Tag: General

  • Are any of my personal data sent to CERN when I install the software?

    Are any of my personal data sent to CERN when I install the software? You will only have to provide a user name and an e-mail, nothing else is required. The information that is sent about your machine is the hardware specifications: CPU type, RAM and disk space, OS version, etc. More details about the

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  • Why contribute to LHC@home?

    Why contribute to LHC@home? By contributing to LHC@home, you are helping physicists who seek fundamental answers about our Universe. Your computing contributions are used to improve the instruments used by particle physicists at CERN to perform better experiments in the future.

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  • VM applications are not working.

    VM applications are not working. See Yeti’s check list in the forums.

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  • What is the specification for each application?

    What is the specification for each application? Here are the memory and disk requirements for running a single task of an application. Sixtrack Requires 512MB of RAM and 1GB of free hard disk space. Theory Requires 630MB of RAM and 3GB of free hard disk space ( 0.8GB uncompressed disk image size ) plus ~1GB

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  • Can I run LHC@home projects offline?

    Can I run LHC@home projects offline? See the forum thread here: http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/forum_thread.php?id=1681. In a nutshell: You will need to have an open internet connection while running project tasks. You cannot run the tasks if not connected to the internet. The task starts up a VM, then the VM runs a series of tasks that each

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  • Where can I find help?

    Where can I find help? See Contact Us where you’ll find links to the forums, the Q&A for each project, and a contact form if you’re really stuck. We have a great community that will try to help you.

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  • Why are we using desktop computers instead of the Grid?

    Why are we using desktop computers instead of the Grid? The computing needs of the LHC, especially when it comes to comparing various theories with experimental results, are enormous. Basically, the physicists' appetite for computing power expands to fill all available resources, because there are always more theories to test than there are computers to

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  • What do I need to participate in LHC@home?

    What do I need to participate in LHC@home? You need a computer connected to the Internet with at least 512MB of RAM and 9GB of free hard disk space. It can run Windows, MacOSX or Linux. To run any of our LHC@home applications, you will need to install BOINC. For other applications than Sixtrack, you

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  • Does LHC@home support GPUs?

    Does LHC@home support GPUs? For the moment LHC@home does not use GPUs for running the experiments. Additionally, the GPU code could not work as we are accessing the hardware via a virtual machine.

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  • Is it possible to configure the maximum amount of data that can be downloaded/uploaded by the project per month?

    Is it possible to configure the maximum amount of data that can be downloaded/uploaded by the project per month? The BOINC transfer at most network preference is not supported for the moment. If your ISP has a limitation in the bandwidth that you can use each month, bear in mind that the virtual machine will

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