LHC@home
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LHC@home is a volunteer distributed computing project that needs your help to advance Particle and Accelerator Physics.

Wikipedia page
Goal
- Help build and maintain The Large Hadron Collider
- Enable physicists to compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and provide answers to questions about the Universe.
Methods
- The classic LHC@home application Sixtrack, are simulations of accelerator physics, and help researchers at CERN to build and improve the LHC.
Other LHC@home simulations that utilize virtualization to run applications for Theory and experiment simulations
Project team / Sponsors
CERN