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 davidmcw Send message Joined: 18 Sep 04 Posts: 17 Credit: 53,515 RAC: 0 
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Does anyone know if the graphics show while processing an LHC@Home unit are in any way respresetative of the unit? I know that, or at least assume that, the SETI@Home graphics in some way represent the work unit I'm processing, similarly with climateprediction.net. I was just wondering. Slainte, David |
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Send message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 506 Credit: 118,619 RAC: 0 |
The LHC@Home web site suggests that it's a representation of the beam cross section, but in fact it isn't. Think of it as a mass of particles operating under mutual attraction. It has only passing relevance to the calculations being performed. In fact, I suspect the ONLY connection it has to the computation is the number of turns displayed. It's quite pretty, nonetheless! Giskard - the first telepathic robot. |
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Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 321 Credit: 10,607 RAC: 0 |
read this http://athome.web.cern.ch/athome/LHCathome/whatis.html |
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davidmcw Send message Joined: 18 Sep 04 Posts: 17 Credit: 53,515 RAC: 0
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Thanks for the info. The graphics are very pretty though. The courier/ X-files font is a nice touch |
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winstonsmith Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 6 Credit: 6,729 RAC: 0 |
Am I the only one who doesn't manage to get the graphics? ._. I'm running 4.13 on Win98, and if I click "Show Graphics" on a LHC workunit it would just crash the computer. The Sixtrack windows remains in tray, if I try to open it nothing happens, and if I terminate it (by Ctrl+Alt+Canc) also Boinc crashes. And what's more, S@H graphics are work properly... ;_; |
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Ben Segal Send message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 139 Credit: 2,579 RAC: 0 |
The current graphics, as MikeW quite rightly says, show just a bunch of gravitationally attracted particles flitting about, and not related to the particles being calculated. But a newer version is almost ready which does display computed particles in a sort of tunnel. We will release this soon, even though opinions here differ on whether the newer display is prettier or not... I certainly hope that "leaden" is the only one who is getting crashes. Ben Segal / LHC@home |
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Michal Krakowiak Send message Joined: 17 Sep 04 Posts: 6 Credit: 289,475 RAC: 0 |
> ... > is almost ready which does display computed particles in a sort of > tunnel. We will release this soon, even though opinions here differ > on whether the newer display is prettier or not... I think, in case of LHC pretty, means true. Just don't care about fancy graphics, and made quite well visualisation of calculated things. Then it will be nice. regards |
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