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Virtual Machines & Volunteer Computing
Virtual machines and volunteer computing platforms like BOINC allow researchers to utilize idle computing resources from home PCs. Projects like LHC@Home and Test4Theory have harnessed thousands of PCs through BOINC, generating CPU years worth of computing. While running actual LHC experiments is challenging due to code porting and library issues, Test4Theory demonstrates BOINC's ability to run physics simulations. It has engaged over 4,500 users who have generated over 230 billion simulation events. BOINC supports virtualization which provides custom execution environments and security while enabling multi-core processing and development on a single platform. Community feedback is also important for improving volunteer computing projects.
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- 6. The Challenge Why don'tyou run "real" LHC physics on BOINC?
- 7. The Challenge Why don'tyou run "real" LHC physics on BOINC?
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- 10. Problems: Large & complexlibraries
- 11. Problems: Experiments workflow ● Jobsshould be sent using CERN distribution systems. ● Volunteer computing resources should be: ○ managed and ○ trustful
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- 14. Test4Theory About 4500 activeusers Photo by Kevin McGarr http://flic.kr/p/aNVsh License: (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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- 16. Test4Theory More than 230billion events generated
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- 33. Summary ● BOINC +Virtualization = Custom execution environments ○ Multi-core support ○ Virtualization sandbox (possible to encrypt virtual hard disk!) ○ Develop, maintain and work in one platform. ○ Support out of the box most popular PC OSes ● The community is very important
- 34. Thank you! teleyinex@gmail.com +teleyinex @teleyinex Daniel Lombraña González License Icons by Gnome except Logos