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Meantime works on Xtrack continues: version 0.98.5 released

Does this mean that eventually there will be new work for us as well at some point? I mean it wouldn't make sense to further develop Xtrack if the project is dead.

If you want to use Theory VBox here, you have to disable docker on your machine and disable "run test applications" in your preferences on the dev-system.
To disable docker after you returned all docker tasks:
Open cmd as administrator. Give the command "bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off" and reboot.

Fa La La Laaaa

The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detect rare events on a daily basis, but some are exceptionally rare, such as this latest result from the CMS collaboration. For the first time, the collaboration has observed the production of a single top quark along with a W and a Z boson, an extremely rare process that happens only once every trillion proton collisions. Finding this event in the LHC data is like searching for a needle in a haystack the size of an Olympic stadium.

I bought a new computer especially for XTrack... - Those guys at CERN owe me WUs. ;-)

For those outside of CERN, have any of you visited and toured CERN? For anyone inside, do you have any suggestions on what we have to see? I grew up next to FermiLab outside Chicago, and have wanted to see CERN since I was a kid. Cannot wait!

I am just happy that I occasionally get work from Xtrack

I’ll also be presenting the project at the upcoming HL-LHC collaboration meeting, where I’m sure we’ll attract even more colleagues eager to run exciting simulations with your help, all for the advancement of accelerator physics :D

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WUs with CPU time 10 times less get 100 times less points:
Yesterday CPU time 15,780.35 got 148.07 points
Today CPU time 1,823.91 got 2.68 points

Something has changed: credits awarded for the latest batch of tasks are a fraction of what was granted up until yesterday. CPU time required for 1 credit is about 500-1000 seconds which seems to be 10x as much as it used to be.

Hi all,
As always, thanks for crunching our jobs.
Your contribution is highly valued.

Cheers,
Frederik

Runtime estimate is 1m50s on an i7-1165G7 (Win11). All running tasks are at 50 minutes as of this post.

Looking forward to this. Will there be a post in Boinc site with a link when available?

Yes, I understand that the issue isn't expected to reappear.