1) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC@Home name is misleading because no collider data available to BOINC (Message 21533)
Posted 6 Oct 2009 by Pierre Poulin
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To an outsider, the name LHC@HOME implies that the data produced inside the LHC by actual atomic collisions will be up for analysis on BOINC once it\'s is operational.

On that assumption, I was in the planning stages of building a PC for that purpose solely (since I\\\'m on MAC OS and there\\\'s no LHC Mac client)and was exploring the site looking for info on optimal RAM amount when I stumbled on one of the forums to find out that no data from the actual collisions inside the LHC will be available to BOINC ,but to \\\"the GRID\\\" only.

That it\\\'s only LHC DESIGN data that goes to BOINC.

Hence, the LHC@Home name is clearly misleading and this should be clarified in capital letters on the main LHC@HOME page and the CERN pages too.

P.S. Can somebody fix the bug that puts backslashes everywhere ?



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