Muon1 Results Broken Down

As the Muon1 Stats server has had a breakdown, and hasn't been updated for two weeks, it's been a good chance to look at the stats themselves, and break them down by lattice.

With no stats box to constantly update it every hour, it's given me a stable dataset to work with for once. It does make a nice change to be able to see the stats and not have them change within an hour. So, while this break is ongoing, I thought about a breakdown of past lattices and their contributions.

New lattice files - 7Xc2 & 9Xc2

Those of you paying attention to your clients on Friday would have notices that they were downloading new lattices, and finishing simulations more quickly. That’s because new lattices have been introduced. Also, the v4.44d client has also been finally put to rest. There will be no more lattices that allow it to be used, so after almost a year, the jitter-free 4.45 will finally be the ‘required’ client.

With the retirement of both Linac900Ext10tc2 and Linac900Ext9X we’re moving on to Linac900Ext7Xc2 and Linac900Ext9Xc2. Both are development improvements of previous lattices, and attempt to work on phase handling, as well as investigate new designs without being side-tracked by jitter.

November 2001 Overview

Normally, these things would have their own topics, but with one thing and another, I’ve been unable to get them done. There have been two things in November of note, about the project, so I’m going to cover both here. At the start of the month we hit 70 Million results, while at the end of the month, a new lattice was released

New Lattices Available - 6X and 10tc2

Today, the older lattices, Linac900Ext6Xc2 and Linac900Ext10td2 are retired. They were introduced in April 2011 and now, 3 months later, they've been retired. They've been replaced by tweaks named Linac900Ext6X and Linac900Ext10tc2.

Best Past Lattices

One of the more intriguing things about the Muon1 project is its modular structure. The underlying design is similar to a Lego set, with a core of a few different components altered to suit. This means that instead of redoing a new client for every change in project, a new lattice file, defining those building blocks is all it takes.