nanoHUB@home

[Alez]

Project home page is here

May I add that whoever customised the BOINC front end for this site should be shot for being obviously colour blind and breaking the index from standard. I've added links to the pages not displayed.

Welcome to nanoHUB@home

A resource for nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanoHUB.org was created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology. Now you can participate in nanoHUB research and education through volunteer computing!

To join add project and use https://boinc.nanohub.org

Team setup is here

Project uses VBox

Project has the following apps

Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU 1.17 (vbox64) 21 Jan 2015,
Intel 64-bit Mac OS 10.5 or later 1.17 (vbox64)
Microsoft Windows running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU 1.17 (vbox64) 21 Jan 2015
Microsoft Windows (98 or later) running on an Intel x86-compatible CPU 1.17 (vbox32) 21 Jan 2015
Linux running on an Intel x86-compatible CPU 1.17 (vbox32)
Mac OS 10.4 or later running on Intel 1.17 (vbox32)

Server status is here

[Alez]

I've managed to snag a unit. Interesting to see if it works or not.

[scole of TSBT]

I need to try these projects while they're around. I always seem to wait and then their gone or out of work indefinitely.

[Alez]

On the plus side, if they work these startups are good for extra stars on WUProp. On the downside my WUProp is littered with a graveyard of BOINC projects that ran for a few hours.

[Alez]

well the ' unit ' was a 900MB VDI file that ran for 90 secs or so and completed for 0.05 credits. Presume that is testing only.

[Dirk Broer]

On the plus side, if they work these startups are good for extra stars on WUProp. On the downside my WUProp is littered with a graveyard of BOINC projects that ran for a few hours.

They should award Tin stars for every twenty apps that did not make Bronze, i'd have four of those...

[Alez]

On the plus side, if they work these startups are good for extra stars on WUProp. On the downside my WUProp is littered with a graveyard of BOINC projects that ran for a few hours.

They should award Tin stars for every twenty apps that did not make Bronze, i'd have four of those...

Wouldn't be far short myself. Maybe should be little gravestones.

[Alez]

From the project.

Thanks to a new round of funding, this project will be more publicly active in 2018. Please stay tuned...
24 Jan 2018, 19:32:38 UTC

Not sure whether to hold my breath .....
Actually looks like I missed some Linux units....

[Dirk Broer]

These buggers severely hamper your crunching box, to the point that they can only run NanoHUB till they're dried of WUs...

[Bryan]

These buggers severely hamper your crunching box, to the point that they can only run NanoHUB till they're dried of WUs...

In what way ... threads or memory or ?

[Alez]

These buggers severely hamper your crunching box, to the point that they can only run NanoHUB till they're dried of WUs...

Looks like I missed any being sent

[scole of TSBT]

These buggers severely hamper your crunching box, to the point that they can only run NanoHUB till they're dried of WUs...

In what way ... threads or memory or ?

I got a few. It's a vbox64_mt app and it says it's only using 1 CPU but maybe vbox isn't playing nice. Here is a completed task if you want to see more...https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_ho ... tid=208165

LIke other vbox apps, I've had to limit the number of active WUs to prevent computation errors.

[Alez]

3 min units for 2 1/2 credits. Not worth the effort trying to force any onto my systems

[scole of TSBT]

credits, smedits. I need hours for another wuprop star! I have 5 WUs hung at 100% progress that I'll let run for the next 20 hours if needed

[Dirk Broer]

These buggers severely hamper your crunching box, to the point that they can only run NanoHUB till they're dried of WUs...

In what way ... threads or memory or ?

The test box only has three cores and a mere 8GB of RAM, and it is clearly overburdened.

[Bryan]

credits, smedits. I need hours for another wuprop star! I have 5 WUs hung at 100% progress that I'll let run for the next 20 hours if needed

Those are "golden" WU ... just kick back and enjoy the WuProp hours

[scole of TSBT]

WUProp hasn't included it yet. Is it because the project isn't exporting stats yet? PM'd Sebastian already.

[Alez]

nanohub seems to have had work for a while now, exporting stats to wuprop and BAM etc. so I think it's time it moved to it's home as an active project.
I think Physics will be an appropriate home for it.

[davidbam]

Woo hoo !!! Pink box too

[Alez]

Indeed. The master has created something even the minor can use

[Hal Bregg]

Project stated producing stable amount of work at the moment. There was a lot of troubles with WUs running endlessly or ending with errors but admins seems to solve most of the issues.

Project does not pay well considering most of the tasks are short and if you want to run it on multiple cores make sure you have enough RAM available.

EDIT

Despite promising start I grind my teeth from time to time as faulty tasks sips through and hijack CPU cores for hours doing nothing. They get cancelled by server eventually but sometimes manual intervention is required. Super frustrating desipte promises made by projects admin.