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{{Short description|BOINC based volunteer computing project Spinhenge@Home}}
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'''Spinhenge@home'''<ref>{{Cite journal |title=APS -75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of APS - Event - QMC Goes BOINC: Using Public Resource Computing to Perform Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations |url=https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/SES08/Event/92028 |journal=Bulletin of the American Physical Society |publisher=American Physical Society |volume=53 |issue=13 |access-date=2022-09-05 |archive-date=2022-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814215157/https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/SES08/Event/92028 |url-status=live }}</ref> was a [[volunteer computing]] project on the [[BOINC]] platform, which performs extensive numerical simulations concerning the physical characteristics of magnetic molecules. It is a project of the [[Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences]], Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in cooperation with the [[University of Osnabrück]] and [[Ames Laboratory]].<ref>{{Cite journal |title=APS -76th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of APS - Event - How to use 100,000 PCs for studying magnetism |url=https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/SES09/Event/112819 |journal=Bulletin of the American Physical Society |publisher=American Physical Society |volume=54|issue=16 }}</ref>

The project began [[Development stage#Beta|beta testing]] on September 1, 2006, and used the Metropolis [[Monte Carlo method|Monte Carlo algorithm]] to calculate and simulate [[Spin (physics)|spin]] dynamics in [[Nanotechnology|nanoscale]] [[Single-molecule magnet|molecular magnet]]s.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Schröder |first1=Christian |last2=Prozorov |first2=Ruslan |last3=Kögerler |first3=Paul |last4=Vannette |first4=Matthew D. |last5=Fang |first5=Xikui |last6=Luban |first6=Marshall |last7=Matsuo |first7=Akira |last8=Kindo |first8=Koichi |last9=Müller |first9=Achim |last10=Todea |first10=Ana Maria |date=2008-06-04 |title=Multiple nearest-neighbor exchange model for the frustrated magnetic molecules Mo72Fe30 and Mo72Cr30 |journal=Physical Review B |volume=77 |issue=22 |pages=224409 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.77.224409 |arxiv=0801.2065 |s2cid=118422523 |issn=1098-0121}}</ref>

On September 28, 2011, a hiatus was announced while the project team reviewed results and upgraded hardware.  As of July 10, 2022 the hiatus continues and it is likely that the project has been closed down permanently.

==See also==
* [[Spintronics]]
* [[BOINC]]
* [[List of volunteer computing projects]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060716151930/http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/ Project Website]
*{{YouTube|id=d-fafmtqE74|title=Spinhenge@home screensaver video}}
*[https://archive.today/20120723020143/http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/spin_science.php More Information about Spinhenge@Home]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061014175457/http://www.boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=spinhenge Project Statistics at BOINCStats]

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