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River~~ Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 456 Credit: 75,142 RAC: 0	Message 12294 - Posted: 23 Jan 2006, 8:48:13 UTC From the news item on the front page, 21 Jan: The new study is an extension of previous simulations. We want to evaluate the long term beam stability in the LHC in the presence of unknown or partially corrected magnetic imperfections, i.e. small field errors in the magnet elements. This scenario must be expected especially in the first few years of the LHC and in particular during its startup in 2007. If I understand the news item correctly, the new runs are about predicting the effects of mis-configurations before they happen - which I assume will speed up the deployment of the machine once the civil engineering is finished, and reduce down time when the inevitable problems occur. The necessary resources for such a study are available only within the LHC@home project. If I have understood our role correctly, up to now we've been saving CERN money - they's have had to find machines to crunch all the design data from somewhere and indeed in the early satages of the LHC project they were running WU on in-house mainframes as well, in case not enough of us came forward to offer our cpu cycles. We are now moving into a phase where we, the crunchers, are enabling the beam physicists to deliver a working machine sooner than they would otherwise, and a more reliable machine due to various errors being understood before they occur. So I think anyone who has crunched one or more WU for this project can justifiably feel a little proud to read this news item - I know I do River~~ ID: 12294 · Reply Quote

MikeX Send message Joined: 14 Jul 05 Posts: 14 Credit: 10,530 RAC: 0	Message 12295 - Posted: 23 Jan 2006, 10:29:33 UTC I feel very proud to support the various projects that I'm in, but in this one I feel this particularly since I always loved the CERN work and so it feels very good to have something to do with the LHC construction. Wanna visit BOINC Synergy? Click my stats! Join BOINC Synergy ID: 12295 · Reply Quote

Mr.Pernod Send message Joined: 16 Jul 05 Posts: 65 Credit: 369,728 RAC: 0	Message 12300 - Posted: 23 Jan 2006, 11:23:04 UTC wooty 4 us :) ID: 12300 · Reply Quote

Lee Carre Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 23 Credit: 22,567 RAC: 0	Message 12342 - Posted: 24 Jan 2006, 1:40:38 UTC yey :D ID: 12342 · Reply Quote

Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 51 Credit: 10,626 RAC: 0	Message 12494 - Posted: 27 Jan 2006, 10:31:52 UTC Yes, I feel proud too. As LHC is my pet project, I'm so happy to be able to help out with the science done here. :-) "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world" - Me ID: 12494 · Reply Quote

Kenneth Larsen Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 36 Credit: 90,806 RAC: 0	Message 12512 - Posted: 27 Jan 2006, 19:00:23 UTC Last modified: 27 Jan 2006, 19:01:51 UTC Same here :-) - I hope the LHC will be as revolutionary as some think. ID: 12512 · Reply Quote

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