1) Message boards : LHC@home Science : What exactly are we doing ? (Message 15511)
Posted 18 Nov 2006 by Soeren Ebser
Post:
Hi,
interesting question - good awnser.
Could you place this on a more obviouse place at the homepage? I guess many users have the same question. And two sentences well hidden under "technical callenges" are not enough information to cure curiuos spirits.

I wondered myself several times about why nothing seems to happen at the project and didn't even find really helpful information here in the discussion board (By the way - the FAQ-link doesn't work).
The newsboard is outdated and one can easily get the impression the last thing that happened in that project was a computer crash.
Contrary to other users who wrote in the forum I don't mind having a project on standby, waiting for work most of the time - it's not the only boinc project. But I need to know if the project still works and why I am on standby.

Think about this: A computer grid consisting of 6000 computer needs technical maintenance. But this grid also consists of 6000 computer owners who are willing to donate their CPU time to you (which is and at the end of the day real money if you take into account that energy consumption of newer CPU depends on the workload). They also need some "maintenance" if you don't want your grid to break into pieces sooner or later.
Just tell us whenever new work was sent out in the news board and maybe if new work is on the way. Just to let us know we are still needed.

Sören Ebser



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