ATLAS@Home: Harnessing Volunteer Computing for HEP

21st International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics

物理学;计算机科学

Adam-Bourdarios, C.^1 ; Cameron, D.^2 ; Filipi, A.^3 ; Lancon, E.^4 ; Wu, W.^5

Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéraire, BP 34, Orsay Cedex

F-91898, France^1

Department of Physics, University of Oslo, P.b. 1048, Blindern Oslo

N-0316, Norway^2

Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, Ljubljana

1000, Slovenia^3

CEA Irfu/SPP, Gif/Yvette Cedex

91191, France^4

Computer Center, Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, 19B Yuquan Road, Beijing

100049, China^5

关键词: ATLAS detectors;    Computing resource;    CPU cycles;    Scientific fields;    Volunteer computing;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/664/2/022009/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/664/2/022009

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

A recent common theme among HEP computing is exploitation of opportunistic resources in order to provide the maximum statistics possible for Monte Carlo simulation. Volunteer computing has been used over the last few years in many other scientific fields and by CERN itself to run simulations of the LHC beams. The ATLAS@. Home project was started to allow volunteers to run simulations of collisions in the ATLAS detector. So far many thousands of members of the public have signed up to contribute their spare CPU cycles for ATLAS, and there is potential for volunteer computing to provide a significant fraction of ATLAS computing resources. Here we describe the design of the project, the lessons learned so far and the future plans.