know, we have created a study group in the P2P University, and we will be inviting people from the summit to join us to create some courses/challenges for this study group.

The first courses/challenges could be about how a person can join a BOINC project, with special focus for LHC@Home (Sixtrack and Test4Theory), the requirements, how you can check the results, etc. If you are in London and want to participate, just register (there are only 36 tickets left!) and join us to create some courses/challenges for LHC@Home study group.

Best regards,

The team!

UPDATE You can watch online the talks, check this broadcast tomorrow morning!.

13 Feb 2012 | 12:52:22 UTC · Comment

New wrapper bug fix released
Dear all,

We are happy to announce that thanks to your reports and feedback, you discovered a bug in the wrapper, and now has been fixed.

The bug was causing that some VMs were not paused or saved even though the command was issued.

The new bug fix released today should solve this problem, as it will check for 10 times if the VM is paused or saved before moving to the next step. If after 10 times it has not been possible to pause or save the VM, the WU will be aborted, as for some reason the VM is not responding.

You will get the new wrapper version when your computer finishes your current WU.

Best regards,

The team!

13 Feb 2012 | 12:38:33 UTC · Comment

Disruptions caused by weather
Dear all,

Yesterday and today we have had some power cuts at CERN caused in most cases by the bad weather that we are having these days.

The systems are back and running again normally, however, we may suffer again some disruptions due to the weather.

Just look at these photos from two days ago! (Thanks to the Flickr community)




Check the full album!! The photos are impressive!

Best Regards,

The Team!

10 Feb 2012 | 13:23:51 UTC · Comment

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