LHC & Boinc

[Mike Bertelson]

I don't know if any of you run BOINC, but the Large Hadron Collider is now accepting people for LHC@Home.

If you're not familar with Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), it's distributed computing.

Just like a large, multi-processor super computer. Very, very cool. :cool:

Your machine will download workunits and upload results.

There are plenty of projects ranging from climate prediction to large protein chain prediction. The Boinc site has a complete list.

Since math/physics are hobbies of mine, I crunch for SETI@home crunching data from Arecibo and the VLA, Einstein@Home crunching from the LIGOs, and now for LHC@Home which will crunch the collider data. LHC is up but doesn't have any work units.

I have no affiliation with UC Berkeley or any of the projects. I just think it's a cool and it doesn't take a lot of my time. Maybe my machine will crunch that workunit from the Arecibo with a message from Vega or discover gravity waves from the LIGO at MIT.....hey, ya never know...:grin:

Does anyone run Boinc?

Mike
Some links:
BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/)
LHC@Home (http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/)SETI@home (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/)
Einstein@Home (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/)
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory(LIGO) (http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/)

[barryb]

Does anyone run Boinc?



Yes. I go way back before there was Boinc. I have several "candidate" signals to my name from running Seti@home.

Thanks for the tip on LHC!

[Mike Bertelson]

Yes. I go way back before there was Boinc. I have several "candidate" signals to my name from running Seti@home.

Thanks for the tip on LHC!
I ran SETI classic for a couple years before the switch to Boinc.

Never had a candidate signal though. Very Cool.

Mike

[Mike Bertelson]

I just added Milkyway@home to BOINC.

I now crunch for 4 projects.

Mike