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Friday, 12 September 2008 09:03Won't be around this weekend, except MAYBE on AIM on my phone for a little bit. It's my brother's Ring Weekend (where they get their class rings and have a hop to celebrate) this weekend, so I'll be in New York.
I could have brought my laptop, but I decided against it because I probably won't be anything short of exhausted while I'm at the hotel. That, and I'm running BOINC.
For those of you who live under rocks and don't know about BOINC, it's a program that turns any computer connected to the internet into part of a group computer that can run calculations at the same rate as any of the large supercomputers (rough summary here, I'm not a computer geek).
If you're like me, and worried about what the LHC could do if something goes wrong, I recommend joining LHC@home using BOINC. The entire purpose of LHC@home is to use the power of many computers worldwide to run all the simulations and equations they need to do to calculate their experiments in a fraction of the time it would take if they were limited to the supercomputers and scientific computers. The more they can calculate, the less likely it is that something will go wrong. I urge those of you who can do so to give this program a try.
I could have brought my laptop, but I decided against it because I probably won't be anything short of exhausted while I'm at the hotel. That, and I'm running BOINC.
For those of you who live under rocks and don't know about BOINC, it's a program that turns any computer connected to the internet into part of a group computer that can run calculations at the same rate as any of the large supercomputers (rough summary here, I'm not a computer geek).
If you're like me, and worried about what the LHC could do if something goes wrong, I recommend joining LHC@home using BOINC. The entire purpose of LHC@home is to use the power of many computers worldwide to run all the simulations and equations they need to do to calculate their experiments in a fraction of the time it would take if they were limited to the supercomputers and scientific computers. The more they can calculate, the less likely it is that something will go wrong. I urge those of you who can do so to give this program a try.
