LHC@home reloaded and here to help
Tue 19 Aug 2008
Almost a year ago the LHC@home service officially moved to the UK. In that time the service has been quietly helping to configure the LHC's super magnets and even with LHC turn on imminent it isn't quite finished yet. With over 40,000 work hungry users the LHC@home team would like to get more applications running on the servers.
The team at Queen Mary, University of London who run the service have just upgraded the code underpinning the whole system and are eager to get some more work for the patient volunteers, good many of whom have been with the project from the very beginning.
LHC@home has been running the SixTrack executable since the very start of the project. This work has helped with the alignment of the magnets in the LHC tunnels and this work will not cease once the LHC is operational. SixTrack is used by various teams across the world and it is hoped that scientists at Brookhaven will soon be contributing work to the system once they have tweaked the executable that LHC@home uses. One project that has had a long gestation period that is hoped to begin soon is Garfield. This application will simulate and understand the behaviour of gas-based detectors and will look at all the detectors working on the LHC.
These sources of work are just not enough for the volunteers and LHC@home wants your help to generate more work. The basic requirements is a particle physics application with a small input, intensive CPU usage and a small output. If you think you have a suitable project please contact Neasan O'Neill at n.oneill@qmul.ac.uk
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