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LHC@home moved to the UK a few months ago, and despite a few initial teething problems, the scientists
are very happy with the service being provided by us and by you. There will be more work coming from
SixTrack in the near future and until the LHC starts up sometime in 2008. Indeed, even after it turns
on there will be a demand to keep modeling its behavior and comparing with reality.


We have also been in talks with two different groups involved in the LHC experiments about porting
their work to BOINC so it can be run under the
LHC@home banner. One you may have heard about is Garfield which has been in the pipeline for a while
but is now very close to running on LHC@home (the more eagle-eyed volunteers will have seen it is
installed and on the Applications page). The other is simulating particle collisions for the ATLAS
experiment, one of the four major LHC experiments. This is a good deal more ambitious, and will
probably take a while before it is released to volunteers, but we are getting a lot of interest from
the CPU-hungry physicists at ATLAS for this.



All of these factors combined mean that we have decided to officially
launch LHC@home in the UK today in a press release. We hope that this
brings in some new volunteers and that you welcome them to the community. I know there are some issues
to be addressed on the server and Alex and I are working hard on this, but we are happy that the
most important aspect of the project is working, namely that jobs are getting processed and the
scientists are getting their science done. Thanks to many of you for helping us learn how to manage a
volunteer computing experiment, and looking forward to fun times ahead!

Thanks for sticking around,
Neasan.

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Source: LHC@home
BOINC project LHC@home: Main page News
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KWSN DC News reporter reporting from inside the server.