SLinCA@Home: Advancing Scientific Research through Distributed Computing

SLinCA@Home (Scaling Laws in Cluster Aggregation) is a Ukrainian volunteer computing project launched in 2010 by the G.V. Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics. It studies how particles aggregate to form clusters, with applications in materials science, biology, and urban modeling. Volunteers worldwide contribute idle computing power via platforms like BOINC and XtremWeb-HEP, enabling massive simulations that would be impossible on a single machine. By 2011, over 2,000 volunteers from 39 countries were participating, collectively reaching up to 1.5 teraFLOPS.

The project demonstrates how distributed computing can advance scientific research and uncover universal aggregation laws efficiently.

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