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Send message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 506 Credit: 118,619 RAC: 0 |
I found this on the Q&A boards, posted by Chrulle a couple of days ago: <blockquote> The Sixtrack program will not run forever. It will continue doing runs on and off until the LHC is built (2007). In the meantime we are looking into running other simulations under LHC@home. At the moment we are trying to run Geant4, this is a simulation program that models the detectors in the LHC. Chrulle LHC@home developer </blockquote> You can find out more about Geant4 here Gaspode the UnDressed http://www.littlevale.co.uk |
Send message Joined: 18 Sep 04 Posts: 163 Credit: 1,682,370 RAC: 0 |
<blockquote> The Sixtrack program will not run forever. It will continue doing runs on and off until the LHC is built (2007). In the meantime we are looking into running other simulations under LHC@home. At the moment we are trying to run Geant4, this is a simulation program that models the detectors in the LHC. </blockquote> Nice to know, that LHC@home is not ending soon. But why is this info buried in the Q&A board. This should be on the front page! Michael Team Linux Users Everywhere |
Send message Joined: 25 Aug 05 Posts: 42 Credit: 3,518 RAC: 0 |
<blockquote>I found this on the Q&A boards, posted by Chrulle a couple of days ago: <blockquote> The Sixtrack program will not run forever. It will continue doing runs on and off until the LHC is built (2007). In the meantime we are looking into running other simulations under LHC@home. At the moment we are trying to run Geant4, this is a simulation program that models the detectors in the LHC. Chrulle LHC@home developer </blockquote> You can find out more about Geant4 here </blockquote> I saw this on the BOINC Synergy front page before I saw it here. It should be on the front page. |
Send message Joined: 18 Jul 05 Posts: 2 Credit: 5,290 RAC: 0 |
Yea, I really don't think that the front page has an informational purpose anymore either :) |
Send message Joined: 27 Jul 04 Posts: 182 Credit: 1,880 RAC: 0 |
No it should not be on the front page, because it was a specific answer to a specific question. Just to clarify: Sixtrack will need to be run for the design phase of the LHC, which is planned to go into operation in 2007. Sixtrack will the move to a support phase for the LHC, where it will run studies while the LHC is in operation. In the meantime we are looking for more applications to run on LHC@home. The best candidate at the moment is Geant4. Chrulle Research Assistant & Ex-LHC@home developer Niels Bohr Institute |
Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 545 Credit: 148,912 RAC: 0 |
Chrulle, Thanks for all of the good news. As a physics "wanna-be" this is extrodinarily interesting to me. If I were to do only one project LHC@Home would be it. So, for me this is very good news indeed. |
Send message Joined: 18 Sep 04 Posts: 28 Credit: 59,744 RAC: 0 |
Good to hear LHC will be around for some time yet.........If I am reading this correctly, it means that once the LHC is in operation, sixtrack will be used to analyse the results? |
Send message Joined: 29 Sep 04 Posts: 187 Credit: 705,487 RAC: 0 |
Sixtrack will not analyse results, a new client will be required for this or for detector simulation work Geant4, (a particle/matter simulator), is a current investigation. Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream. |
Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 545 Credit: 148,912 RAC: 0 |
Well, if they decide to change the machine, sixtrack-Plus will come out ... and who has heard of scientists satisfied with their toys? :) |
Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 165 Credit: 146,925 RAC: 0 |
<blockquote>who has heard of scientists satisfied with their toys? :)</blockquote> Only if they have found the answer to the problem. In which case all of the toys for that problem are turned into scrap. BOINC WIKI |
Send message Joined: 17 Sep 04 Posts: 23 Credit: 6,871,909 RAC: 1 |
<blockquote>Only if they have found the answer to the problem. In which case all of the toys for that problem are turned into scrap.</blockquote> most answers create many new (related) questions, some of the toys get reused then ;) |
Send message Joined: 22 Jul 05 Posts: 31 Credit: 2,909 RAC: 0 |
In which case all of the toys for that problem are turned into scrap. Not really. Usually people are quite inventive when it comes to finding new interesting uses for machines once their original task is done. If scientific equipment is suddenly scraped it is usually for political reasons. like the american moon program being canceled when there was no russian reply to it. |
Send message Joined: 27 Jul 04 Posts: 182 Credit: 1,880 RAC: 0 |
Klasm is right. At cern for example we are still using the SPS from the seventies. It is going to be modified to be used as a proton injector for the LHC. Chrulle Research Assistant & Ex-LHC@home developer Niels Bohr Institute |
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