MASSIVE TRACKING ON HETEROGENEOUS PLATFORMS
E. McIntosh, F. Schmidt · 2006
The LHC@home project uses public resource computing to simulate circulating protons in the future Large Hadron Collider (LHC). As the motion of the simulated particles may become chaotic, checking the integrity of the computation distributed over a heterogeneous network requires totally identical floating–point behaviour, regardless of the type of computers used. This paper reviews the problems encountered and the practical solutions.