Update on the Large Hadron Collider

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For those that ran LHC@home, and for those that have a general interest in these matters:

Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the Large Hadron Collider
On November 23, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time, allowing the operators to test the synchronization of the beams and giving the experiments their first chance to look for proton-proton collisions. With just one bunch of particles circulating in each direction, the beams can be made to cross in up to two places in the ring. From early in the afternoon, the beams were made to cross at points 1 and 5, home to the A Toroidal LHC Apparatus (ATLAS) and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detectors, both of which were on the lookout for collisions. Later, beams crossed at points 2 and 8, the Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) and the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb).
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Full story from Astronomy.com
 
So glad it hasn't gone wrong this time. I do hope they find something even if it isn't what they set out to look for. Can't wait to see the particles little faces when they do the big ol test's for Higgs
 
And a bump, because there's a new LHC project: LHC2@home. Note that if you wish to play you will need to run a virtual box as the app only runs in Unix!


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Why the Virtual Machine is not using all my CPU cores?

We decided to use one single core for running the virtual machine. We know that there are a lot of users with several cores available, and in the future we will try to use all the available ones according to the BOINC user preferences.
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*meh*
 
Soooooooo I fancy having a crack at this.
Would be nice if I helped discover the Higgs Boson :)

Is there an OCUK team for this project ?
I assume I enter some kind of detail into the bionic client if there is ?
 
Yes there is a team going, 7 of us so far and I managed to get hold of a couple of units to crunch, but because it's beta there having a bit of server overload at the moment. But it's a nice to think there's a remote chance you might find the Higgs Boson. The project at the moment is called Test4Theory@Home

Stephen
 
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Cool !!
I guess the team is listed under OCUK or something to that effect.
(Not that it's accepting new members at the mo, but when it does.....)
 
Moonpie2 said:
Cool !!
I guess the team is listed under OCUK or something to that effect.
(Not that it's accepting new members at the mo, but when it does.....)
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Current T4T OCUK stats

My progress so far- Complete two tasks 1 task failed and I've had a couple of restarts on a task that has added about 40 hrs work due to a couple of blue screen reboots. A little more volts on my overclock on memory seems to have helped. I'm running Seti as well again to make the most of all the cores and the GPU. Even if registered T4T (Test4Theory@Home) and get work, it will only run on one core and one unit at a time. Also as yet there's no GPU support.
The last registration was on the 12th Aug and the project has about 8000 registered folk, hopefully this situation will improve soon and some additional OCUK'ers will be able register and get tasks.

Stephen
 
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Yeah, I'm chugging along with SETI at the mo until I can register for some LHC action.

SETI uses GPU but only Nvidia right ?
I have an ATI HD5670 just sat there doing nothing :(

I got an i3 540, but to keep the heat down I'm only using 3 cores (well, 2 cores and 1 hyperthread I guess) at 80% efficiency.
Doesn't help that I moved to Shanghai and it's the middle of hot and humid summer. Hahah !!
 
I think that right, only Nvidia cards can use the Phsyx GPU engine and Cuda to run under Boinc. For me it certainly makes a huge difference with the amount of work done even with only 1 graphics card, allowing about 10x as much work thoughput on Seti tasks compared to 1 of my CPU cores.

FYI keep checking the server data (here) , as a few new registrations each day on T4T seem to be happening, getting the VM machine to work and tasks are other hurdles to overcome.

Stephen
 
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SUPAH !!

I installed the Luntics thing and now what ?
DO I have to run anything else once it's installed or will Bionic use my GPU when it can without me having to do anything ?
As currently I have Bionic open and my GPU load is %0
 
:(:(:(:(:(

I just tried adding the Prime project to my Bionic CLient and I lost all 6 SETI tasks I was currently working on. (including 3 of those long winded astropulse things that were on about 70%)
WTF TO THE MAX !??!?!?!?!
 
Moonpie2 said:
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I just tried adding the Prime project to my Bionic CLient and I lost all 6 SETI tasks I was currently working on. (including 3 of those long winded astropulse things that were on about 70%)
WTF TO THE MAX !??!?!?!?!
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I may be wrong, but when you installed the lunatics apps (and appdata changed) BOINC dumped all the work and started again with the new apps.

To get the GPU working you should use the installer carefully, have high enough graphics drivers, have a supported card, and have BOINC set to use the GPU.
 
Yeah lesson learnt.
Only mess about with the Lunatics installer when I have no WUs nearing completion :)

Well, my drivers, card and Bionic set up are definitely ok for Lunatics, but I guess I set something wrong on the Lunatics installer, been chatting to another OCUK dude and am gonna give it another crack :D
 
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