Muon1, a 2012 Retrospective

A little late, but I thought I’d bring you the breakdown of results for Muon1 through 2012. Better late than never though, so here are the highs and lows of 2012 for the Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Project.

To start with, let’s start with the stats. The weekly stats continue to be published every Tuesday, and the start and end points this year for this piece are 3 January 2012 to 1 January 2013.

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.

2011, A Muon1 Odyssey

2011 has been an interesting year for Muon1. It’s had a massive explosion in processing power, and reached a few milestones. Meanwhile we’ve closed out the two lattices that were running at the beginning of the year, started and finished 4 more and have 2 open and active.

It’s been a busy year, all in all.

30 Million BILLION Particle Timesteps

Yes, we've done it. A little over 6 months ago, we hit 25 quadrillion (as in million, billion, trillion, quadrillion) and today, December 29th at around 4am UK time, it hit 30 Million-Billion.

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 They've been replaced by tweaks named Linac900Ext6X and Linac900Ext10tc2.