LHC@Home: a BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN
| Autor: | Massimo Giovannozzi, Ben Segal, D. Kaltchev, Kyrre Sjobak, Yuri Nosochkov, Cinzia Luzzi, Matthew Crouch, Nils Høimyr, Ivan Reid, David Cameron, Pascal Hermes, J. Barranco, Peter Skands, I. Zacharov, Nikos Karastathis, Ewen Maclean, Laurence Field, Frederik Van Der Veken, Tatiana Pieloni, Yunhai Cai, L Rivkin, Alessio Mereghetti, E. McIntosh, Claudia Tambasco, James Molson, Riccardo De Maria |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Service (systems architecture)
beam dynamics Environmental Engineering Computer science Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Aerospace Engineering 05.45.-a volunteer computing computer.software_genre 01 natural sciences high energy physics law.invention law 02.70.-c Volunteer computing 0103 physical sciences General Materials Science [INFO]Computer Science [cs] 07.05.kf Electrical and Electronic Engineering 010306 general physics Civil and Structural Engineering Accelerator physics Large Hadron Collider 010308 nuclear & particles physics LHC@home Mechanical Engineering Particle accelerator Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) particle accelerators Virtualization 29.20.-c Computing and Computers Systems engineering Physics::Accelerator Physics 07.05.tp TA1-2040 computer |
| Zdroj: | Open Eng. BOINC BOINC, Aug 2017, Petrozavodsk, Russia. pp.378-392, ⟨10.1515/eng-2017-0042⟩ Scopus-Elsevier Open Engineering, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 379-393 (2017) |
| DOI: | 10.1515/eng-2017-0042⟩ |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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