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ATLAS Slides
Report number	ATL-SOFT-SLIDE-2016-637
Title	Volunteer Computing Experience with ATLAS@Home
Author(s)	Cameron, David (University of Oslo) ; Filipcic, Andrej (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)) ; Bourdarios, Claire (LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, Universite Paris-Saclay) ; Lan\c con, Eric (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)) ; Wu, Wenjing (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Corporate author(s)	The ATLAS collaboration
Collaboration	ATLAS Collaboration
Submitted to	22nd International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, CHEP 2016, San Francisco, Usa, 10 - 14 Oct 2016
Submitted by	[email protected] on 18 Sep 2016
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; ATLAS
Abstract	ATLAS@Home is a volunteer computing project which allows the public to contribute to computing for the ATLAS experiment through their home or office computers. The project has grown continuously since its creation in mid-2014 and now counts almost 100,000 volunteers. The combined volunteers' resources make up a sizable fraction of overall resources for ATLAS simulation. This paper takes stock of the experience gained so far and describes the next steps in the evolution of the project. These improvements include running natively on Linux to ease the deployment on for example university clusters, using multiple cores inside one job to reduce the memory requirements and running different types of workload such as event generation. In addition to technical details the success of ATLAS@Home as an outreach tool is evaluated.