This is from an older post over at LHC@home:
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Originally Posted by Jukka Klem
LHC@home has delivered some very useful physics results from the recent beam-beam tracking campaign. The accelerator physicists say that these studies were possible only with LHC@home because it gives much more resources than what they had before. They would not even have imagined making such detailed studies without LHC@home. They could also scan the parameter space more carefully and obtain better results.
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Dr Klem also contributes other info of interest about the progress of the building of the LHC in the
short thread, which is a very good read.
It's my personal opinion that right now LHC@home is the BOINC project providing the best scientific "bang for the crunch." I mean, the Large Hadron Collider is a major facility and you and I are helping design it.
This doesn't mean necessarily that more people should join the project, it has enough crunchers to easily go through the studies they are doing, so much so that it is often out of work.
Einstein@Home is probably still the place where more resources are current most needed, since it is still grinding somewhat slowly through the S4 data, as mentioned by Wolverine previously.
But of course, no project has yet found a G-wave, cured cancer or malaria, calculated an orbit, or happened on an alien. It may indeed take one of the above to give Distributed Computing a lift from the doldrums it seems to be in.
But it is nice to hear that at least the LHC@home project has contributed in a concrete way to scientific progress.