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[richard mitnick]

I have not been around SillyDog for quite a while. I regret that. However, there is just not much going on. The blogs have kept me busy, and the BOINC projects. Especially those running at CERN for the LHC.

There are now two projects for the LHC looking for crunchers.

"SixTrack" is the revitalized originaL LHC@home project, initially a dud, moved from CERN to U. London and basically dormant. Now, back at CERN with lots of work doing simulations of magnet tuning for the beamline to save waste in time and electricity.

LHC@home 2.0 is a brand new project. It only uses BOINC as its messenger. All the work is done in an Oracle VM (virtual machine) running Scientific Linux. It's a wee tough on Windows and Mac's, one needs to be perseverant. This project is in "beta'. This project simulates collision "events" at the four experiment centers. When it is running, the LHC produces something like 40 billion bits of data/second. Even if I am off, it is still huge beyond huge.

Anyone interested, we are in dire need of more crunchers to scale these projects up, in light of the re-design and re-build strengthening the beamline. There are posts about all of this at the ScienceSprings blog. They will ask you to visit http://lhcathome.cern.ch/ where you find links to each project. You can visit each project, look around, read some history, etc. We really are dying for help.

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[Antony]

Welcome back Richard.
the forum has been pretty quiet.

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[richard mitnick]

Antony-

Thanks for the note. You must be moving into Spring weather. I hope it is a good time for you.

>>RSM

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[Antony]

Despite a certain member likes to wrongly label me rushing for the latest Apple releases, I don't. Finally, I upgraded my main computer (the low-end Mac Pro) from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to OS X Lion (10.7.2). That's more than four months since the release of OS X Lion.

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[richard mitnick]

Antony-

2 hyper threaded six core Xeons and 48 gigs of any kind of memory is about the most powerful machine I have ever seen.

You know, I have to ask, are you crunching for any projects, at WCG, BOINC or Folding@home? I know some BOINC projects really worthy of your power.

Goodness, twelve threads, you could help many projects.

I will be buying a new machine in January, also hyper threaded six core but not Xeon, 12 gigs DRAM ( 1 gig per threaded recommended for crunching), and twin Nvidea GTX 580 (or better) graphics cards, liquid cooled. I am now crunching strictly CPU for 22 projects on 34 threads. Several of those projects have GPU crunching plus I will be adding GPUGrid which does a multiplicity of projects, all medical.

But, wow!! You could do great things, and, as you know, all in then background, never disturbing your active work.

Cheers.

>>RSM

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[Antony]

Thank you Richard.
It was following Don's purchase principle so in hope that the Mac Pro's useful lifetime could be longer.

My PS3 is on Folding@home, apart from using it for recording TV shows. I will check those crunching projects tonight.

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[Antony]

I hope Richard will be happy to know that I am now crunching for numbers.

I am now using 1200% of my CPU on crunching numbers.


And the CPU usage:


It's the GIMPS project: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.

Well, I have a bit of story:
I was always interested in numbers. When I was in high school, I came across something called “perfect number” in the library, and I, for unknown reason, was fascinated about it.
Unlike today's lucky American kids, we were not allowed to use graphic calculator (nor programmable calculator), I borrowed a programmable calculator from math teacher and tried to find perfect numbers.
I found a few, until batteries dead.

Oh, perfect numbers are closely related to Mersenne primes.
Unlike today's lucky kids, It was before the internet and Wikipedia.

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[richard mitnick]

Antony-

Very nice. I recently went on that same project on four machines.

>>RSM

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[beanboy89]

Graduated college yesterday. Got my bachelor's in environmental geography.

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[Antony]

Congratulations! You worked hard for the degree.

I hope you have enjoyed your university life.

(For the record, Antony is old. He completed his Bachelor's degree in last century. Also Antony was poor, he did not attend the graduation ceremony.)

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[Antony]

First post for 2012.

This morning, after driving to Darling Harbour for a quick photo, I turned into the wrong way back. Since I got into the wrong way, I decided to take a quick stop at a local shopping centre which I need some cleaning products from supermarket.

Upon entering the shopping centre, I realised it was a bit too early for shopping centre. As a matter of fact, this was my first time in shopping centre before 10am during weekday. I was really surprised that the shopping centre had reasonable amount of people before general stores open at 10am. (Coffee shops and supermarkets open earlier.) There are mostly two categories of people there. The first category is seniors, and the other category is mothers and their babies. I then told myself that I shall salute to those mothers for training their babies for one of the most important tasks in life... window shopping!

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[Antony]

In a rather boring printed bulletin, which I always find it annoying to read as it uses unnecessary amount of UPPERCASE, bold, underline on absolutely unnecessary part.

They do have an Obituary (death) section. Somehow, I never noticed the more joyful Births and Marriages being mentioned in that boring bulletin.

The following (circled) part made my day:

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[natsuto]

Two college classes, I have my high school last year. I need more, but my school only offers two. On American history and ENG101.

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[iJohnE]

Hey guys, what's up? I haven't been here in a while. Sorry about that.

-High school is almost over, I am counting the days.
-Economics on a college level = confusing as hell.
-Getting a new laptop!
-Tennis season started, weather has been AMAZING. Oh and did I mention I have a sunburn in march?

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[richard mitnick]

Hey John-

So, what's up for you after graduation?

>>RSM

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