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Accelerate physics with your own computer

In parallel to a maybe fruitless or at least extremely difficult search for a theory that could predict chaotic motion, accelerator physicists at CERN try to design and understand the machine down to the finest detail, and then use computer models to simulate the protons' motion over and over and over again, looking for any signs of instability.
The physicists know the machine well; the position, tilt and imperfections of each of the LHC's 1232 dipole magnets, used to curve the path of the beam, is known down to the submillimeter, says Massimo Giovannozzi, leader of the LHC Commissioning and Upgrade section of the  accelerator physics group at CERN. Never mind the fact that each dipole magnet is 15 metres long and weighs 35 tonnes.
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The Large Hadron Collider team will be tapping into the collective computing power of the public to help it simulate particle physics experiments.
Among other pursuits, the effort could help uncover the Higgs boson.
The effort, dubbed LHC@home 2.0, is a vastly updated version of a 2004 effort to enlist the public's computers to simulate beams of protons.
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Virtual atom smasher in LHC@Home 2.0

The developers hope LHC@Home 2.0 will be used for several research projects in the future. The first project, called Test4Theory, has been in the alpha testing phase since October 2010, and now has more than 100 volunteers just like De Bari. Even at this early stage, volunteers have already provided about 10% of the total computing resources currently available to theoretical physicists at CERN according to Anton Karneyeu, one of the developers on the project who also works on the CMS experiment.
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