Einstein@home

[Grendel]

Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.

After several months of testing, we are now 'throwing open the doors' for general participation. If you would like to take part, please use the Create account link to create an account, and follow the instructions. Einstein@home is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X computers.

This first production run of Einstein@home carries out a search for pulsars over the entire sky, using the most sensitive 600 hours of data from LIGO's third science run, S3.

Bruce Allen, Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Einstein@home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Einstein@home

I've been an active participator in distributed computing for a long time (e.g. Seti@home, genefolding, climateprediction.net...etc.). You are providing a service to science in general by letting them us the computing power that is being wasted when your system is idle. This does not slow down your system while your using it. The application only runs (unless you tell it to run all the time) when your system is idle. I've set up a team called SC Roadkill @ PBJUNIE.COM for Einstein@home if you would like to join. Tim Dake of Paintball Charleston quite awhile ago set up a Paintball Charleston team for Seti@home. I encourage everyone to explore distributed computing and find a topic you are interested in and help out.

Participate in scientific research

If you own a computer (Windows, Mac, Linux or Unix) you can help scientific research projects in many areas:

Climateprediction.net: study climate change

Einstein@home: search for gravitational signals coming from pulsars

LHC@home: improve the design of the CERN LHC particle accelerator

Predictor@home: investigate protein-related diseases

SETI@home: Look for radio evidence of extraterrestrial life

To participate in a project:
1) Visit the project's web site and create an account.
2) Download and run BOINC software.
You can participate in any or all projects -- the choice is up to you. You control the percentage of your computing power that goes to each project. If you participate in several projects, your computer will be busy even when one project has no work.



Here are some other Links to associated Web Sites:

Seti@home

BOINC Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

[DeepFreeze]

Looks like I will be changing things over from my seti run. It seems the seti team has dwindled over the past year. Count me in sometime this weekend. BTW, it is BOINC vice BONIC....lol

[Junkie]

I've been running SETI since you guys first started talking about it a year ago. Time to switch!

[Grendel]

You can still run SETI just use the Boinc version Skeeter already set up a new team. I run SETI, Einstein@home and Climateprediction on several machines and my main machine all 3.

[Grendel]

Originally Posted by DeepFreeze

Looks like I will be changing things over from my seti run. It seems the seti team has dwindled over the past year. Count me in sometime this weekend. BTW, it is BOINC vice BONIC....lol

What are you talking about!!! :icon16:

[Skeeter]

The SETI team that we set up a few years ago really kicked A$$ for a while. When they stopped updating the SETI servers, I switched over to BOINC, without much luck. Had some issues with the install on my laptop, so I didn't push the issue and backed out. I still have one slow laptop that spins the seti-client and generates 2-3 work units per day, but they don't show up on the team page (that was most of the fun)...

I'll jump into "Einstein" sometime in the next few days. How do they tally work units or flops? Think any other paintball groups are up for a friendly challenge?

[Pumpster]

Ok i have that set up, i will add it to my server and this program should run beautifully on my comp. Its what its basically designed for..

I use 64 bit processor its designed to be a number cruncher. (if anyone is intrested post and i can go into the difference and blah blah blah)