Cern taps home PCs for virtual atom smashing. Cern has launched a virtual atom-smasher for home computers, which allows people to contribute to fundamental physics research from the Large Hadron Collider.
The LHC@home 2.0 platform, launched in beta, uses virtual machines on volunteers' computers to simulate atomic particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider. Image credit: Cern website.
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