DPAD Daily user stats 05-10-08

[Assimilator1]

Local Teams output (Mpts) (No other teams are currently close to us in total points and output! ).

TA - 1,307,905 (~40 mill ahead!:Q*)
DPC - 253,027 (they given up??)

Prod Rank __ Team Rank __ Days Mpts ________ Total Mpts __________ Name
_1 _________ _1 _________ 532,170 _________ 969,678,288 _________ amd.borg
_2 _________ _2 _________ 346,911 _________ 297,406,127 _________ JonB
_3 _________ _6 _________ 153,859 _________ 83,925,979 _________ viztech
_4 _________ _4 _________ 100,325 _________ 120,379,372 _________ Amaroque
_5 _________ 11 _________ _ 90,665 _________ 24,598,721 _________ OrangeKid
_6 _________ _5 _________ _ 83,975 _________ 108,707,416 _________ Silverthorne

Active members over the past week - 9

[TA]amd.borg
[TA]JonB
[TA]Amaroque
[TA]Silverthorne
[TA]viztech
[TA]Assimilator1
[TA]OrangeKid
[TA]Petrusbroder
[TA]Pacemaker

DPAD stats collected from Free-DC ('yesterday' column).
Official TeAm stats from the DPAD site.

*amdborg did an awesome dump of over 24mill on the 4th! :shocked::beer:

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I produced 112k the day before this .

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the stats, Mark!
I am dumping soon ...

Edit: Oh, doh, I dumped some 10 hours ago. BTW, the DPAD site is up again!

 

[Assimilator1]

Thx Petrus:thumbsup:

Sad news about Amaroque , see here.

 

[JonB]

That is indeed sad about Amaroque. I never would have guessed because his account was still active in DPAD (maintaining 3rd place on our team and not around to enjoy it).

Peace be with you, Dustin.

 

[NorthernLights]

Originally posted by: JonB
That is indeed sad about Amaroque. I never would have guessed because his account was still active in DPAD (maintaining 3rd place on our team and not around to enjoy it).

Peace be with you, Dustin.

I'm running muon on my computer, Dustin put in on there a while back. Though I have absolutely no idea what it does. This is his sister by the way.

 

[amdxborg]

Very very sad news about Amaroque!

Thanx for the stats Assim1! Still looks like the cows are planning a couple of huge dumps in October.

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: NorthernLights

Originally posted by: JonB
That is indeed sad about Amaroque. I never would have guessed because his account was still active in DPAD (maintaining 3rd place on our team and not around to enjoy it).

Peace be with you, Dustin.

I'm running muon on my computer, Dustin put in on there a while back. Though I have absolutely no idea what it does. This is his sister by the way.

Hi, nice to see you here, (even if not under the best circumstances!).
Again, sorry to hear about your brother , I guess the least I can do is to give you a brief explanation of what DPAD does.

By using spare CPU power DPAD basically is simulating new designs of part of particle accelerators (& testing them) with the ultimate goal of making the most efficient design to produce muons. The following text which I've copied from DPADs site explains their useage.

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.

Hmm, that wasn't very brief! .