LHC@home
Volunteer computing project researching particle simulations for LHC development / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[2] The project's computing power is utilized by physicists at CERN in support of the Large Hadron Collider and other experimental particle accelerators.[3]
Quick Facts Initial release, Development status ...
Initial release | SixTrack: 1 September 2004 Test4Theory: 1 August 2011 |
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Development status | Active |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Platform | BOINC |
As of | March 2023 |
Average performance | 61 TFLOPS[1] |
Active users | 5,467[1] |
Total users | 180,085[1] |
Active hosts | 10,105[1] |
Total hosts | 568,215[1] |
Website | lhcathome |
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The project is run with the help of over 5,400 active volunteer users contributing more than 10,000 computers processing at a combined 61 teraFLOPS as of March 2023[update].[1] The project is cross-platform, and runs on a variety of computer hardware configurations.