LHC@home

I just checked four machines I have on this project. All received WU\'s in the past two months and all were completed successfully.

Maybe if the powers that be at lhc@home used some of the social networking like Facebook and Twitter, and the news utilities like RSS feeds, we could rebuild our member base. BOINC, SETI, and World Community Grid are doing very well with these tools.

Lhc@home, based on data at BOINCStats, has had 89,303 users with 218,339 hosts. That\'s not chopped liver. We currently still have 9422 users with 13,593.

If people knew that there is work, maybe they would come on back.

If we are to get work, to be a part of this project, we need to impress with numbers, and we need to get those numbers by hook or crook.

I will be frank, I crunch on twelve projects running BOINC software. I run five machines flat out 24/7/365. Lhc@home is my favorite project because of the implications of the research.

I want us to succeed in producing the same sort of teraflops of data for lhc@home that we do of Rosetta@home, projects under the rubric of World Community Grid, and the like.

Please do what you can to help.

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All that is well and good, but the reality is that at the current time, work unit demand still greatly exceeds supply. Put another way, the lack of work is not due to the small user base; rather, the small user base is due to the lack of work. Some work is now flowing, yes, but still not nearly enough to keep the existing crunchers running continuously for any significant length of time. The project even caps the daily download quota at 10 wu/CPU to try to achieve a more equitable distribution of work among the relatively few users that are still here. Adding more users through some sort of awareness-raising campaign won\\\'t appreciably increase the amount of work done and will very likely result in many more complaints of \\\"Why don\\\'t I ever get any work?\\\"

Until LHC@Home can supply the 24/7/365 workflow of the other projects you listed, keeping the user base relatively small does more good than harm, IMHO.


-- Tony D.

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I have a Linux box and cannot crunch for LHC@home.But, remaining in the physics arena, I am crunching for Einstein@home and QuantumFIRE. QMC@home uses the same MonteCarlo algorithm of QuantumFire, and AQUA@home is simulating a quantum computer.CPDN runs climate models. Only SETI@home has a scarcity of work and many hardware problems. There is a new entry in this field, www.setiquest.org, which is sponsored by the SETI Institute, which has nothing to do with SETI@home and seems to ignore its existence but I could not find any binary for my Linux box on it. So, with 6 projects giving me work units, I an never out of work.
Tullio

Just a quick update. I have had 24 tasks since Aug 1 and all have completed without error. Some were very short but there were a few that were in the 8 to 10 hour area.

My system is a genuine Intel Core 2 Quad CPU running Windows XP SP3.

I do other work on it such as tech writing (Framemaker) and some graphics (Photoshop & Illustrator). They seem to play well together.

Also, SETI and Einstein are two other projects running.

Einstein@home has just discovered a new pulsar and a second one is in the works, according to dr.Bruce Allen.
Tullio

Einstein@home has just discovered a new pulsar and a second one is in the works, according to dr.Bruce Allen.
Tullio

Here is an article about the discovery. Click here.

I think it is kind of nice that Einstein@home gives public credit to the people who own the actual computers that made the discovery.