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LHC@Home: a BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN
- Barranco, Javier Particle Accelerator Physics Laboratory, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)1015Lausanne, Switzerland
- Cai, Yunhai SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
- Cameron, David University of Oslo, Postboks 1048 Blindern N-0316Oslo, Norway
- Crouch, Matthew CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Maria, Riccardo De CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Field, Laurence CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Giovannozzi, Massimo CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Hermes, Pascal CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Høimyr, Nils CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Kaltchev, Dobrin TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., CanadaV6T 2A3
- Karastathis, Nikos CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Luzzi, Cinzia CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Maclean, Ewen CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- McIntosh, Eric CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Mereghetti, Alessio CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Molson, James LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
- Nosochkov, Yuri SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
- Pieloni, Tatiana Particle Accelerator Physics Laboratory, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)1015Lausanne, Switzerland
- Reid, Ivan D. Brunel University, London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK
- Rivkin, Lenny Particle Accelerator Physics Laboratory, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)1015Lausanne, Switzerland
- Segal, Ben CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Sjobak, Kyrre CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Skands, Peter School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University, VIC-3800, Melbourne, Australia
- Tambasco, Claudia Particle Accelerator Physics Laboratory, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)1015Lausanne, Switzerland
- Veken, Frederik Van der CERN, 1211Geneva, Switzerland
- Zacharov, Igor Particle Accelerator Physics Laboratory, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)1015Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Open Engineering. - Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 2017, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 379-393
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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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- DOI 10.1515/eng-2017-0042
- ISSN 2391-5439
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- https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/25800
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