Arts@CERN announces 3 new awards and reaches Asia

Geneva, 28 October 2014. CERN1 is announcing today a new Collide @ CERN2 residency award in cultural partnership with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, as well as two Accelerate @ CERN awards3 with the Ministry of Culture for Taiwan and the Austrian Federal Chancellery. All are part of the Arts @ CERN programme, which was initiated by CERN in 2011.
“Our creative engagement with the fields of the arts has created exceptional international interest and support and we are proud to be continuing our programme with new partners from Europe to Asia,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. “With Arts @ CERN, we are demonstrating how science is a fundamental part of culture in the widest sense.”
This is the first year of the Pro Helvetia4 Collide @ CERN residency award, and it will be devoted to artists from any art discipline who wish to create a project that engages with the artistic, interactive and connective potential of the worldwide web, which this year celebrated its 25th anniversary. The award, for artists or designers who live, work or were born in Switzerland, consists of a residency of 3 months at CERN with a stipend of 15,000 CHF funded by Pro Helvetia. The open call begins today and will close on 27 February 2015.
The Ministry of Culture for Taiwan and the Austrian Federal Chancellery are also marking their countries’ unique contributions to culture by sponsoring individual Accelerate @ CERN one-month research awards in different art forms.

Imo, the CERN press office could release a bit more of the scientific details...

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If you go to CERN Courier you'll find all scientific details, and also biographies of scientists both living and dead.
Tullio

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If you go to CERN Courier you'll find all scientific details, and also biographies of scientists both living and dead.
Tullio

Thanx Tullio, the press office sure released a lot of achievements lately:)

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It's a pity they never mention what do at BOINC on CERN data. Recently we achieved 3% of all ATLAS simulations. The rest is done by supercomputers on the CERN grid, which is worldwide and our results are compared with those of the grid. They seem to coincide.
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It's a pity they never mention what do at BOINC on CERN data. Recently we achieved 3% of all ATLAS simulations. The rest is done by supercomputers on the CERN grid, which is worldwide and our results are compared with those of the grid. They seem to coincide.
Tullio

If I had more computer power I'd want to crunch on that data, something to ponder over for the future.

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It's a pity they never mention what do at BOINC on CERN data. Recently we achieved 3% of all ATLAS simulations. The rest is done by supercomputers on the CERN grid, which is worldwide and our results are compared with those of the grid. They seem to coincide.
Tullio

If I had more computer power I'd want to crunch on that data, something to ponder over for the future.

I've tried, but there is an issue with BOINC and the VM. It seems that every W/U launches another instance of the VM. As the VM itself uses four threads, it rapidly overloads the machine. May be okay for a box that just crunches, but it destroys all responsiveness in a box you use for other things. Also the W/U's are large up/down loads. This may result in all your bandwidth being hogged and other machines slowing down waiting for the internet. Finally there is a lot of RPC traffic on the loopback between BOINC and the VM and the VM and the W/U. Should not be a problem, but all that traffic is handled by the O/S which may slow other things on the machine. As to that traffic I've had BOINC become unable to command the VM on several occasions, which may require you to stop BOINC. I'm not trashing the project, just saying it does not crunch like Seti and you may need to adjust your BOINC settings.

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It's a pity they never mention what do at BOINC on CERN data. Recently we achieved 3% of all ATLAS simulations. The rest is done by supercomputers on the CERN grid, which is worldwide and our results are compared with those of the grid. They seem to coincide.
Tullio

If I had more computer power I'd want to crunch on that data, something to ponder over for the future.

I've tried, but there is an issue with BOINC and the VM. It seems that every W/U launches another instance of the VM. As the VM itself uses four threads, it rapidly overloads the machine. May be okay for a box that just crunches, but it destroys all responsiveness in a box you use for other things. Also the W/U's are large up/down loads. This may result in all your bandwidth being hogged and other machines slowing down waiting for the internet. Finally there is a lot of RPC traffic on the loopback between BOINC and the VM and the VM and the W/U. Should not be a problem, but all that traffic is handled by the O/S which may slow other things on the machine. As to that traffic I've had BOINC become unable to command the VM on several occasions, which may require you to stop BOINC. I'm not trashing the project, just saying it does not crunch like Seti and you may need to adjust your BOINC settings.

My computer shut down for no reason twice already this evening, 3 years old this one, if you ain't got the cash, you ain't got any computing power man! And I'm sure as hell getting my quadcore back at my granddads!

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I am running ATLAS on my new PC with a 4-core CPU and 8 GB RAM. It can run two ATLAS tasks and one vLHC task simultaneously. ATLAS downloads 4 tasks but I suspend 2. I've suggested the ATLAS people to put a limit of 2 tasks/host like vLHC does but other people, with more cores protested.
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It's a pity they never mention what do at BOINC on CERN data. Recently we achieved 3% of all ATLAS simulations. The rest is done by supercomputers on the CERN grid, which is worldwide and our results are compared with those of the grid. They seem to coincide.
Tullio

If I had more computer power I'd want to crunch on that data, something to ponder over for the future.

I've tried, but there is an issue with BOINC and the VM. It seems that every W/U launches another instance of the VM. As the VM itself uses four threads, it rapidly overloads the machine. May be okay for a box that just crunches, but it destroys all responsiveness in a box you use for other things. Also the W/U's are large up/down loads. This may result in all your bandwidth being hogged and other machines slowing down waiting for the internet. Finally there is a lot of RPC traffic on the loopback between BOINC and the VM and the VM and the W/U. Should not be a problem, but all that traffic is handled by the O/S which may slow other things on the machine. As to that traffic I've had BOINC become unable to command the VM on several occasions, which may require you to stop BOINC. I'm not trashing the project, just saying it does not crunch like Seti and you may need to adjust your BOINC settings.

My computer shut down for no reason twice already this evening, 3 years old this one, if you ain't got the cash, you ain't got any computing power man! And I'm sure as hell getting my quadcore back at my granddads!

Dual core 6 year old laptop with 3 gig of RAM has no problem running it on a single core here. Some things though, it's very disk heavy for several minutes when the VM is starting up (computer becomes a little slow to respond), and the initial download can slow your internet for a bit (pages can take much longer to load). Once it's going though I don't notice anything.

Additionally set the task switching thing in bionc to a ridiculously high number so it can start and finish in one go, it has an occasional habit of continuing to run when bionc switches tasks. With that and another task, say of Seti running, my computer became utterly unresponsive and it takes an eternity to manually suspend things to get back control.

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I would suggest anybody who wants to try a virtualized BOINC project to start with another CERN project, vLHC@home. It runs also on 32-bit OS and needs much less memory, only 256 MB. It is also limited to 2 tasks/host, so people cannot overload their PCs having less than 8 GB RAM.
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I am running ATLAS on my new PC with a 4-core CPU and 8 GB RAM. It can run two ATLAS tasks and one vLHC task simultaneously. ATLAS downloads 4 tasks but I suspend 2. I've suggested the ATLAS people to put a limit of 2 tasks/host like vLHC does but other people, with more cores protested.
Tullio

Which simply means we need a switch for that in BOINC that the user can set.

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"C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\atlasathome.cern.ch\app_config.xml"

<app_config>
<app>
<name>ATLAS</name>
<max_concurrent>6</max_concurrent>
</app>
</app_config>
Written by Toby Broom. I copied it.
Tullio

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Fabiola Gianotti, the spokeswoman of the ATLAS experiment, has been nominated Director General of CERN starting in January 2016, after Rolf-Dieter Heuer.
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Thanx for the update Tullio:)

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Have the article here:)

CERN Council selects next Director-General

Geneva, 4 November 2014. At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN1 Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General. The appointment will be formalised at the December session of Council, and Dr Gianotti’s mandate will begin on 1 January 2016 and run for a period of five years. Council rapidly converged in favour of Dr Gianotti.

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Julie i know this is the wrong place and should be in crunching but is it the I5 computer as i notice it's running a old copy of Bionic 7.0.28 maybe you need to update it ? and the nvidia driver too seeing as that one has 314 version i would try a later version but not 340 thou as it has caused a few problems .

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Julie i know this is the wrong place and should be in crunching but is it the I5 computer as i notice it's running a old copy of Bionic 7.0.28 maybe you need to update it ? and the nvidia driver too seeing as that one has 314 version i would try a later version but not 340 thou as it has caused a few problems .

Ok, I'll look into it tonight. Thanx for the tip Glenn! I

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Higgs??

Maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle after all

Last year CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone.

Many calculations indicate that the particle discovered last year in the CERN particle accelerator was indeed the famous Higgs particle. Physicists agree that the CERN experiments did find a new particle that had never been seen before, but according to an international research team, there is no conclusive evidence that the particle was indeed the Higgs particle.

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-wasnt-higgs-particle.html

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From CERN Courier, November:
ATLAS
Otherwise Fabiola would get mad. She was the ATLAS spokesperson and now will become Director General.
Tullio

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From CERN Courier, November:
ATLAS
Otherwise Fabiola would get mad. She was the ATLAS spokesperson and now will become Director General.
Tullio

Interesting reading, Tullio. Thanks :)

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