It's been a while and I'm not quite sure where we are at in our last goals but is there anything we should get at?
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It's been a while and I'm not quite sure where we are at in our last goals but is there anything we should get at?
We lost two places in DPAD/Muon1...
http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/v441f.zip
- - - [Science Aims] - - -
The experiment is called the Neutrino Factory, scheduled for construction some time from 2015. Its primary aim is to fire beams of neutrinos (fundamental particles) through the Earth's interior to detector stations on different continents. They're doing this to measure whether they change type en route (there are 3 types of neutrino) and data from this in turn will allow them to determine the neutrino's mass more accurately.
The reason they want to do this is that the neutrino is just about the most common particle in the universe (billions pass through your body every second) and its mass will influence such things as the evolution of the universe and the exact way matter was first formed in the 'big bang'. In fact, neutrinos make up one quarter of the types of matter particles specified in the current 'standard model' of physics. In order to progress to more advanced theories of physics, it is often crucial to know the properties of particles to high precision in order to distinguish between the slightly different predictions of alternative theories.
Actually the entire Neutrino Factory complex (estimated to cost at least $1.9bn) will have several scientific aims. The neutrinos are used for fundamental physics experiments, but the proton beam that is produced at the start (this hits the target rod at the beginning of the simulation you download) is also going to be used in experiments such as neutralising radioactive waste by transmuting the radioactive elements into stable ones, and providing a high intensity source of neutrons for 3D atomic microscopy. The muon beam that will be coming from the end of the section we are optimising can also be used as the basis for a 'muon collider', a machine that could produce the highest-energy collisions between fundamental particles ever made artificially.
You are simulating the part of the process where the proton beam hits the target rod and causes pions to be emitted, which decay into muons. These would then proceed to a storage ring and decay into electrons and the neutrinos that are used for experiments. This is a fairly critical part of the apparatus, which catches the pions and confines some of them into a beam while they decay. The efficiency of this dictates that of the entire machine because it is built of a lot of acceleration stages 'in series' with each other. Whether the project eventually gets funded to be built depends on what levels of performance can be achieved with the designs generated during the present R&D. However, users of this program have already doubled the estimated efficiency of one stage and more are to be optimised in the future.
how do you join the team?
This is a step by step DPAD installation:Quote:
Originally posted by black_civic55
how do you join the team?
Download page:
http://www.stephenbrooks.org/muon1/
Windows Client:
http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/v441f.zip
Setup the client:
1º - Extract the files into a folder
2º - Create a user.txt file with notepad and add the following line:
black_civic55[Free-DC.org]
3º - Open config.txt and setup the client options.
Quote:
Resolution: 1024x768
Priority for background running ("N"ormal, "L"ow, "B"ackground): B
Threads (number or 'auto'): auto
Auto-send results ([Y]es, [N]o): N
Auto-save interval (seconds; 0 for no save): 240
Rechecks for best-so-far results (min. 5): 5
Use passive (PASV) mode for FTP transfers: N
Download sample results file after a number of days (0=don't): 3
Sample file URL: http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/samplefiles/{lattice}_100.txt
FTP command call: ftp -s:script.ftp
Update lattice files from web every N hours (0=don't): 12
Use old FTP calling method (as pre-v4.34; can hang, but more compatible with ZoneAlarm): N
TrialType ratios: Mutate=3;Crossover=3;Interpolate=3;Extrapolate=3;M
uSpherical=3;MuOne=3;Extreme=1;LocalGrad=3;TopoSmo
oth=2;
Particles per extra thread (limits threading overhead): 100
4º - Run the client using muon1_cmdline.bat or muon1_background.exe. First one will run DPAD under a DOS box and the last one hidden, check taskmanager.
5º - If you have auto-send results off you have to send them manually using manualsend.bat.
The results are recorded in a file called results.txt.
6º - Stats pages:
http://www.stephenbrooks.org/muon1/?hide=1&teams=1
http://stats.free-dc.org/new/projpage.php?proj=dpad
http://dpad.tastats.com/team_stats.php
7º - Have fun!
Carlos
http://magmarmaxi.no-ip.info/users/a...ot/muoncmd.htm
You can run it in the tray with this to :)
Anybody really want to have a go at this? I could probably go til the end of September on both machines if there's any interest.
I don't think Bok would mind being helped in BOINC LHC. Also I noticed that we're way behind in BOINC Einstein@home.
Any other suggestions?