LHC@home

It looks like we have a new and larger kind of workunits called tunescand. The anticipated completion time is tenfold of the "old" kind.

- Peter

The WUs can simulate 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000 turns of the ring. Early Beta units included a lot of 1,000,000 turn units, crunching in 10-15 hours. CERN released a large number of 100,000 turn units later, presumably to speed up the turn round for Beta testing.

Bear in mind that the simulation is a mathematically chaotic system. Small differences in parameters can change the outcome radically. One of the properties of such a system is that the degeneration into chaos can happen suddenly, sometimes a long way into the simulation. 1,000,000 turns represents only about ten seconds in the real world. I'm just surprised that they're not issuing ten million turn units, or even hundred million turn units.



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