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SLAC Publication: SLAC-PUB-17226
SLAC Release Date: February 5, 2018
LHC@Home: a BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN
Giovannozzi, Massimo.
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 challenge... Show Full 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 with 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, allowing
for improving the understanding of charged particle dynamics in the
CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its future upgrades. The
main results are highlighted in this paper. Show Partial Abstract
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