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LHC@home is a volunteer computing project researching particle physics that uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. The project's computing power is utilized by physicists at CERN in support of the Large Hadron Collider and other experimental particle accelerators.

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[email protected]
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SixTrack: 1 September 2004Test4Theory: 1 August 2011
Distributed computing project.operating system
Cross-platform
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BOINC
Distributed computing project.status
Active
Distributed computing project.as of
September 2024
Distributed computing project.performance
52 TFLOPS
Distributed computing project.active users
1,260
Distributed computing project.total users
178,244
Distributed computing project.active hosts
3,633
Distributed computing project.total hosts
577,548

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Instance of
software
Developer
CERN
Platform
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Official website
lhcathome.cern.ch
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depends on software
Q209563
inception
2004-09-29
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LHC@home
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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • Applications
  • Atlas
  • Beauty
  • CMS
  • SixTrack
  • Test4Theory
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links
  • Applications

LHC@home is a volunteer computing project researching particle physics that uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. The project's computing power is utilized by physicists at CERN in support of the Large Hadron Collider and other experimental particle accelerators.

The project is run with the help of over 1,260 active volunteer users contributing more than 3,000 computers processing at a combined 52 teraFLOPS . The project is cross-platform, and runs on a variety of computer hardware configurations.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LHC@home” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.