See Contact Us where you'll find links to the forums, the Q&A for each project, and a contact form if you're really stuck.
We have a great community that will try to help you.
You need a computer connected to the Internet with at least 512MB of RAM and 9GB of free hard disk space. It can run Windows, MacOSX or Linux.
To run any of our LHC@home applications, you will need to install BOINC.
For other applications than Sixtrack, you will also need to install VirtualBox.
For more information, please see our installation guide.
You will only have to provide a user name and an e-mail, nothing else is required. The information that is sent about your machine is the hardware specifications: CPU type, RAM and disk space, OS version, etc.
More details about the data that is processed is provided in our privacy notice.
If you decide to leave the project, you can delete the data associated to your account from the LHC@home server.
March 14 2018.
LHC@home's Theory application today passed the milestone of 4 TRILLION simulated events. This project, under its earlier name "Test4Theory", began production in 2011 and was the first BOINC project in the world to use Virtual Machine technology (based on CERN's CernVM system). The photo below, taken at the CERN Computing Centre, shows some of the people who are currently involved in the project: