Posts by Richard Mitnick

41) Message boards : LHC@home Science : So, what\\\'s up with LHC@home? (Message 21745) Posted 11 Dec 2009 by Richard Mitnick Post: So, the LHC is up and running, lots of news from their weblogs. What about work for this project? Thanks.
42) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Large Hadron Collider turned on... (Message 21661) Posted 21 Nov 2009 by Richard Mitnick Post: If and when there is work in this project, it is important to get the news into the RSS feed. For reasons based in the inscrutable workings of the BOINC software, it is advised that we be detached from projects with no work. So, we will need to know to re-attach. Thanks. >>RSM
43) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Great TV program on LHC on the Science Channel HD (Message 20847) Posted 4 Dec 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: So, recently, there was a great program on LHC on the Science Channel HD in the USA. Brian Cox is the guide. Brian "eats the camera" as they say. I missed the TV, a friend told me about it. But, I found it in chunks, five 9 minute chunks, on YouTube. There is a bookmarklet for Firefox and IE to download and save YouTube videos as .mp4. So that's easy. Then, I stitched the chunks together with some video software. The breaks catch Brian literally in the middle of a word. But in the stitched file, one hardly even notices. Due obeisance is paid to Fermi Labs, where Brian was for three years. Also, at the end, passing references to string theory. This is worth the work. I checked my LHC@home WU results, on two dual core machines, over 160 successful results, a few redundant results. Not too bad. >>RSM
44) Message boards : Number crunching : Slow this train down (Message 20242) Posted 12 Sep 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: HI, yes, I know, I was through that when I first attached to the project. Also, I just looked at my results on the two machines running this project. I was very relieved to see what looks to me to be a whole big bunch of successful completions. >>RSM
45) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Congratulations on the start up! (Message 20223) Posted 11 Sep 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: This is just the greatest thrill! I have been enamored of C.E.R.N. since Timothy Ferris brought it to U.S. Public Television in \"Creation of the Universe\". Just the heartiest congratulations. And to think: all of this could have been going on here in Texas if our Congress had any brains.
46) Message boards : Number crunching : Slow this train down (Message 20222) Posted 11 Sep 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: Whoah, Nelly- Maybe some things need to be slowed a bit. I all of a sudden got 3 WU\'s, all six track, on each of two machines. But, on one machine, they all died out really fast. two in 14 minutes, 1 in just a few seconds. Then, bang, I got three more, and different, on the machine with the good WU\'s. Both Core 2 Duos, so one is right now running two WU\'s. Delighted to see the action, this is my favoriet of all of my projects. But, you know, we all want to be in a position to do good work. This is not a question of questioning the merit of one machine. Both machines have a good number of successes. >>RSM
47) Message boards : Cafe LHC : LHC@home T-shirt (Message 20154) Posted 10 Sep 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: HOw do I get a couple of the LHC@home T-Shirts?? >>RSM
48) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Garrett Lisi article in New Yorker, July 21, 2008 issue (Message 19809) Posted 18 Jul 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: Benjamin Wallace-Wells has had an article published in the July 21, 2008 issue of The New Yorker about Garrett Lisi, a theoretical physicist, who will join the efforts at LHC. Lisi goes up against string theorists with his Theory of Everything which in no way can I describe, but which may be a major lurch forward in the search for a unified theory. There is as of yet no link for the article. There is a link to his major first paper, http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0711/0711.0770v1.pdf Which is pretty incomprehensible for anyone but a trained physicist. My aim in bring this to the LHC@home community is to make those who can comprehend this material aware of the New Yorker article. >>RSM
49) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Still some time for this project? (Message 19767) Posted 5 Jul 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: So, Alex's note today about server software would allow one to infer that there is life left in this project. Beyond LHC going on line? I was previously left wit the impression that the data stream produced by the project once LHC was on line would be beyond the beyond for any @home equipment, and that the project would just die. Was that a wrong impression?
50) Message boards : Number crunching : New article on LHC (Message 19745) Posted 29 Jun 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: New A/P article on LHC http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international-28/121466994477480.xml&storylist=topstories Remember to re-assemble the URL. >>RSM
51) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Interesting mp3 download or podcast on LHC (Message 19656) Posted 23 May 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: Kurt Anderson, Studio 360, from WNYC, New York has this interesting not to heavy podcast which you can download. LHC takes up the first 23 minutes. http://audio.wnyc.org/studio/studio052308e.mp3 >>RSM
52) Message boards : LHC@home Science : LHC in the News (Message 19624) Posted 15 May 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/09/physics.nima/index.html Another journalist who can't get it together and give credit to BOINC and the @home crunchers aiding in this project. >>RSM
53) Message boards : Number crunching : What happens to us when LHC goes live? (Message 19482) Posted 18 Apr 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: So, we are getting closer to the start-up, when ever that will be. At that point, what happens to the project? Are we done? I hope that we are still able to contribute something.
54) Message boards : LHC@home Science : C.E.R.N. and LHC in National Geographics Mag (Message 19026) Posted 16 Feb 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: I forgot that I could get a link to the article. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/god-particle/achenbach-text >>RSM
55) Message boards : LHC@home Science : C.E.R.N. and LHC in National Geographics Mag (Message 19025) Posted 16 Feb 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: Sometimes I wonder why I still subscribe to National Geographic Magazine. Then, there will be an article of great interest: The March 2008 issue has an article, "At the Heart of All Matter-The Hunt for the God Particle". Not to shabby. Not that LHC@home is mentioned, but hey, check it out. >>RSM
56) Message boards : Number crunching : To completion times for new tasks (Message 19021) Posted 14 Feb 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: Interesting things going on. I also at first saw WUs showing 100,000 turns, and then a shift to 1,000,000 turns. Now, I just got a WU at 100,000 turns again. I was told, when I asked about the million turns WU's that they were simulations of what would actually go on in the collider. Is it possible that the hundred-thousand turns are tests of this software, regarding stuff like "crashing into walls" errors? Or, if anyone knows what is going on, I, for one, would like to know. I mean, I am just happy that this project is active. I have a long and abiding love for C.E.R.N. >>RSM
57) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Why only one result (Message 18876) Posted 24 Jan 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: O.K., I now have had two successful tasks on each of my two computers. I have three failures, possibly from the "crashing into walls" business. What I would like to know is, when these simulations run as tasks via BOINC, and when they fail, are we testing the simulation process in BOINC, which is certainly fine with me, or, are we testing simulations of tasks that will actually go into the LHC? >>RSM
58) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Why only one result (Message 18865) Posted 21 Jan 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: Hey- Things are looking up. I now have 4 successes out of seven tasks. >>RSM
59) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Why only one result (Message 18860) Posted 21 Jan 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: Why not start the credit calculations at ...say...50, instead of zero. That way you get some credit for running one that crashes into the walls. Afterall, that's good to know....right? It's not like we can do anything with the credits. I can't cash them in for Linden dollars in Second Life can I? I would be nice to look at the stats tab and see at least a little bump every couple of weeks. I understand the need to volunteer even if at first there are all of the failures. If you believe in the LHC as a scientific endeavor, then whatever happens with our tasks is a help. I personally am fascinated by the work at C.E.R.N. since 1985. So, I am delighted to be on this project. If you go to http://www.allprojectstats.com and visit the LHC forum, there are links to videos about C.E.R.N. and LHC, even Dr Higgs himself. >>RSM
60) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Why only one result (Message 18851) Posted 18 Jan 2008 by Richard Mitnick Post: I missed erred in the URL for the videos, left out a character. Should be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJPMfnz2E Sorry. >>RSM

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