2017
DOI: 10.1515/eng-2017-0042
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LHC@Home: a BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN

Abstract: 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 rela… Show more

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“…Two main approaches can be considered to reduce the CPU time needed. The first exploits the fact that in the absence of mutual interactions between the charged particle one can perform a trivial parallelization on the initial conditions [22] or use a distributed computing system to boost the available CPU time [23]. The second approach attempts to reduce the number of turns simulated thanks to the possibility of devising scaling laws of DA as a function of the number of turns.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Two main approaches can be considered to reduce the CPU time needed. The first exploits the fact that in the absence of mutual interactions between the charged particle one can perform a trivial parallelization on the initial conditions [22] or use a distributed computing system to boost the available CPU time [23]. The second approach attempts to reduce the number of turns simulated thanks to the possibility of devising scaling laws of DA as a function of the number of turns.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A massive campaign of numerical simulations aimed at studying all experimental machine configurations has been carried out using the volunteer-based computing platform LHC@home (see Ref. [44] and references therein). As a result, DðNÞ is shown in Fig.…”
Section: B Comparison With Numerical Simulationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The first prototype of the Beauty@Home project was created in 2013 [24] to help address LHCb's growing need for computing power by profiting from volunteer computing resources. This was initially restricted to members of the LHCb Virtual Organisation as a trusted x509 credential was required on the resource to contact the DIRAC system [25] for operations such as job matching, status updates and data management operations.…”
Section: Lhcbmentioning
confidence: 99%