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Message 27658 - Posted: 24 Dec 2015, 15:40:02 UTC

First let me wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I (we) are extremely grateful for your continued and loyal support.
I know we rarely have enough work to satisfy everyone but I hope
that will change in 2016. If all goes well we will be adding beam
collimation studies to the existing SixTrack workload. This will
imply a bit more upload/download so will probably be a different
project within lhcathomeclassic. We shall also introduce the
possibility of returning all results and also checkpoints so that
very very long studies can be split into a series of WorkUnits
of reasonable length.

The last year has (again) been difficult. The CERN side infrastructure
is creaking at the seams and we have had great trouble in building
Windows executables. I hope we can switch to gfortran which would be
extremely appropriate for our volunteer project.
The good news is we managed to participate in
the SETI Germany BOINC Pentathlon and had up to 350,000 active WUs.
I have also managed to build a MacOS executable.

Well the best laid schemes...... gang aft astray! but a colleague has
demonstrated the use of GPUs with numerically compatible results.
For myself on the longer term I would like to support Android/ARM
processors and study the growth of floating-point error beyond a
million turns.

Priority will go to improving the quality of the service and the
CERN infrastructure, but I can dream..................

So thanks again for your interest and support which is just incredible.
More information in the NEWS forum when we have our detailed plan
for 2016. Eric.
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Message 27665 - Posted: 10 Jan 2016, 22:24:31 UTC - in response to Message 27658.  

This will
imply a bit more upload/download so will probably be a different
project within lhcathomeclassic.


Are you anticipating a new top-level project or a sub-project still served by http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/

I have no serious concerns either way, just curious.

Thanks!
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Message 27667 - Posted: 11 Jan 2016, 21:01:09 UTC - in response to Message 27665.  

Haven't decided yet. Will let you know. Eric.
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Message 27668 - Posted: 11 Jan 2016, 23:08:42 UTC

Many projects have a variety of applications which the user can choose to run, or not, selectable in Project Preferences.
eg.
In vLHC one can choose to run:

Theory Simulations: yes/no
CMS Simulation: yes/no
Theory Simulations 64 bit: yes/no

Rather than setting up a dedicated project for any new developments, could they be added into that section?
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Message 27670 - Posted: 12 Jan 2016, 7:18:20 UTC

I would also like to see any new endeavors added to the existing project, there are already too many LHC projects to keep track of! In fact, I would be in favor of them being consolidated, perhaps like the University of North Dakota did with its "Citizen Science Grid" and the old projects, Wildlife@Home,
SubsetSum@Home, and DNA@Home.
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Message 27672 - Posted: 13 Jan 2016, 16:56:26 UTC

Happy New Year Eric,

You gave me enough new tasks to make it back on the LHC message boards again.

Hope all is well with you.

My year #12 started here a couple months ago and if the SixTrack tasks are available maybe I will get to read and reply once in a while.

(a million credits should give us a lifetime pass here )
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