LHC@home

This project is incredible!

LHC Grid vs LHC@Home isn't even a contest!

The sustained effort of many fine engineers has resulted in the LHC Grid project producing an amazing 600 MBytes/Sec for data transfer sustained continuously over a period of 10 days.

One casual user of this project, however, has this result relegated to history by such a large margin (1e11 - 1e12) that it is embarrassing!

LHC@home to 1 user =>

Average upload rate 2.9475960171044E+17 KB/sec
Average download rate 2.0704415908107E+18

from: //lhcathome.cern.ch/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8452
[No offense intended but I stumbled over these figures while checking a pending result and just had to share the humour!!!]

versus

The rest of CERN to 7 Major centers!!

The organization succeeded in maintaining over a period of ten days a continuous data flow averaging 600 Mbyte/s between the CERN center in Geneva, Switzerland, and seven major computing centers in Europe (the research center in Karlsruhe among them) and the US. In all during the trial period 500 Tbyte of data were transmitted.

From: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/59063


I don't know the technology involved (for the LHC@Home user) but I sure wish it was mine!

Martin!

> Average upload rate 2.9475960171044E+17 KB/sec
> Average download rate 2.0704415908107E+18

We were just testing with a new quantum-mechanics based file transport technology. It is based on principle of moving whole files directly from source HD to destination HD in one instance of time (instead of serializing the file into bits and moving them through net).

Just kidding :)

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Markku Degerholm
LHC@home admin

We were just testing with a new quantum-mechanics based file transport
> technology. It is based on principle of moving whole files directly from
> source HD to destination HD in one instance of time (instead of serializing
> the file into bits and moving them through net).

LOL Marku! I'm putting a great big aluminum foil hat over my computer so you can't invade it's mind while I'm not looking... ;)

Regards,
Clint

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www.clintcollins.org - spouting off at the speed of site

What do you think the big accelerator is for?
The beam can burn through 30 m of copper, so a bit of tin foil is no problem.

;-)

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Chrulle
Research Assistant & Ex-LHC@home developer
Niels Bohr Institute

> What do you think the big accelerator is for?
> The beam can burn through 30 m of copper, so a bit of tin foil is no problem.

I thought that is what we were modeling ...

How to burn through the walls to take out the dude with the tin hat ...

Or, maybe it was not to hit the walls ... well, they are the same thing almost ... :)

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> > What do you think the big accelerator is for?
> > The beam can burn through 30 m of copper, so a bit of tin foil is no
> problem.
>
> I thought that is what we were modeling ...
>
> How to burn through the walls to take out the dude with the tin hat ...
>
> Or, maybe it was not to hit the walls ... well, they are the same thing almost
> ... :)
>

anyone know where to get a 30 m copper hat? I'd love to see that!

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> anyone know where to get a 30 m copper hat? I'd love to see that!
>
Not me, though you'd need at least a 31m hat anyway ;) :D

Puffy

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> Not me, though you'd need at least a 31m hat anyway ;) :D

lol

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> > anyone know where to get a 30 m copper hat? I'd love to see that!
> >
> Not me, though you'd need at least a 31m hat anyway ;) :D

That's it - I'm moving to the Andes Mountains and never looking back! =]