The Citizen Cyberscience Centre (CCC) is an organization for volunteer computing

Volunteer computing

Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which computer owners donate their computing resources to one or more "projects".-History:...

 formed as a parterneship between CERN

CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...

, UNITAR

United Nations Institute for Training and Research

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research was established in 1965 following a "for the training of personnel, particularly from developing Member States, for administrative and operational assignments with the United Nations and the specialized agencies, both at Headquarters and in...

, and the University of Geneva

University of Geneva

The University of Geneva is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland.It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin, as a theological seminary and law school. It remained focused on theology until the 17th century, when it became a center for Enlightenment scholarship. In 1873, it...

.

In August 2011 a new version of the BOINC-based volunteer computing project LHC@home

LHC@home

LHC@home is a distributed computing project for particle physics on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing platform. LHC@home consists of two applications: SixTrack, which went live in September 2004, is used to upgrade and maintain the particle accelerator Large Hadron Collider ...

 began simulating the high-energy collisions of protons in CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature....

(LHC), with CCC's help.

The Citizen Cyberscience Centre is currently hosted at the UNITAR offices at CERN.