1) Message boards : Number crunching : Mac Intel anyone? (Message 14026)
Posted 18 Jun 2006 by Doolanshire
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I've searched the boards, and while I found a suiting thread it didn't have a conclusive reply.

I recently got a Macbook and I thought its two cores would come handy for crunching while I wrote my papers and whatnot. However, communication is constantly deferred (24 hours) with the message "Message from server: platform '1686-apple-darwin' not found".

I assume this is because the sixtrack thingy is not ready for the Mactels yet. Two questions though:

a) Is there any official word from LHC@Home on the matter? Einstein@Home works correctly.

b) If I reverted to an old PowerPC version of BOINC, would it work?

c) Would the fact that the PPC version is not native hurt my number-crunching capacity?

Thanks a bunch in advance. I can't wait for my Mac to contribute to LHC.

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Future completion of the LHC (Message 12258)
Posted 22 Jan 2006 by Doolanshire
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So, we want actual particle tracks and we could use a symbolic recognition of our efforts.

But,

Could anyone explain to me what relationship exists between, say, this forum and the actual LHC teams? Is there a way of politely submitting this to the "guys in charge" with any hope of a reply?

I'm sure a few people of these boards are well-connected...

I say this because the ideas are good, but it would not be the first time that ideas die as mere speculation because of a lack of initiative, from our side in this case.

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Future completion of the LHC (Message 12250)
Posted 22 Jan 2006 by Doolanshire
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Agreed, sounds like a very good idea to me.

Is it possible though? Who would we have to ask for both requests?
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Future completion of the LHC (Message 12233)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by Doolanshire
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Yeah. that's kind of what I meant.

It would be one hell of a lot nicer if it was actually an initiative of the LHC team itself, or at least recognized by the team in one way or the other.

If all fails we could always ('we' as in "LHC@Home" alone) make a 'certificate' ourselves, but I think contacting CERN with this proposal is at least worth the shot...

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Future completion of the LHC (Message 12223)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by Doolanshire
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Well, even if LHC@Home dies, the LHC itself will be done one day or the other. It is, at least, safer to admit it will achieve a short-term result than, say, SETI.

What I ignore is the degree of implication between LHC@Home and the actual LHC project. In my humble opinion, the roughly 96 years of processor time racked up by LHC@Home users worldwide deserves at least a small token of recognition from the people involved in the actual making of the LHC. This recognition should not be an actual reward nor discriminate users depending on their actual number-crunching results (many people would love to contribute more but lack the resources to do so) but rather a symbolic pat on the shoulder to support our shared feeling that we're actually helping the guys out, if only a bit.

It's not that much to ask, really :)

Has this been considered or done in this or any other BOINC projects?

In the end, it would be as simple as coding a tiny app that added the names of the teams / users (and possibly their credits or the percentage of the total calculations done by them) to a PDF or HTML "certificate" file...

Then it's as simple as e-mailing them to the users or team leaders and voila, everyone's happy.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Future completion of the LHC (Message 12219)
Posted 21 Jan 2006 by Doolanshire
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Hello everyone :)

I am sure this has been asked before, but I have not found the matching thread, so I thought it would be licit for me to ask.

While all (or at least most) of us are here because we want to contribute to science and not because of a competition of any sort, I was thinking that it would be perhaps a great idea to e-mail, once the project is done, a kind of symbolic and printable certificate of participation to the users / teams involved, with a pretty font, a couple of shiny images and the only personalization of the name of the user / team involved.

It would be completely free, easily automated, and I'm VERY sure we would all feel a bit 'important' and 'proud' upon receiving such item in our e-mail inboxes.

Has this been suggested before? (I'm almost sure it has)




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