I've been wondering for some time if it was worth keeping my original LHC@Home project linked in BOINC now that I have Test4Theory and I see recently that the website has been gutted and retitled SIXTRACK which when linked to BOINC shows up as "LHC@Home 1.0" - a completely new and separate entity.

Nothing yet in the News section to indicate whether this is going to be something that will be providing us with WU's to crunch, but I'm assuming it is.

Their message boards seem to have been wiped out so I can't ask there.

Anyone know what's going on? I realise that their news section will eventually say something but was wondering if anyone was acquainted with the CERN rumour mill?

Peter

The last I heard was that the old LHC/sixtrack server was being 'repatriated' back from QMC London (I think it was) to CERN in Geneva. It was in much need of an overhaul and updating, anyway. I believe the plan was to bring it back into use, but I'm guessing it's taken longer, and more resources, to get the VM version to this stage than expected.

Saenger has written something at the BOINCstats forum. See also his following message about the LHC@home fora.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

I am not a member of the Czech National Team on LHC 1.0
Fixed that...

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Their message boards seem to have been wiped out so I can't ask there.

Peter

They seem to now have a functional Message board as of this posting.

Hope this helps.

After yet another change to their URL, they now seem to live at http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/index.php. Let's hope that one stays their address for now.

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People who expect that the LHC URL in the "Add project" wizard changes automagically, do know that it won't. The wizard gets this information from the all_projects_list.xml file in your BOINC Data directory. This file is only changed when you do a BOINC client update installation, not with a contact to any server (there's no contact with 'a BOINC server'), and only after the BOINC developers made changes to the file.

Thus far BOINC 6.12.37 and 6.13.5 will still have the old file included. I have just notified the developers of this small problem, they told me that the updated file will be available with the next client(s).

In the mean time you can edit this file yourself. When in Windows, you can use Windows Wordpad to make the changes.

- Open all_projects_list.xml with Wordpad.
- Press CTRL + F (to do a search).
-- Fill in LHC and click Find Next or press Enter.
- Change the entry for LHC to LHC 1.0 (<name>LHC@home 1.0</name>)
- Change the URL from http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ to http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack (<url>http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/</url>)
- Save the file.
- Open BOINC Manager (no need to exit & reload BOINC).
- Tools->Add project or account manager->Add project->Next->Scroll down to LHC 1.0, select it to see that the URL is now correct.

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