Spinhenge@Home

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A BOINC distributed computing project

Spinhenge@home is a distributed computing project for the BOINC client. It is a project of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

The project began beta testing on September 1, 2006. This project use the Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm to calculate and simulate spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets.

1 Introduction
2 Who benefits from this project?
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Introduction

For more than 20 years classical spin dynamics simulational methods have proven to be a very useful tool to examine the temperature dependent magnetic properties of microscopic and mesoscopic spin arrangements. With the help of these techniques one is immediately able to calculate a wide variety of important experimentally accessible thermodynamic properties for all kinds of magnetic structures though only within a classical picture. Nevertheless, as long as a full quantum mechanically treatment is not available these calculations represent the only way to achieve any insight into the underlying physics for large structures.

[edit] Who benefits from this project?

In all industrial nations the nano-technology is being celebrated as one of the key technologies of the 21st century. Particularly with regard to future electronics, pioneering innovations are expected. Nano-technology lives from the vision to be able to control matter specifically at the atomic level. While this is in general still a pipe-dream, these processes meanwhile attained a degree of quality which permits almost without limitation but with surprising systematic the creation of any magnetic molecules within the scope of "chemical engineering". By means of these magnetic molecules new nano-magnetic applications, as highly integrated memory modules or tiny magnetic switches will be developed in the future. Furthermore biotechnological and medical applications (e.g. local tumor chemotherapy) are aimed to achieve. In the context of this project in co-operation with the universities Osnabrück and Bielefeld and the Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, extensive numeric simulations concerning the physical characteristics of magnetic molecules are processed. Therewith the subject is especially to discover highly promising structures, who could, regarding their new characteristics serve the chemists quasi as samples to synthesize analogical new molecules. That way, recently a structure could be found, which constitutes a tiny magnetic switch.