Good Day Ladies and gentlemen. After Yesterdays Reddit AMA by the nice folks at home I thought I should join BOINC and run LHC@Home.
Installation of Boinc and Virtual box went without error message.

I registered on the LHC@home/sixtrack site. I then run the Boinc Manager and go to add the project. Which completes fine using the LHC@home username and password. I do get the Message from the Boinc Manager that the Project has been added successfully.

This is where the problem is though. The project Never shows in my project list.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank YOU in advance.

Not sure if this is of importance but the Advanced view shows the message L "Connected to Local Host (7.4.42)

Welcome. 'Connected to localhost' is normal and correct: BOINC consists of two parts - an invisible 'client' (which supervises the project work), and a visible 'Manager' (which lets you see, and if you wish control, what's going on). The message says that both components are present, working, and talking to each other.

LHC/sixtrack doesn't actually need the VBox add-on to the basic BOINC framework, although other projects based at CERN do. That shouldn't matter.

You need to be careful to distinguish between 'Projects' and 'Tasks' when talking about BOINC. Sixtrack should indeed have appeared on the Projects tab immediately after attaching, though there are reports on the sixtrack website at the moment that there may be a project configuration problem, which they're working on.

On the other hand, tasks from sixtrack will only appear on your Tasks tab when they have been sent to your computer for processing - and sixtrack, in particular, regularly has no work available for hours or days at a time (and then it has a glut of work which has to be finished in a hurry). In particular, sixtrack has no tasks available to send as I type.

While you're waiting for the attachment problem to be sorted out - you can read about it at Cannot Join New Host for Existing Account? - and for new tasks to be made available, you might with to explore the range of other science projects which use the BOINC framework.

Hey Richard. Thank you for your input.

I have tried a few times now with the LHC@Home and still no success in adding it to projects. I will wait a while to give them time working on their fixes.

I ended up adding SETI@home to my projects which does show up in my projects. Though no tasks yet. I guess it would be best to add multiple projects so that there is always someone that can use my processing resources.

I would recommend WCG as a beginning project. They do humanitarian based sciences and tend to be one of the most reliable and secure projects. They also have a very active user base as well as admin staff. They also rarely run out of work if you have all of their sub projects selected. If you need any help getting set up, just let us know. You can create your account here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?recruiterId=338542

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