The Muon1 Distributed Particel Accelerator Design Project proudly announces that today, at 14:03UTC, it reached the 25 quadrillionen (25,000,000,000,000,000) particle timesteps milestone. Yoyo@home users provided 14.6% of it. The project, which uses genetic algorithm methods, rather
than the more usual 'brute force' methods, is attempting to design the
best particle accelerator sections possible. It is part of the Neutrino
Factory project, based out of the Rutherford Appleton Lab, in near
Oxford, UK. See the full press release here.