LHC@home

Until now, my 100,000 turns-wus took approx. 27 minutes on a athlon64 3400. today i discovered that my short wus (which i believed were unstable) ran the whole number of turns while finishing in less than 5 min.
It was a proeight wu, that you can see here .

The simulation tracks a number of particles around the ring. I think it starts at around 1000 particles. As the simulation proceeds some of the particles leave the beam, so fewer calculations are required to track the remaining particles and the computation proceeds more quickly.

You may have had a unit that lost particles from early on, but managed to hold onto a few for the whole 100,000 turn simulation. It can happen. If the simulation had been a 1,000,000 turn version it may have run to completion almost as quickly when the last particles left the beam.



Giskard - the first telepathic robot.

i got a real odd one

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/workunit.php?wuid=466930

it took 0 seconds to process ?
the others took some time to process

wonders if it got any particles in the first place

Dave