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05-26-15, 03:50 PM
Dear volunteers,

First of all we would like to warmly thank all the volunteers how have contributed to the ATLAS@home project; below a few news and prospects for the next weeks.

o The BOINC server is experiencing load issues since several days which are being addressed by CERN IT. It is hoped that a the situation will be back to normal in the next days.

o BOINC results have passed ATLAS validation. It took longer than expected for various reasons : a dedicated sophisticated procedure has been developed to ensure that statistically BOINC simulation does not introduce any bias, in the course of the validation procedure several issues were found in the validation tools themselves. Now we are happy to announce that BOINC is fully validated for ATLAS simulation.

o As you may know, the LHC is about to deliver collisions at an increased energy. We have stopped submitting WUs, waiting for the queue of tasks to drain. In the next days, a new version of the ATLAS simulation will be used and a campaign of simulation corresponding to the new accelerator conditions will be launched. We shall keep you informed!

o Taking advantage of the new simulation campaign, a updated version of the vboxwrapper will be introduced as well.

Again thank you to all of you for your contribution to the ATLAS simulation effort.

Regards

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