Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist
Wrote:

Dear all,

Today you can test a new feature that we are developing for the web application: an HTML5 video-tutorial that interacts actively with your web application user interface.
For this development, we are using pure HTML5 + CSS3 + Javascript. The video tutorial uses the latest and open source code for video encoding from Google: Webm, so only modern web browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome will be able to play it (these browsers are free and open source!).
The result, well, I think it is better if you try it by yourself. Go to
http://www.citizencyberscience.net/t4t-webapp-help/
and leave a comment here if you like it or not ;) We would love your feedback!.

Enjoy!!!

http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/

That browser bashing isn't something you do. You either make it work for all browsers, as long as you're not too lazy about it, or you find a way around it.

I get the message about needing the free browsers Firefox or Chrome, when I don't allow ANY of the 5 sub-sites on the page through NoScript in FF. Why the need to stream crap from 5 individual sites? What are these 5 sites? Do I just have to trust them because your blue eyes tell me to do so?

And what of Konquerer? Safari? Mozilla Seamonkey? Any other non-IE but also non-FF and non-Chrome browser?

There is no other BOINC site out there that bashes IE, just because it's IE. Trouble is, IE is still the most widely used browser ever, you're just making sure that people using that will turn away from your project and possibly from BOINC.

Why is there still nothing on that page that explains what it is that I see in those graphics? Am I one of your project scientists, who knows what jeppsson3 is, or a Generator: vincia, or what you mean with Process: zhad and Energy: 183 GeV ?? Is it so difficult to put a legend up that explains what is what?

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As near as I can tell the main features used by the T4T web app exist in IE8+.

I think I might fiddle with it a little bit this weekend and see if I can work out the kinks. I suspect it is just some small tweak needed when referencing an element in the DOM.

Whatever is wrong doesn't appear to be fixed in the IE10 platform preview.

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----- Rom
BOINC Development Team, U.C. Berkeley
My Blog

.. and we would all be happy with 640KB RAM... "640 K should be enough for anybody"... B. Gates on one of his better days.

Actually, this is a myth, he never said that. From http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484 (amongst a lot of other places):

On the site, Gates takes questions from kids.

QUESTION: "I read in a newspaper that in l981 you said '640K of memory should be enough for anybody.' What did you mean when you said this?"

ANSWER: "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."

Gates goes on a bit about 16-bit computers and megabytes of logical address space, but the kid's question (will this boy never work at Microsoft?) clearly rankled the billionaire visionary.

"Meanwhile, I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again."

Silly quotations do have a way of floating like rumors.

Most people will install Chrome or Firefox (very easy to do in spite of what you may think) and get on with life.

Oh, I know it's very easy to install such and so software, but making it the default browser so it starts as said default browser? No.

Then there's the little known fact that a lot of people, even ones running BOINC, think that their computer exists of Windows with a monitor, or for that matter Linux and a monitor. How many times do we have to ask for details on their system? How many people here still believe that everything runs in BOINC Manager? ..

As for the video player, why not throw "open source video players" (without quotes) into any search engine and see the bucket load of alternatives? Of course, you can stick with Google's alternative (is one of your big donors Google that you keep praising them every time you can?) or you can go for any of the alternatives. Or why not both?

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Test4Theory (AKA LHC@home 2.0) NEWS
30 Jan 2012 | 10:27:08 UTC

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist
Wrote:

Web application not working

Dear all,

During this week you are going to experience some minor problems with the web application, as we are deploying it in your VMs. While the deployment is done, you will get the warning message from the web application, saying that your browser does not support HTML5 and Javascript, but giving you access to the figures and logs via two links. This warning message will be removed, once we have finally done the deployment. Sorry for the inconveniences.

Best regards,
The team.

UPDATE:
The new web application has been deployed in our servers. In one hour you should be able to reboot the VM if you want to see the new application or wait until your WU finishes. The next WU will have the updated code.

http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist
Wrote:

New Virtual Machine released

Dear all,

We are very happy to announce that we have released today a new virtual machine (cernvm_2.5.1-3-1). This new version has several improvements at the low level that will help to improve the number of returned successful jobs. You will get the new virtual machine when all the jobs with the previous VM version have been processed.

Best regards,
The team.

http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/

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!

25 March 2012

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist
Wrote:

Dear all,

We have just deployed a new revision of the current Virtual Machine 2.5.1-3-1.1 that should improve the stability of the system and reduce the errors with the floppy device.The queue has right now new WUs with this VM, so you will get it in the next few days.

Best regards,
The team

http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/
http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/

Test4Theory (AKA LHC@home 2.0)
NEWS: Posted: 16 May 2012 | 7:24:57 UTC

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist
posted the following:

Citizen Cyberlab: a new project accepted by the European Union

Dear all,

A few months ago we asked you for opinions on ways to combine projects like T4T with online learning. Your feedback was really useful for preparing a funding proposal on this theme, and it's a pleasure to announce that the proposed project, called Citizen Cyberlab, has been accepted by the European Commission.

The project will involve a number of institutions in London, Paris and Geneva, including CERN – you can read more about it in the first comment of this post. A specific goal for CERN in the project will be to build an educational game based on LHC@home.

The project should start by the end of this year. However, we plan to start improving the links between LHC@home and online education already this summer, in a collaboration between Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU) and the Citizen Cyberscience Centre. I look forward to telling you more about that when the project kicks off in June.

Best Regards,
Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist

Comment or read more here

http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/index.php

http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=925&nowrap=true#10729

27 June 2012

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist
Wrote:

Dear all,

We are really happy to announce that we have finally a set of charts that display how many events you have simulated and the number of jobs that you have processed within the Virtual Machine.

These statistics show the real work that you are doing, so you can see how much you have contributed to the project!

We have created a Learderboard with the best contributors.



The leaderboard uses again the latest available and open standards web technologies such as HTML5, CSS and SVG (you can check the source code of the leaderboard here).

If you don't find yourself in the leaderboard, you can check your contributions directly in your T4T profile page. We have added a new link that says: "Check your contributions". Click in it and you will see a short summary regarding the number of jobs, simulations, events, etc. that you have contributed.

We are really happy about this new feature, and we will improve it and link it to more services pretty soon. As usual any comments and feedback are welcome!

Best regards,

The team!

http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=972&nowrap=true#11151

3 July 2012

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist
posted:

CERN and the scientific World are abuzz with speculations about what exactly will be announced in a scientific seminar to take place at CERN, this Wednesday, July 4th, at 9am (CET).

A public web cast will be available: http://cern.ch/webcast.

The speculations concern whether hints of the elusive Higgs particle - key to the origin of mass - have been reconfirmed with this year's data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). If so, Wednesday's announcement could kickstart a whole new era of investigations with the LHC.

Not only would it mark the beginning of detailed measurements of the physical properties of the Higgs field, such as its interaction with matter and force, it would also give a huge impetus to searches for so-called "New Physics" - the Higgs field being extremely sensitive to quantum effects, there are indications that something more, beyond the spectrum of known particles, is needed to explain its apparent stability. But first, tune in to CERN on Wednesday, if you want to be among the first to find out whether the Higgs is really fact, or still fiction.

http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=984&nowrap=true#11258

1 August 2012

Daniel Lombraña González
Project scientist
posted:

Dear all,
Steven Goldfarb from CERN is interviewed by Rhod Sharp and Dr Karl from BBC Radio 4, answering questions about the search for the Higgs Boson and the LHC@Home platform.
You can download the podcast and listen to it.
We hope you like it!
Best,
The team

http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/test4theory/forum_thread.php?id=1019&nowrap=true#11616