LHCHome: a BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN
Abstract: The LHC@Home BOINC project has provided computing capacity for numerical simulations to researchers at CERN since 2004, and has since 2011 been expanded with a wider range of applications. The traditional CERN accelerator physics simulation code SixTrack enjoys continuing volunteers support, and thanks to virtualisation a number of applications from the LHC experiment collaborations and particle theory groups have joined the consolidated LHC@Home BOINC project. This paper addresses the challenges related to traditional and virtualized applications in the BOINC environment, and how volunteer computing has been integrated into the overall computing strategy of the laboratory through the consolidated LHC@Home service. Thanks to the computing power provided by volunteers joining LHC@Home, numerous accelerator beam physics studies have been carried out, yielding an improved understanding of charged particle dynamics in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its future upgrades. The main results are highlighted in this paper.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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LHCHome: a BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN ; volume:7 ; number:1 ; year:2017 ; pages:379-393 ; extent:15
Open engineering ; 7, Heft 1 (2017), 379-393 (gesamt 15)
- Creator
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Barranco, Javier
Cai, Yunhai
Cameron, David
Crouch, Matthew
Maria, Riccardo De
Field, Laurence
Giovannozzi, Massimo
Hermes, Pascal
Høimyr, Nils
Kaltchev, Dobrin
Karastathis, Nikos
Luzzi, Cinzia
Maclean, Ewen
McIntosh, Eric
Mereghetti, Alessio
Molson, James
Nosochkov, Yuri
Pieloni, Tatiana
Reid, Ivan D.
Rivkin, Lenny
Segal, Ben
Sjobak, Kyrre
Skands, Peter
Tambasco, Claudia
Veken, Frederik Van der
Zacharov, Igor
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10.1515/eng-2017-0042
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412141634539.313811952107
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:25 AM CEST
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Associated
- Barranco, Javier
- Cai, Yunhai
- Cameron, David
- Crouch, Matthew
- Maria, Riccardo De
- Field, Laurence
- Giovannozzi, Massimo
- Hermes, Pascal
- Høimyr, Nils
- Kaltchev, Dobrin
- Karastathis, Nikos
- Luzzi, Cinzia
- Maclean, Ewen
- McIntosh, Eric
- Mereghetti, Alessio
- Molson, James
- Nosochkov, Yuri
- Pieloni, Tatiana
- Reid, Ivan D.
- Rivkin, Lenny
- Segal, Ben
- Sjobak, Kyrre
- Skands, Peter
- Tambasco, Claudia
- Veken, Frederik Van der
- Zacharov, Igor
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