  Project SETI@HOME has proven to be one of the biggest successes of
distributed computing during the last years. With a quite simple approach SETI
manages to process large volumes of data using a vast amount of distributed
computer power.
  To extend the generic usage of this kind of distributed computing tools,
BOINC is being developed. In this paper we propose HEP@HOME, a BOINC version
tailored to the specific requirements of the High Energy Physics (HEP)
community.
  The HEP@HOME will be able to process large amounts of data using virtually
unlimited computing power, as BOINC does, and it should be able to work
according to HEP specifications. In HEP the amounts of data to be analyzed or
reconstructed are of central importance. Therefore, one of the design
principles of this tool is to avoid data transfer. This will allow scientists
to run their analysis applications and taking advantage of a large number of
CPUs. This tool also satisfies other important requirements in HEP, namely,
security, fault-tolerance and monitoring.
