Extending CERN computing to volunteers - LHC@home consolidation and outlook

LHC@home has provided computing capacity for simulations under BOINC since 2005. Following the introduction of virtualisation with BOINC to run HEP Linux software in a virtual machine on volunteer desktops, initially started on test BOINC projects, like Test4Theory and ATLAS@home, all CERN applicati...

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Main Authors: Cameron David, Field Laurence, Giannakis Nikolas, Høimyr Nils
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2019-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2019/19/epjconf_chep2018_03016.pdf