Editing LHC@home (section)

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{{Short description|Volunteer computing project researching particle simulations for LHC development}}

{{Infobox distributed computing project
| logo                   = LHC@home logo.png
|screenshot=LHC@home.gif|screenshot_alt=LHC@home screensaver|screenshot caption=LHC@home screensaver
| developer              =
| released               = SixTrack: 1&nbsp;September&nbsp;2004<br>Test4Theory: 1&nbsp;August&nbsp;2011
| latest release version =
| operating system       = [[Cross-platform]]
| platform               = [[BOINC]]
| status                 = Active
| license                =
| as of                  = September 2024
| performance            = <!-- If you update these numbers, please update the lead (below) as well. -->52&nbsp;[[FLOPS|TFLOPS]]{{r|LHCSTATUS}}
| active users           = 1,260{{r|LHCSTATUS}}
| total users            = 178,244{{r|LHCSTATUS}}
| active hosts           = 3,633{{r|LHCSTATUS}}
| total hosts            = 577,548{{r|LHCSTATUS}}
| website                = {{Official URL}}
}}

'''LHC@home''' is a [[volunteer computing]] project researching [[particle physics]] that uses the [[Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing]] (BOINC) platform.<ref name="BOINC projects list">{{cite web |title=BOINC projects list |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php |access-date=30 April 2020 |archive-date=3 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103072445/https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php |url-status=live }}</ref> The project's computing power is utilized by physicists at [[CERN]] in support of the [[Large Hadron Collider]] and other experimental particle accelerators.<ref name="BOINC portal">{{cite web |title=LHC@home |url=https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ |website=LHCAtHome.CERN.ch |publisher=CERN |access-date=23 December 2020 |archive-date=13 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213215414/https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The project is run with the help of over 1,260<!-- If you update these numbers, please update the infobox (above) as well. --> active volunteer users contributing more than 3,000 computers processing at a combined 52&nbsp;[[FLOPS|teraFLOPS]] {{As of|2024|09|lc=on}}.<ref name="LHCSTATUS">{{cite web|title=Server Status|url=https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/server_status.php|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903074306/https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/server_status.php|archive-date=3 September 2024|access-date=23 September 2024|website=LHCAtHome.CERN.ch |publisher=[[CERN]]}}</ref> The project is [[cross-platform]], and runs on a variety of [[computer hardware]] configurations.