LHC@home

Hello everyone,

So far, with my familial PC (intel i5, 4 cores, 16 Go RAM), I've been crunching weeks of diffrent tasks for the ATLAS experiment. I just recently discovered how little was my contribution when I read, in the "graphics" section of the ATLAS tasks :

"So far you have simulated 15236 particle collisions, thank you !"

Knowing that CERN makes about 600 millions particle collisions every seconds which are then filtered in many ways. The Grid then registers and process only 1 out of 1 million of those collisions (I hope I'm write until now).

So my weeks of PC struggling just processed 25 seconds of ATLAS' run

That's quite mind blowing ! I'd love to know what datas exactly result from these processes and make them so long to calculate. Could someone give some details ??

We (in the Boinc environment) are not actually calculating any collision results from the Atlas experiment. We are calculating different kinds of simulations for the Atlas experiment. I think that the collision results are all calculated by the Grid.

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