5950x, 128gb ram.
Ill try adjusting the number of cores and see if that helps cheers.

On you Windows PC
Go to the VirtualBox site and download the Extension Pack that matches the version of VirtualBox you have.
Open the VBox Manager app
Click File, then Tools, then Extension Pack manager, then Install.
Navigate to where you saved the Extension Pack file and select it.

Do the same with the Linux PC.

Run time 5 hours 58 min 38 sec
CPU time 14 hours 40 min 18 sec
Validate state Valid
Credit 3.56

Run time 3 hours 9 min 48 sec
CPU time 5 hours 46 min 57 sec
Validate state Valid
Credit 1.88

Run time 5 hours 50 min 56 sec
CPU time 14 hours 38 min 39 sec
Validate state Valid
Credit 3.63

Excuse me, but what??

2024-04-27 07:53:28 (24260): Guest Log: [INFO] Probing /cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch... OK
2024-04-27 07:53:28 (24260): Guest Log: [INFO] Detected branch: prod
2024-04-27 07:55:39 (24260): Guest Log: [DEBUG] Failed to copy ATLASJobWrapper-prod.sh
2024-04-27 07:55:39 (24260): Guest Log: [DEBUG] VM early shutdown initiated due to previous errors.
2024-04-27 07:55:39 (24260): Guest Log: [DEBUG] Cleanup will take a few minutes...

Why do you ask anybody else?
?
No Multicore (Atlas or Theory) in Windows atm.
No Multicore.

cvmfs_config probe sft.cern.ch failed
Theory https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=222398066

Toujours aussi charmant ce mec... faudrait penser à enlever le parapluie du fion.

Translation : thanks a lot for this nicely explained information.

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From what i understand, SixTrack development is dead
The next app for tracking simulation will be Xtrack/Xboinc

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Thanks for having a look into that. I've meanwhile compared the VM output of this task to other tasks I have running (they log 30-50.000 events after a few hours), so, sadly, I have aborted this task.

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Only about 600 tasks left to send.

Number of Atlas-Tasks dropping against Zero.

I am not getting any for Windows now, I have the project selected and Vbox installed, site says there are loads but nothing downloading?Do you have 'native' selected in your project preferences?

I have nvme SSDs, nothing specical just what came in the Lenovo from the factory, its like the OEM version of the 980 PRO. It could be, however, after startup they don't normally all finish/start at the same time?

As I said, it's been aborted now.
I had only left it alone because I've had others run long but were otherwise working normally.
I don't make a habit of digging through workunit logs without cause.

Apologies, I forgot to reply.

That was indeed the problem. Thanks.

VirtualBox apps keep complex configuration problems away from volunteers who can't deal with them.

All because you didn't install (and configure) a local CVMFS client.


Perhaps the solution is not to require oddball filesystems and configurations from the users? To my knowledge no other project requires this junk. Or if they do, they handle it well like Rosetta so I don't notice it.


As for my errors on windows, I had about 8 tasks fail on lasts nights reboot at roughly 10 hours per task already run. Just like I said. 80 core * hours lost.

None of those things are *required*. They're a choice we the users make to run the native application instead of the Virtualbox one. While I have a number of errors in my history I also accept that the vast majority are my own fault, usually from playing around trying to make things work "better" but instead making them worse.

As for your errors on Windows, just because a work unit has clocked up any amount of time (wall-clock time) while active doesn't mean it's been using the CPU for that same time. They're tracked separately for a reason.

Solved. I ended up installing a new up-to-date OS (Fedora 39). Then followed this guide to install BOINC on Fedora and also this guide to install CVMFS on Fedora.

I install CVMFS:

dnf install https://ecsft.cern.ch/dist/cvmfs/cvmfs-2.11.0/cvmfs-2.11.0-1.fc34.x86_64.rpm https://ecsft.cern.ch/dist/cvmfs/cvmfs-config/cvmfs-config-default-latest.noarch.rpm http://ecsft.cern.ch/dist/cvmfs/cvmfs-2.11.0/cvmfs-libs-2.11.0-1.fc34.x86_64.rpm

cvmfs_config setup

Then added CVMFS configuration to /etc/cvmfs/default.local:

CVMFS_REPOSITORIES="atlas,atlas-condb,grid,cernvm-prod,sft,alice" CVMFS_HTTP_PROXY="auto;DIRECT" CVMFS_USE_CDN=yes CVMFS_CLIENT_PROFILE=single

And ran the prepare_theory_native_environment script from this board:

sudo /bin/bash -c "export script=\"prepare_theory_native_environment\" && wget https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/download/\$script -O /tmp/\$script && chmod u+x /tmp/\$script && /tmp/\$script && rm /tmp/\$script"

Got it, thanks!

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