BOINC project; Einstein@Home

Einstein@Home

More information, help and support is avalable for this project on the the website; www.irelandboinc.com

This project is similar in nature to science projects like SETI@home, Rosetta@home, ClimatePrediction.net and World Community Grid. But all BOINC projects are completely independent from each other, they just use the same software to carry out the computation.

About Einstein@Home

Einstein@Home is a project developed to search data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and from the GEO 600 gravitational wave observatory in Germany for signals coming from extremely dense, rapidly rotating stars. Such sources are believed to be either quark stars or neutron stars, and a subclass of these are already observed by conventional means as pulsars or X-ray emitting celestial objects. Scientists believe that some of these compact stars may not be perfectly spherical, and if so, they should emit characteristic gravitational waves, which LIGO and GEO 600 may begin to detect in coming months.

Bruce Allen of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's (UWM) LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) group is leading the development of the Einstein@Home project.

Einstein@Home is one, small part of the LSC scientific program. It is being set up as a distributed computing project, which means that it relies on computer time donated by private computer users like you to search for gravity wave-emitting compact stars.

This is a well established project running for several years. The project generally has a good stream of work avalable for you to crunch!

Getting started and joining team Ireland

You can use the following details to get started on this project.

Einstein@Home. Project URL; einstein.phys.uwm.edu/

Support for Irish participants.

Support and information for Irish participants in this project, and all BOINC science projects is provided on the Irelandboinc.com website; www.irelandboinc.com

Please do join team Ireland on this science project and any BOINC project you run.

Spread the word!

If you know others, friends or family that would be interested in this project, send them a link to this message and get them involved!

Thank you, and enjoy the science!
John.

{EDIT} Bruce Allen, Director of Einstein@home and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hanover Germany and a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin is a member of team Ireland . I met him in Geneva at a conference and he joined team Ireland just for a bit of fun!! :lol: :lol: {?EDIT}

The Einstein@Home project has started a new search for binary radio pulsars in data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. This will run in parallel with the existing search for gravitational waves from rapidly-spinning neutron stars. Please see this press release for more information. A German translation is also available.

News item; einstein.phys.uwm.edu/all_news.php#164

Einstein@home; einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
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John.