QMC@Home

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QMC@Home was a volunteer computing project for the BOINC client aimed at further developing and testing Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) for use in quantum chemistry.{{Cite journal |last1=Korth |first1=Martin |last2=Lüchow |first2=Arne |last3=Grimme |first3=Stefan |title=Toward the Exact Solution of the Electronic Schrödinger Equation for Noncovalent Molecular Interactions: Worldwide Distributed Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations |doi=10.1021/jp077592t |journal=J. Phys. Chem. A |volume=112 |issue=10 |pages=2104–2109|year=2008|pmid=18201073 |bibcode=2008JPCA..112.2104K }} It is hosted by the University of Münster with participation by the Cavendish Laboratory. QMC@Home allows volunteers from around the world to donate idle computer cycles to help calculate molecular geometry using Diffusion Monte Carlo.

The project is developing a new application using density functional theory.

The project began its Beta testing on 23 May 2006. {{As of|2010|02|}}, QMC@Home has about 7,500 active participants from 102 countries, contributing about 5 teraFLOPS of computation power.{{citation |url=http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=qmc |title=Detailed user, host, team and country statistics with graphs for BOINC |access-date=2010-02-13 |work=boincstats.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210123416/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=qmc |archive-date=2010-02-10 }}