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'''QMC@Home''' ('''Quantum Monte Carlo at Home''') was a [[volunteer computing]] project running on the [[Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing|BOINC]] platform, dedicated to developing and applying [[Quantum Monte Carlo]] (QMC) methods for use in [[quantum chemistry]]. Originally hosted at the [[University of Münster]], Germany, with participation from the [[Cavendish Laboratory]] at the University of Cambridge, the project allowed volunteers worldwide to donate idle computing cycles to help calculate the electronic structure and [[molecular geometry]] of small molecules.<ref name="wikipedia">{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QMC@Home |title=QMC@Home |website=Wikipedia |access-date=2026-06-12}}</ref> The project began beta testing on 23 May 2006 and ran until approximately 2014, leaving behind a meaningful scientific legacy in computational chemistry.

~~[[File:[email protected]|thumb|290px|The QMC@Home screensaver visualizing an adenine–thymine base pair calculation, one of the project's core research targets.]]~~

== Background and motivation ==

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=== A new application: QASINO ===

[[File:[email protected]|thumb|290px|The QMC@Home screensaver visualizing an adenine–thymine base pair calculation, one of the project's core research targets.]]

In March 2010, the project deployed a new application called '''QASINO''', expanding the range of calculations available to volunteers.<ref name="setigermany">{{cite web |url=https://www.seti-germany.de/wiki/QMC@HOME |title=QMC@HOME – SETI.Germany Wiki |date=2013-07-24 |access-date=2026-06-12}}</ref> The project also began exploring [[Density functional theory]] as a parallel computational approach.

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 '''QMC@Home''' ('''Quantum Monte Carlo at Home''') was a [[volunteer computing]] project running on the [[Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing|BOINC]] platform, dedicated to developing and applying [[Quantum Monte Carlo]] (QMC) methods for use in [[quantum chemistry]]. Originally hosted at the [[University of Münster]], Germany, with participation from the [[Cavendish Laboratory]] at the University of Cambridge, the project allowed volunteers worldwide to donate idle computing cycles to help calculate the electronic structure and [[molecular geometry]] of small molecules.<ref name="wikipedia">{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QMC@Home |title=QMC@Home |website=Wikipedia |access-date=2026-06-12}}</ref> The project began beta testing on 23 May 2006 and ran until approximately 2014, leaving behind a meaningful scientific legacy in computational chemistry.
-[[File:[email protected]|thumb|290px|The QMC@Home screensaver visualizing an adenine–thymine base pair calculation, one of the project's core research targets.]]
 == Background and motivation ==
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 === A new application: QASINO ===
+[[File:[email protected]|thumb|290px|The QMC@Home screensaver visualizing an adenine–thymine base pair calculation, one of the project's core research targets.]]
 In March 2010, the project deployed a new application called '''QASINO''', expanding the range of calculations available to volunteers.<ref name="setigermany">{{cite web |url=https://www.seti-germany.de/wiki/QMC@HOME |title=QMC@HOME – SETI.Germany Wiki |date=2013-07-24 |access-date=2026-06-12}}</ref> The project also began exploring [[Density functional theory]] as a parallel computational approach.