QMC @ home
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| Area: | chemistry |
| Target: | Further development of the quantum Monte Carlo method |
| Operator: | Ulm University / Ulm |
| Country: | Germany |
| Platform: | BOINC |
| Website: | http://qmcathome.org |
| Project status | |
| Status: | Will be continued by the University of Ulm |
| Start: | December 2005 |
| The End: | Completed in Münster since the end of 2012, now continued in Ulm. |
QMC @ home ( Q uantum M onte C arlo at home, German Quantum Monte Carlo at home ) was initially a project of distributed computing at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and is being continued by the University of Ulm .
The aim of the project is to test the quantum Monte Carlo method and to further develop it for use in quantum chemistry in order to better predict the structure and reactivity of molecules . Quantum Monte Carlo is a method for solving the Schrödinger equation in the simulation of quantum mechanical systems using Monte Carlo simulations .
At the end of January 2007, the calculation of DNA base pairs was completed. This was followed by the investigation of alkane folding as a fundamental quantum model for the folding processes of molecules.
QMC @ home uses the BOINC infrastructure .