LHC@home

As the turn-up of the LHC is imminent now, are there any plans to use the help of the LHC@Home Community for doing the real science on LHC?

No. As previously posted by the admin (these quotes have been snipped, but you get the general idea).

We have a second project it's called the Grid. The LHC's computing needs are being fulfilled by that IF we can get something ported to BOINC we will but I reiterate we have no money. Also it's not just the download are you all willing to have large, hard drives, massive broadband connections and run only Scientific Linux (CERN edition) and not use your machines for anything else?

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However this would require a person to port the software from the current Grid setup to BOINC and for the Grid software to be actually portable. Not only do we not have this person (see the money issue above) we have also been told that there is no way the applications the Grid runs are lightweight enough to be ported to BOINC. We keep prodding and asking about simulation applications/other experiments etc but nothing so far.

Hope this helps

Michael

All 3 posts before this is quite old.

So is this still the case ?
(That there is no work units around for all users to get yet)

Yes. Although the work supply has been much larger the past few months, it is still intermittent. At this time there is no work available.