The public launch in August of a new application for CERN's volunteer-computing platform LHC@home produced an overwhelming response. The application Test4Theory, which runs Monte Carlo simulations of events in the LHC, was announced in a CERN press release on 8 August. Within three days, the number of registered volunteers swelled from a few hundred to nearly 8000. The application joins SixTrack, an accelerator beam-dynamics tool that has been used for LHC machine studies at CERN since 2004 and is now being prepared and extended in collaboration with the Ecole polytechnique federate de Lausanne for studies of the LHC and its upgrade.
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