LHC@Home: A BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN

Javier Barranco; Yunhai Cai; David Cameron; Matthew Crouch; Riccardo De Maria; Laurence Field; Massimo Giovannozzi; Pascal Hermes; Nils Høimyr; Dobrin Kaltchev; Nikos Karastathis; Cinzia Luzzi; Ewen Maclean; Eric McIntosh; Alessio Mereghetti; James Molson; Yuri Nosochkov; Tatiana Pieloni; Ivan D. Reid; Lenny Rivkin; Ben Segal; Kyrre Sjobak; Peter Skands; Claudia Tambasco; Frederik Van Der Veken; Igor Zacharov

LHC@Home: A BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN

Javier Barranco, Yunhai Cai, David Cameron, Matthew Crouch, Riccardo De Maria, Laurence Field, Massimo Giovannozzi, Pascal Hermes, Nils Høimyr, Dobrin Kaltchev, Nikos Karastathis, Cinzia Luzzi, Ewen Maclean, Eric McIntosh, Alessio Mereghetti, James Molson, Yuri Nosochkov, Tatiana Pieloni, Ivan D. Reid, Lenny RivkinBen Segal, Kyrre Sjobak, Peter Skands, Claudia Tambasco, Frederik Van Der Veken, Igor Zacharov

School of Physics and Astronomy

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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 with 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, allowing for improving the understanding of charged particle dynamics in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its future upgrades. The main results are highlighted in this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Third International Conference BOINC-based High Performance Computing
Subtitle of host publication	Fundamental Research and Development (BOINC:FAST 2017)
Editors	Evgeny Ivahsko, Alexander Rumyantsev
Publisher	CEUR-WS
Pages	15-26
Number of pages	12
Volume	1973
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017
Event	International Conference BOINC-Based High Performance Computing: Fundamental Research and Development - Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation Duration: 28 Aug 2017 → 1 Sept 2017 Conference number: 3rd http://boincfast.ru/index.php/main/about-conf/

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Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen * Lehrstuhl Informatik V
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

Conference

Conference	International Conference BOINC-Based High Performance Computing
Abbreviated title	BOINC:FAST 2017
Country/Territory	Russian Federation
City	Petrozavodsk
Period	28/08/17 → 1/09/17
Other	High performance computing is extremely important for modern fundamental and applied science. Desktop Grid technologies are used in scientific research together with clusters and GRID systems, while Volunteer Computing assist in breakthroughs in astronomy, biotechnology, fundamental physics and mathematics, and many other branches of science. However, unused potential of Desktop Grids is still quite high. The Third International Scientific Conference "BOINC-based High Performance Computing: Fundamental Research and Development" is devoted to studying potential of distributed Desktop Grid computing, exchange of experience in creation and support of fundamental and applied BOINC projects. Among other, reports concerning technologies of development of distributed applications, processing of data, mathematical modeling of Desktop Grid, fundamental and applied BOINC projects will be presented. The conference will take place from August 28 to September 01, 2017, in Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia. During the conference a meeting of the Russian Branch of "International Desktop Grid Federation" and a meeting with crunchers who participate in BOINC-projects will be organized. Conference proceedings will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (indexed in Scopus). To read about previous conferences BOINC:FAST see archives BOINC:FAST'2015 and BOINC:FAST'2013.
Internet address	http://boincfast.ru/index.php/main/about-conf/

Keywords

Beam dynamics
High energy physics
Particle accelerators
Volunteer computing

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Barranco, J., Cai, Y., Cameron, D., Crouch, M., De Maria, R., Field, L., Giovannozzi, M., Hermes, P., Høimyr, N., Kaltchev, D., Karastathis, N., Luzzi, C., Maclean, E., McIntosh, E., Mereghetti, A., Molson, J., Nosochkov, Y., Pieloni, T., Reid, I. D., ... Zacharov, I. (2017). LHC@Home: A BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN. In E. Ivahsko, & A. Rumyantsev (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference BOINC-based High Performance Computing: Fundamental Research and Development (BOINC:FAST 2017) (Vol. 1973, pp. 15-26). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1973/paper02.pdf

Barranco, Javier ; Cai, Yunhai ; Cameron, David et al. / LHC@Home : A BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN. Proceedings of the Third International Conference BOINC-based High Performance Computing: Fundamental Research and Development (BOINC:FAST 2017). editor / Evgeny Ivahsko ; Alexander Rumyantsev. Vol. 1973 CEUR-WS, 2017. pp. 15-26 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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Barranco, J, Cai, Y, Cameron, D, Crouch, M, De Maria, R, Field, L, Giovannozzi, M, Hermes, P, Høimyr, N, Kaltchev, D, Karastathis, N, Luzzi, C, Maclean, E, McIntosh, E, Mereghetti, A, Molson, J, Nosochkov, Y, Pieloni, T, Reid, ID, Rivkin, L, Segal, B, Sjobak, K, Skands, P, Tambasco, C, Van Der Veken, F & Zacharov, I 2017, LHC@Home: A BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN. in E Ivahsko & A Rumyantsev (eds), Proceedings of the Third International Conference BOINC-based High Performance Computing: Fundamental Research and Development (BOINC:FAST 2017). vol. 1973, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS, pp. 15-26, International Conference BOINC-Based High Performance Computing, Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation, 28/08/17. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1973/paper02.pdf>

LHC@Home: A BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN. / Barranco, Javier; Cai, Yunhai; Cameron, David et al.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference BOINC-based High Performance Computing: Fundamental Research and Development (BOINC:FAST 2017). ed. / Evgeny Ivahsko; Alexander Rumyantsev. Vol. 1973 CEUR-WS, 2017. p. 15-26 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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Barranco J, Cai Y, Cameron D, Crouch M, De Maria R, Field L et al. LHC@Home: A BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN. In Ivahsko E, Rumyantsev A, editors, Proceedings of the Third International Conference BOINC-based High Performance Computing: Fundamental Research and Development (BOINC:FAST 2017). Vol. 1973. CEUR-WS. 2017. p. 15-26. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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