Posts by dulcimoo

1) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Whatever happened to LHC@home....apologies and thanks. (Message 22497) Posted 26 Aug 2010 by dulcimoo Post: Things change fast in the IT world. Once I botched a possible career in IBM by saying that I wanted to use UNIX. Nah, they said, that is only for students... Tullio Real IBM programmers write in PL/I (Complex ones also).
2) Message boards : Number crunching : So, what ARE we doing ... ? (Message 22262) Posted 23 Apr 2010 by dulcimoo Post: From my understanding we are helping them \\\"tune\\\" the magnets and such [via simulation] so that the LHC can do more work faster and they have less time \\\"tuning\\\" to make things work well. We are an operations utility rather than a research adjunct. The work is important, but not core research. The fact that the LHC has started to return results so soon after the restart shows that what we do works!
3) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Large Hadron Collider turned on... (Message 21649) Posted 21 Nov 2009 by dulcimoo Post: Don\\\'t hold your breath... Now I wanna see some projects and WU\\\\\\\'s comin\\\\\\\' the way of my American butt :p This SHOULD have been the SSC. But wait we Americans don\\\'t need Science - we have the Bible!
4) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Particles are back in the LHC! (Message 21583) Posted 31 Oct 2009 by dulcimoo Post: I don\'t think LHC@home is going to process any actual data. If the beams are not running as expected or they need to tune a mag or something perhaps, but all the science data is going to be dealt with on site.
5) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC@home - Out of Tasks? (Message 20969) Posted 13 Jan 2009 by dulcimoo Post: The tasks are very \"bursty\". The have them in bunches, so if you only look every few days you could miss them. When you do manage to get one, make it the top priority to get processed - they only credit 60% of the WU distributed, the rest are redundant and get no credits.
6) Message boards : Cafe LHC : No new tasks??? (Message 20876) Posted 22 Dec 2008 by dulcimoo Post: They don\'t send tasks often. Right now there are a few tasks left, just over 1000. Be quick or wait until next time. I hope you get some tasty tasks. Umm. I have the priority of LHC set 10:1 over any other project. It seems to help. I just got a few tasks for my Mac virtual windows 2K system.
7) Message boards : LHC@home Science : What really goes on (Message 20692) Posted 23 Oct 2008 by dulcimoo Post: ]:8P That\'s in the US not at CERN. Maybe that\'s what we did rather than build the SSC?!
8) Message boards : LHC@home Science : work units (Message 20574) Posted 1 Oct 2008 by dulcimoo Post: I hope you were lucky and got some. Umm tasty!
9) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Q: LHC vs Cosmic Rays (Message 20344) Posted 14 Sep 2008 by dulcimoo Post: One of the arguments for the LHC not killing us all is that Cosmic rays have already done this \\\\\\\"experiment\\\\\\\" and have created blackholes and we are still here. So here is my question: In terms of energy how powerful are Cosmic rays in relationship to the LHC? Same Power, 5X more powerful, 100X, whatever. If someone could answer this so I can add so numbers to my arguments I would appreciate it. Thank you in advance... ... I have some numberson the cosmic ray side which might help ... \\\\\\\"[ultra high energy cosmic rays] They are 100 million times more energetic than anything produced by particle smashers on Earth.\\\\\\\" and \\\\\\\"Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays are considered to be those above about 1 billion billion electron volts (1 times 10 to the 18th power). The most energetic cosmic ray ever found was detected over Utah in 1991 and carried an energy of 300 billion billion electron volts (3 times 10 to the 20th power).\\\\\\\" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uou-rcr032008.php Another site quotes: \\\\\\\"Most galactic cosmic rays have energies between 100 MeV ... and 10 GeV (corresponding to 99.6% of the speed of light). The number of cosmic rays with energies beyond 1 GeV decreases by about a factor of 50 for every factor of 10 increase in energy. Over a wide energy range the number of particles per m2 per steradian per second with energy greater than E (measured in GeV) is given approximately by N(>E) = k(E + 1)-a, where k ~ 5000 per m2 per steradian per second and a ~1.6. The highest energy cosmic rays measured to date have had more than 1020 eV, equivalent to the kinetic energy of a baseball traveling at approximately 100 mph!\\\\\\\" http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/dick/cos_encyc.html So how does this range of 10^10eV - 10^20eV compare with LHC collisions at full power?
10) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC@Home on Mac ? (Message 20337) Posted 14 Sep 2008 by dulcimoo Post: I run windows 2000 under parallels and it works quite well. You could run linux under parallels if you wanted and perhaps get better performance. I installed parallels because I needed it for another application, but for LHC but it works well. XP is probably the best OS for parallels but I had an old copy of W2K so it was the most expedient option for me. I run parallels in \\\"coherence\\\" mode which give me access to the windows applications and mac desktop at the same time. My virtual windows system has been in operation since 15 Aug 08 and has processed 320 units of work. This is what it looks like to BOINC: 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Starting BOINC client version 5.10.45 for windows_intelx86 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Data directory: C:\\\\Program Files\\\\BOINC 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 10] 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Processor features: fpu tsc sse mmx 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|OS: Microsoft Windows 2000: Professional Edition, Service Pack 4, (05.00.2195.00) 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Memory: 1023.55 MB physical, 1.28 GB virtual 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Disk: 46.87 GB total, 38.22 GB free 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Local time is UTC -7 hours 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|lhcathome\|URL: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/; Computer ID: 9705626; location: home; project prefs: default 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|General prefs: from http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ (last modified 05-Jun-2008 21:03:17) 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Host location: none 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|General prefs: using your defaults 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when active to 511.78MB 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 921.20MB 9/13/2008 8:01:59 PM\|\|Preferences limit disk usage to 23.43GB
11) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Congratulations on the start up! (Message 20094) Posted 10 Sep 2008 by dulcimoo Post: At 10:28 CEST the first beam was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the LHC. Congratulation to everyone at CERN! Good job! Yeppie! 祝賀! Gelukwensen! Félicitations ! Congratulazioni! お祝い! 축하! Gratulacje! Felicitações! Поздравления! ¡Enhorabuena! Lyckönskan!
12) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Its all about theories... (Message 20031) Posted 8 Sep 2008 by dulcimoo Post: Theoretical, its all that it is. We don`t know much its all about theories, calculated from observations and theories from many scientific minds. In this case we can`t afford to be wrong,... anyone? Well given that Cosmic Rays have more energy and we are still here ... I would not worry. And if some \\\"strange\\\" things happen and the earth is destroyed well \\\"It\\\'s been fun!\\\"
13) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Hei~!Look at the following massage,the disaster seems have an order (Message 20011) Posted 6 Sep 2008 by dulcimoo Post: I believe that governments all over the world should increase their actual funds in Education to something like 90% of Anual Budget, and then perhaps less people would be saying things like this. Nonsense!! In the US most of the budget goes to \\\"entitlement\\\" programs ... Social Security, Welfare, and the like. Increasing funding to 90% of the budget would not do much except make for some really fat cat school board members. Yes increasing funding by some amount, say 2X-3X of current levels would do some good. 90% of the federal budget for education is just asking for waste and fraud.
14) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC@home for Mac OS X (Message 19901) Posted 11 Aug 2008 by dulcimoo Post: Damian - ah but you can... Look at this thread:http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=2592&nowrap=true#19900
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Any Mac work coming? (Message 19900) Posted 11 Aug 2008 by dulcimoo Post: My mac has successfully crunched away. Umm. Crunch Crunch Munch Munch. The sweet taste of simulated Hadrons. Ummm. Running LHC@home under windows 2000 under parallels under Mac OSX on a Mac Book Pro. Umm.
16) Questions and Answers : Wish list : A Macintosh OSX Client (Message 19856) Posted 1 Aug 2008 by dulcimoo Post: I'm running the lhc cliient on my macbook pro intel 2.2GHz D. How? By using an emulated windows 2000 system under parallels. I have 4 GB of RAM and a 320 GB hard drive. I needed the emulated windows client to run SYSTRAN sp I didn't do it JUST for LHC but as long as I had it ... No work units yet however.
17) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC: Satan's Stargate to Earth! (Message 19731) Posted 22 Jun 2008 by dulcimoo Post: To quote the video. "What a bunch of rubbish"
18) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC Countdown?? (Message 19715) Posted 12 Jun 2008 by dulcimoo Post: I don't think so - taken from that website: A clarification The countdown timer was set to the 15th of May because there was no definite time given for the actual activation, recent events show that CERN wont be dividing by zero until much later on in the year, so now the countdown timer will be reset again and will be continually tweaked to go by the latest info that CERN are releasing. So sorry to disappoint you all, but you wont be dying tomorrow. What's up with this? http://www.lhcountdown.com Is it a true countdown? eks EDIT: ops, sorry: http://www.lhcountdown.com/?p=7 And I didn't found a way to actually delete the post...
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Stand back....... (Message 19698) Posted 2 Jun 2008 by dulcimoo Post: After millenia of religious fighting... "We found [the] God [particle]!" In this case I don' think the []'s can be used; well they can't be used without more context. "After millenia of religious fighting ... we found G-d" is not quite the same as "After millenia of religious fighting we found the G-d particle". Because the first part is not quoted at all ... it may be assumed that it could be a different person saying that. Just my 2/100's of a Quatlu
20) Message boards : LHC@home Science : why are you going to slaughter us all, scientists? (Message 19685) Posted 28 May 2008 by dulcimoo Post: Stationary vs. Non-Stationary "quantum" black holes. It seems to me the experiment has probably already been done by Nature. In the billions of years the earth has been around you would have expected two cosmic rays to impact each other with a vector velocity that would allow the capture of the produced partials and or black hole by the gravitational field of the Earth. Just my 0.02 euro.

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