LHC and the Royal Society

Ye Nine Billion Names of God, short story by half a sea clerk. Here:
http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/9billion_clarke.html

 

That's from 'Nine billion names of god'

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IRTA "amok knees" and was envious.

 

Oy! We're only up to eight billion, nine hundred and ninety nine
million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and
seventy names so far, let's not be premature.

 

What makes you think that Clarke used Johny Foreigner's billions in 1953?
Wouldn't he have used proper Imperial billions?
A quick calculation shows that, assuming 10 seconds to write a name,
9 milliard names would take 10 men 10 years to complete, so it has to
be real billions.

 

An excellent point very well molished, I hang my head in shame.

 

Fuckoff, I was a) cunted and b) quoting from memory. It's a wonder I
even got the spelling right!

 

Nine billon rays!

 

Well, I'm about to go into work to see if I can restore some
LHC Grid computers that have apparently gone offline; we'll get back
to our original computing capacity shortly...

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Heh.

 

ah, saved me the effort. Jolly good.

If anyone ever votes for best short story ever, that's got to come high on
the list.

 

what happens when they do that *after* the collider's running?

 

"The Short Short Story of Mankind", Steinbeck. But yeah, "9 Billion
Names Of God" is right up there.

 

I like the one that Asimov wrote, IIRC, during a live TV show,
about a pair of guys in a space station who complained that everything
they sent was disassembled and the destructions for molishment were never
clear, so the ground base said, "OK, we'll send you up a robot with
the knowledge of how to molish any machine ever mase." Great! They waited
in anticipation for the next rocket delivery, opened the robot's box and...
I bet you can guess the punchline!

Found it, "Insert Knob A in Hole B"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_Knob_A_in_Hole_B -- can only find the
story itself on malware (i.e. p2p) sites.

 

Same thing as happens now -- jobs get shunted off to other sites.
That's one of the main rationales behind Grid computing. We're Tier 2
so mainly for researchers to analyse data collected and skimmed at Tier 0,
then shipped off for processing and staorage at the Tier 1s.

www.gridpp.ac.uk
-- some of you might find http://gridportal.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/rtm/ interesting

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Damn. I was hoping it might be more widely distributed so I could
contribute some, like the other Grids.
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Being as seti is backlogged to hellangone (the upload server experambulated
it's toys over the weekend, resulting in backlogs and filling-up of discs
and making everything come to an inglorious halt) I thought I'd look at
climateprediction.net again.

trouble is, the CP tuits take inordinate amounts of memory (about 30% of
2GB) and processing, making the cooling jbex like hootery to keep up - and
it won't run 2 'cos they'd eat all the spare memory, so they take turns.

All in all, it needs a VERY capable mahcine, and even then, I suspect the
increased load would make it dubious in the "spare capacity" stakes. I've
already noted, on the machine that has the power monitor in circuit, that
running 2 seti tuits takes an extra 35W or so.

I've not looked at other options. But climateprediction looks to be a bit
too resource-hungry for my taste.