Projektnews LHC@home: Status, March 2014

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First, in reply to a recent query about 2014 workload, thanks to Msssimo:
"The majority of the 2014 studies will be devoted to LHC upgrade and the rest to understand the nominal
machine. I do not expect any increase in workload when approaching the LHC re-start in 2015, on the
other hand, we will all be locked up in the control room and the resources for performing the
simulations will be reduced."

Second, we have been experiencing major problems with our
Windows executables for several months now.
There are "small" result differences between Windows and Linux.
After extensive testing I believe they are due to the Windows
ifort compiler. This will be verified and fixed as soon as I
return to CERN next week. In addition new builds of SixTrack
for Windows, which now include a call boinc_unzip, are failing
on Windows in at least two ways; there is a problem parsing the
hardware description (/proc/cpuinfo on Linux) and secondly we
get "cannot Create Process" errors. So, we shall first try and
build without the hopefully resposible call, and fix the result
differences. We can then resume development of the case splitting
to smaller WUs and the return of all results.

It is great that your support continues and, when required, we have
lots of capacity. Saw a new record of over 140,000 WUs in
process a couple of weeks ago. Eric.

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